at Caterpillar, Inc. in Mossville, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Career Area:
Manufacturing
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.
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.
Job Summary:
OEM Solutions Group provides integrated solutions for OEM applications leveraging Cat® components and machines. OEM strives to solve customer problems while generating profitable and sustainable growth for Caterpillar and OEMs. OEM Solutions utilizes the CAT dealer channel as well as a direct path to market for OEM Customers. This role will be focused specifically on Product Change Control and will work with cross functional teams to ensure timely changes are implemented. Coordinates engineering releasing activities between engineering design areas and procurement/scheduling with effective and timely implementation. Attention to detail and strong communication to avoid waste will be critical to the success of this role.
What You Will Do:
- Creating, maintaining, and communicating accurate change management data at both the local and corporate level through data entry in multiple management information systems.
- Analyzing engineering releases, changes, drawing notices to create change management requirements, providing the creation of product structure based on engineering design.
- Maintaining close team relationships with releasing analysts, as well as teams in manufacturing operations, process planning, category purchasing, commercial, engineering design, and material planning.
- Strong data analytics skills and SAP/MACH 1 experience are desired
Education Requirement:
A Bachelors degree or equivalent (3+ years supply chain, logistics, or manufacturing engineering experience)
What Skills You Will Have:
Core Application Systems:
- Manages application-related issues, implications, and approaches with clients.
- Evaluates key interfaces and interdependencies among core applications systems.
- Explains features and benefits of core applications for consideration by business units.
- Implements existing and planned application enhancements in major business units.
- Tracks data flow between own applications and core applications in other business areas.
- Plans enhancement, conversion, and retirement strategies for core applications.
Service Excellence:
- Provides a quality of service that customers describe as excellent.
- Resolves common customer problems.
- Responds to unexpected customer requests with a sense of urgency and positive action.
- Provides direct service to internal or external customers.
- Documents customer complaints in a timely manner.
Accuracy and Attention to Detail:
- Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.
- Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.
- Productively balances speed and accuracy.
- Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.
- Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
- Employs techniques for motivating employees to meet or exceed accuracy goals.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
- 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.
Problem Solving:
- Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
- Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
- Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
- Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
- Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
- Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning):
- Evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of an organization’s own ERP system for further improvement.
- Consults on how to effectively integrate ERP systems with other platforms within the organization.
- Evaluates the ERP system’s best practices to learn its principles and applications.
- Resolves all technical and administrative problems that occur throughout the ERP design and implementation process.
- Advises the ERP design team on ERP systems requirements.
- Monitors all ERP users to comply with established operational guidelines and standards.
Manufacturing Application Systems:
- Uses and maintains information or data stored in specific application; reports unusual situations.
- Documents the major interfaces and dependencies to and from other systems.
- Follows procedures for the maintenance and upkeep of the databases.
- Uses all basic features of the information system in context of own work.
- Works with a specific type of manufacturing application or information system.
Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP):
- Describes basic concepts of materials and capacity management processes and procedures.
- Describes product life cycle and associated MRP cycle.
- Identifies parameters and considerations used in making decisions about production runs.
- Describes the use of bills of materials and other documentation needed to provide supplies.
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL.
Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
This position will require less than 10% travel.
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 det
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