at Caterpillar, Inc. in Mossville, 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.
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:
Manages multiple or complex business and engineering projects involving multiple functions, organizations, products, or value chains.
The business process owner for manufacturing execution will be responsible for establishing the process vision for manufacturing execution globally. Working with facilities around the world, this role will set strategic direction and champion change to continuously improve future state processes. The global process vision will include the recommendation of enterprise metrics, common process requirements, and multi-generation project plans to move from current to future state. The business process owner will be responsible for multiple capabilities in the manufacturing execution space as well as the collection, analytics, and visualization of data generated in manufacturing execution.
What You Will Do:
- Connect with facilities globally to understand business problems and translate into functional process and system requirements.
- Develop project scope to address business challenges and opportunities.
- Coordinate resources across the enterprise in engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and logistics.
- Oversee project progress and costs; communicating status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; addressing and resolving problems.
- Direct project staffing; motivating and developing project team and team members.
Education Requirement:
- Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
What Skills You Will Have:
Technical Excellence:
- Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
- Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
- Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
- Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
- Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
- Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.
Influencing Through Expertise:
- Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand.
- Exhibits depth and breadth of knowledge, skill, and experience in manufacturing engineering, execution, quality, and support.
- Provides relevant, timely and objective subject matter/process expertise and key insight regarding multiple client business areas and affiliated fields.
- Provides others with information, opportunities, or resources to develop their skills in manufacturing capabilities.
- Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking evidentiary support or impact.
- Coaches others to enhance their proficiency regarding the tenets, practices, and examples of the ‘trusted advisor’ credential.
Project Management:
- Champions organization’s project management methodology, tools, and techniques.
- Manages multiple high-risk, high-cost projects involving multiple stakeholders.
- Coaches others in open communication among project stakeholders.
- Monitors major projects for critical path and actual status versus planned.
- Consults on project planning and management of high-risk, high-impact projects.
- Monitors industry for fresh approaches and tools for project management.
Team Management:
- 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.
Requirements Analysis:
- Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.
- Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.
- Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.
- Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.
- Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.
- Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.
Troubleshooting Technical Problems:
- Evaluates business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution.
- Resolves difficult or high-impact process and systems problems.
- Coaches others how to resolve integration or communications problems in multi-vendor environment.
- Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach.
- Uses advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems.
Process Design and Development:
- Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex process efficiency and effectiveness.
- Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.
- Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of processes and capabilities.
- Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed processes, systems, and technology.
- Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex process design and development problems.
- Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed processes, systems, or technology.
Additional Information
The primary location for this position is Mossville, IL but other Caterpillar locations will be considered.
Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
This position may require up to 25% 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, V
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