Career Area:

Supply Chain and Logistics

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Our Product Support and Logistics Division (PSLD) is one of the most innovative divisions within Caterpillar. In PSLD, as within all of Caterpillar, our priority is our customers and helping them build a better world. We touch nearly every element of the services value stream from procurement to design and manufacturing to distribution. PSLD is responsible for Aftermarket Parts Distribution of Cat Parts, Integrated Logistics, segment Procurement and the design and manufacture of Wear Components (Undercarriage and GET) and Maintenance Components (Seals, Tubes & Hardware, Hose & Couplings, Fluids and Filters).

We’re committed to our customers, who build a better world with our products, services, and solutions. We understand and show the value of why they should always choose us. We’re exploring new ideas and opportunities – innovating to discover the breakthroughs necessary for tomorrow’s growth.

Through it all, we are one team – creating and delivering world-class components and solutions superior to the competition. Learn more about the Caterpillar Experience.

What You Will Do:

As a Supply Chain Planning Engineer 4, you will provide leadership in strategic sourcing for Undercarriage Track Facilities and Suppliers worldwide. Your primary responsibility will be collaborating with Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering and Machine Division Customers to establish capacity needs, execute statistical analysis of product demand, and provide insights into current state capabilities and future needs. 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!

• Lead cross-functional projects focused on supplier capacity, agility, and associated supply chain concepts.
• Manage Undercarriage Enterprise Component Capacity Program (ECCP) process for long term capacity planning across all Track Facilities globally.
• Work and communicate effectively with diverse, multi-functional teams to apply the capacity planning and strategic sourcing processes.
• Take an enterprise-wide view of supply chain and capacity planning processes and tools, as well as leverage a thorough knowledge of manufacturing and agility to coordinate the efforts of multiple teams across functions and divisions.
• Lead team efforts to gather and analyze data on value stream/product family level to define capacity and agility requirements for each supplier based on statistical modeling and product insights.
• Lead work team consisting of members from multiple functions, driving collaboration and communication across divisions, including Purchasing, Manufacturing Engineering, product group personnel, and global supply chain members.
• Support efforts to ensure New Product Introduction (NPI) and Engineering/Change Control impacts are considered in strategic sourcing.
• Collaborating with Business Resources for business case analysis.
• Other duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time-to-time.

What You Have (Basic Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• 3 (plus) years of Supply Chain or other relevant work experience.
• The ability to travel both domestically and internationally up to 10% of the time.

What You Have (Preferred Qualifications):

• Experience and knowledge of capacity planning concepts and tools.
• Experience and knowledge of supply chain principles, specifically those applied to capacity planning, agility planning.
• Knowledge of complex statistical concepts and tools.
• Requires cross-functional work team leadership skills and communication.
• Strong understanding and previous experience using common supply chain systems, and the ability to coordinate facility efforts with large-scale enterprise transformations.
• Knowledge and/or experience deploying using 6 Sigma Project Management principles.
• Must possess excellent leadership skills to effectively lead supply chain improvements making the best use of available resources, while maintaining strong people focus and fulfilling the responsibilities for leading people.
• Must possess extremely strong collaborative, interpersonal and negotiation skills to drive common supply chain processes across multiple departments within a business division.
• Must have advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to creatively solve very complex problems.
  

Additional Information:

• Location: Peoria, IL (USA)
• This position does offer relocation assistance for the right candidate.
• Our team embraces flexibility through a hybrid work model. In addition to working onsite at one of our facilities in Peoria, IL, our hybrid work model allows employees the flexibility to work from home based on business need.

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Relocation is available for this position.Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. 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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