Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
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Job Summary:
At Caterpillar's Denison, TX Facility, we manufacture and assemble Surface Rock Drills. In this role as a Rotary Drill Product Value Stream Manager, you will report to the Vice President Product Management and will be primarily responsible for the machine life cycle value chain for the Rotary Drill product within the Tracked Products organization. As a member of the Tracked Products team, you will need to have a growth mindset, promote continuous improvement, and help build a defect-free culture. We have a fabulous team that does some of the most exciting work at Caterpillar, and we can't wait for you to join the team!
What you will do:
Gathering and analyzing client requirements and market trends; using this knowledge and technical expertise to develop the product strategy and objectives.
Overseeing the design, development, production, testing, and delivery of manufacturing products; ensuring they adhere to quality standards and other requirements.
Leveraging LEAN to drive quality at every step of the product introduction process and value chain including: monitoring design effectiveness, cost reliability, identifying problem areas, product enhancements and manufacturing readiness.
Collaborating across the end-to-end value chain (external & internal suppliers, facilities, transportation, supply chain, services and solutions) to support the customer throughout the product life cycle.
Degree Requirement:
Degree or equivalent experience desired
What Skills you will have:
Products and Services : Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Obtains information about product and service linkages with other products and services elsewhere in organization.
- Researches the target market and how the product and services are sold and delivered.
- Explains current status, delivery alternatives and announced updates to products and services.
- Summarizes key features of major products or services in own unit.
- Assesses own unit's product alternatives, costs, and pricing.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking : Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
- Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
- Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
- Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
- Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
- Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
Quality Orientation : Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques; ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Confronts root causes of problems wherever they exist.
- Eliminates unnecessary work and all non value-added activities.
- Uses objective quality criteria and data to drive decisions.
- Documents learnings regarding quality outcomes so that the data can be used for improvement.
- Surfaces quality problems whose root causes fall outside the group's responsibility.
Collaborating Globally : Knowledge of effective collaboration techniques and ability to build networks with people from different countries and cultures, think and work with them to bring positive impact and flourishing business results.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Evaluates different viewpoints and reconciles conflicting interests to achieve a collective understanding and a group mission.
- Provides optimum solutions for complex problems by using collective intelligence of colleagues' networks.
- Trains others on the new technologies or techniques used to facilitate group interactions and improve collaboration.
- Uses internal and external network of leaderships or experts to help achieve organizational and client goals.
- Facilitates group's thinking and brainstorming activities to collectively create and share ideas.
- Oversees a team collaboration to produce positive business results.
Team Management : Knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Brings projects to closure and ensures capture of what can be learned from the experience.
- Leads the definition of team mission and objectives for a variety of teams.
- Employs appropriate techniques for maintaining team enthusiasm, energy, and focus.
- Ensures that team members are on board, unified, and moving in the same direction.
- Communicates both within the team and to stakeholders.
- Learns and utilizes special talents and work styles of team members.
Value Engineering : Knowledge of tools and techniques for conducting value engineering; ability to use this knowledge to improve the value of a project at the lowest cost.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Assesses business needs and requirements to determine potential value improvement processes.
- Assists in evaluating value alternatives that provide the greatest value advantage to accomplish the required tasks.
- Conducts functional analysis to determine the importance and value of project functions.
- Documents the outcomes of different stages of the value analysis process.
- Uses Functional Analysis System Technique (FAST) diagrams and related techniques to determine the correlations between functions and the associated impact on costs.
Product Design - MFG : Knowledge of processes, approaches, tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Participates in the conception process of a manufacturing product vision.
- Collects and analyzes customer and market requirements, and generates reports.
- Utilizes design methods to implement the construction of a new design model.
- Uses automated tools to design or modify the design of a product.
- Assists in the testing and refinement of a new product design.
Product Development Life Cycle - MFG : Knowledge of the methodology and associated phases, activities and deliverables of product development life cycle in manufacturing organizations; ability to bring new or enhanced products to the marketplace.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Documents and generates reports on major phases, activities, checkpoints and deliverables.
- Participates in a specific phase or aspect of product development.
- Analyzes common issues and considerations for bringing a new product to marketplace.
- Works with developing features, functions, plans and schedules.
- Interprets product development plans and functional documentation.
Additional Information:
The primary location for this position is Denison, TX
Domestic relocation assistance is available
This position may require 25% travel
Sponsorship is not available
What you will get:
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides:
Competitive Base Salary
Annual incentive bonus plan*
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
401k savings plan
Health savings account (HSA)
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
Short and long-term disability coverage
Life Insurance
Paid parental leave
Healthy Lifestyle Programs
Employee Assistance Programs
Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)
*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.
Final details:
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Posting Dates:
July 8, 2024 - July 21, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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