Career Area:
Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Job Description:
Caterpillar's Earthmoving products, spanning a wide swath of products that include Medium Track Type Tractors, Motor Graders, Medium Wheel Loaders and a deep portfolio of Paving Products that are a driving force in enabling our customers to be successful in the building a better world Fabrications manufacturing processes play a critical role in ensuring the high quality of these products that our customers require. If you are looking for an opportunity to leverage your knowledge of fabrications manufacturing processes and global collaboration skills to make a global impact on key products, this is a great opportunity for you as a Manufacturing Fabrications Project Engineer in our Earthmoving Division.
The position of Earthmoving Manufacturing Fabrications Project Engineer will serve as a liaison between the Medium Wheel Loader Large Structures product design engineering teams and Caterpillar internal manufacturing partners. This position will facilitate CPPD/ICT team to provide leadership to internal manufacturing partners to ensure early collaboration with manufacturing facilities, design engineering and suppliers where applicable on design for manufacturability, process efficiency and costs as well as adherence to APQP guidelines. This position will also be called upon to work with the PMO team to create project management plans and to lead the CPPD/ICT team to deliver on time. The position will lead conformance to internal APQP activities, drive common worldwide manufacturing processes, reduce deviations, and can lead projects to resolve fabrication quality issues resulting from process or design issues. This position can also be called upon to lead cross Earthmoving fabrication manufacturing related projects.
Specifically in this role you can expect to:
Lead Medium Wheel loader fabrication cross functional World Wide CPPD team to develop solutions that meet multiple objectives and balance safety, quality, velocity, and cost
Accountable to identify and set current and future, manufacturing target costs that are realistic and valid
Provide leadership and is the key communicator for Collaborative Product and Process Development
Ensure the development, analysis, and documentation of worldwide common process information for new product development, design and cost improvement, maintenance, make versus buy, and other special projects
Provide leadership that ensures trade off discussions early in the design process to balance performance, quality, velocity, and cost with focus on optimizing value
Launch and follow through on all APQP activities
Provide design for manufacturability consulting and coaching to the various engineering design teams
To be successful in this role, you must bring (Basic qualifications):
Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering or Mechanical Engineering (or related degree)
Experience and knowledge of manufacturing and fabrication processes - welding primarily
7 years in fabrications manufacturing process development, fabrications product design, or fabrication supplier development.
Previous experience in Worldwide CPPD activities
Top candidates will also bring:
Previous Medium Wheel Loader fabrication experience- manufacturing or product design
Previous cost modeling experience
Previous process fabrication simulation experience
Previous proven team leadership and demonstrated high levels of initiative and accountability
Good level of understanding of company policies and procedures related to manufacturing, and engineering.
Excellent interpersonal skills are required to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or persuade others inside and outside the department to take specific actions.
Relocation assistance is available for this position within the US to the Aurora, IL or North Little Rock, AR facilities
ISC is not available for this position
How we support you (Employee benefits)
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career including the potential to advance your career into operations leadership and other advanced manufacturing positions. We offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of a very generous yearly bonus. Additional benefits include paid vacations and paid holidays (Prorated based on hire date). Safety is a top priority at Caterpillar, we provide all necessary personal protective equipment: steel toe boots, safety glasses, hearing protection, uniform shirts, and pants.
The power of everyone
At Caterpillar, we believe that each person is unique and valued. We are committed to ensuring that our workplace is diverse and representative of the many customers we serve around the globe. Different perspectives help us achieve our best work and come together to form a high performing Caterpillar team that makes positive changes in the community where we live and work. To learn more about Caterpillar please visit: www.Caterpillar.com
Final details
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This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tide to a specific employer, such as an H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the United States which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/careers.
Relocation is available for this position.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
