Career Area:
Administrative Support
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs. Join us...Let's Do The Work!
Job Description:
This New Product Introduction (NPI) team leader role is on the Medium Vee platform team within Large Power Systems Division (LPSD), with responsibilities for NPI and other product improvement initiatives on the engines used in Track-Type Tractor and Drill applications. The role has integrated responsibilities between a system level engineer (L5) and NPI lead to allow the candidate to be the main liaison to the product group. The lead will be responsible to plan and coordinate resources across the organization to meet NPI deliverables, investigate and deliver product improvements for current offerings and maintain a strong trusted relationship with their perspective industry customers.
Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
Manages large NPI projects to ensure they are on time, within budget, and aligned with the product objectives, quality, and strategy.
Assists in prioritizing NPI projects based on enterprise impact and objectives.
Assembles the business case for project requests - program OPACC.
Identifies training needs for NPI team members and initiates NPI-related development opportunities.
Identifies cost containment opportunities, cost reduction ideas and projects.
Solves problems by determining the best course of action, within departmental guidelines, from many existing solutions.
Acts independently to determine the best way to complete job assignments in order to achieve the desired results.
Creates alignment and visibility to issues through frequent stakeholder updates and alignment sessions.
Monitors product quality metrics and identified areas of focus for continuous improvement.
Monitors and reports on key quality measures; sales volume, capital expenditures, and research and development
Create partnerships with internal customers, which may bridge across two or more work groups in a division.
Builds strong relationships with other departments, industry associations and outside organizations.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience of 6-9 years in engine or engine component development (design, manufacturing, validation, product support)
Strong organizational, planning and communication skills are critical as incumbent initiates communication with others outside immediate work group to work on new ideas or to counsel others, etc.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are essential (desire previous 6 Sigma, CPI, and/or NPI project experience).
Top Candidates Will Also Have Some of These:
The ability to demonstrate initiative and work with diverse groups to reach consensus
The ability to listen to others is important to the job, exhibit situational leadership, and be able to work to identify solutions to continue to move the team forward.
Strong internal customer focus with understanding of end use machine customers, especially experience working with Track-Type Tractor and Drill applications teams.
Understanding of engineering processes - such as PPAP, APQP, CPI, BIQ, AQE, NPI, Aftermarket, product support, etc.
Additional Information:
The location for this position is Mossville, IL, but Griffin, GA and Lafayette, IN will be considered
This position may require up to 20% travel
Domestic relocation is available for this position
This posting will close 06/03/2022 at 11:59pm
Employee benefit details:
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 a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details:
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This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O.As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers .
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