at Caterpillar, Inc. in Decatur, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Career Area:
Engineering
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.
As Value Chain Designer at Caterpillar, you will ensure linkage between product value stream teams and end-to-end value chains, including process planning and execution to meet or exceed customer order to delivery market requirements while improving the business’ Operating Profit after Capital Charge (OPACC). In addition, you will support the development and execution of end-to-end value chain network improvement activities, including strategic process transformation, value chain simplification and planning, value chain performance, logistics, and overall value chain costs.
What you will do:
- Analyzing the inbound, value add and outbound value chains to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Support developing business cases and capability studies, recommending improvements to stakeholders.
- Implementing new and enhanced processes and tools and governing changes through collaboration across multiple workstreams to ensure alignment.
- Identifying process inefficiencies and wastes of time, money, materials, and energy.
- The incumbent supports other members of the value chain design team to help to identify OIA opportunities, solve problems and resolve model feasibility gaps.
- This role will support business and operational decisions of both internal and external value chain partners, by providing data-backed proposals to drive continuous improvements across the overall value stream.
- The incumbent provides support to value chain teams responsible for the management of end-to-end value chain functions in alignment with customer Order-to-Delivery requirements.
- The incumbent is responsible for working to maintain and strengthen communications and alignment between various NPI teams, as well as driving collaboration between all members of the enterprise value chain network.
- The incumbent will work closely with relevant functional areas.
Background/Experience:
- Value stream or related experience
- Bachelor’s degree in operations research, Engineering, Value Stream, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, management, or related quantitative field
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- NPI and value chain transformation experience
- Excellent communication and data visualization skills
Top Candidates Will Have:
- Deep understand of manufacturing processes and systems.
- Understanding ERP systems’ lead time elements (supply chain, manufacturing, and marketing)
- Understanding product cost rollups and partial value stream costs
- Ability to work with cross functional teams globally and gather data for value chain design.
- Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills throughout the Cat network, such as global facilities, transportation organizations, marketing, accounting, etc.
- Ability to apply value stream models to extended applications within Caterpillar’s value stream processes.
- Very strong end-to-end supply base understanding, including customers and dealers. – Value stream or related experience
- Ability to ramp up quickly within a new environment.
What Skills You Will Have:
Business Process Design: Knowledge of business process design; ability to develop appropriate techniques to re-examine key processes and focus on optimizing organizational performance.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Carries out business process design tasks with some supervision and coaching.
- Uses a variety of business process design tools and techniques.
- Examines, interprets, and explains work-flow materials and documentation.
- Documents common obstacles and barriers for effective implementation.
- Analyzes a process and associated business logic and offers recommendations based on analysis.
Business Process Improvement: Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business related activities.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Gathers data for use in the analysis of business processes.
- Illustrates problems, opportunities and methods for improving existing business processes.
- Suggests ways to reduce variation and/or waste in processes.
- Helps evaluate what factors should be addressed in the change program.
- Participates in requirements analysis for process changes.
Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
- Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.
- Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.
- Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
- Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.
Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
- Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
- Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
- Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
- Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
Process Mapping/Flowcharting: Knowledge of the concepts of process mapping; ability to carry out the documentation of current and proposed manufacturing processes to identify and make improvements.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Uses a wide variety of process mapping tools and techniq
