Senior Manager Manufacturing Engineering

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:

Provide leadership and technical expertise for the ACM Precision Components Team, working with internal/external partners and customers to develop long term manufacturing strategy and processes that align with division goals.

What You Will Do:

This position requires a high degree of experience and expertise in precision component design and manufacturing. Knowledge of processes such as machining, heat treat, additive manufacturing, paint, and other precision component technologies are required. This also includes understanding of value stream and facility design, maintenance activities as well as the planning, developing, and implementation of systems for Lean manufacturing. Incumbent needs to have a thorough understanding of precision component design combined with process design understanding to provide guidance of improved manufacturability of parts and major components. Incumbent will lead a team who will implement and improve manufacturing productivity and cost effectiveness, footprint and strategy. Role consists of managing the activities and resources for manufacturing engineers, process design and support personnel, adhering to established standards, policies and practices relating to quality, cost reduction, safety, ergonomics, etc., in performing assigned duties.

Provide leadership for Precision Components Team:

- Lead subject matter experts and manufacturing engineering managers to provide facility governance on manufacturing team, footprint, process, asset, maintenance and APQP strategy

Provide leadership for NSI/NPI/NCI Projects:

- Lead governance of all ACM Precision Component NSI/NPI/NCI projects from central manufacturing team.

Provide leadership for cost reduction projects:

- Lead multiple cost reduction projects across ACM factories. Provides leadership for operational efficiency improvement, targeted supplier cost reductions and internal process optimization.

Provide leadership for problem resolution:

- Provide on-site support for manufacturing challenges and deficiencies; troubleshoot technically difficult production problems and work with management peers across ACM and enterprise to develop long term OPACC prioritized solutions.

Provide Strategic direction: Knowledge of the importance of “big picture” thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.

- Makes sound business decisions on behalf of the group when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives.

- Validates the consistency of group initiatives with the organizational vision.

- Interprets available data and analyses when creating tactical/strategic plans.

- Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.

- Recommends ways to position the organization for long-term competitiveness.

- Prepares the group’s response to key marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities.

Provide effective Communication:

- Communicates effectively with diverse audiences, using appropriate media and language.

- Ensures important messages are clearly understood and communicated.

Education Requirement:

- Bachelors degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering or Supply Chain Management

What Skills You Will Have:

Operational Functions:

- Facilitates interrelationships between major functions and sub-functions.

- Works to resolve obstacles to goals of several organizational functions.

- Advises others to carry out responsibilities based on understanding of key organizational functions.

- Evaluates relevant industry practices from an operations perspective and works accordingly.

- Recommends efficiencies in operational functions wherever possible.

Collaborating:

- Demonstrates experience engendering collaborative processes that lead to problem solving and the achievement of business goals.

- Establishes shared goals to foster collaboration.

- Ensures that everyone can access the same data and provide input into how business is conducted.

- Redesigns physical areas to allow for collaboration and private time.

- Deemphasizes divides; focuses on collaboration across generations, functions, regions, and levels.

- Implements methods for people to come together on the fly to make decisions, solve problems, and develop products/services.

Continuous Transformation:

- Implements new systems, procedures and tools efficiently when changes occur in the work environment.

- Adjusts current working processes or adopts new approaches in response to changes in the business environment.

- Seeks challenging opportunities or assignments to grow and develop one’s own knowledge, skills and abilities.

- Explains lessons or experiences learned from mistakes and failures as well as successes.

- Communicates and analyzes assumptions about a particular issue with colleagues to gain new perspectives or more effective solutions.

Organizational Leadership:

- Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate & attain desired behaviors; increases productivity.

- Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, dominance, persistence, integrity, confidence.

- Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events.

- Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc.

- Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transactional, and associated techniques.

Influencing Through Expertise:

- Acquires expertise through training and practical experience in the relevant field.

- Analyzes the needs, desires, and motivations of the other party to effectively understand a given scenario.

- Identifies who the decision makers are and how they receive information.

- Provides evidentiary support while giving opinions or recommendations to influence decision-making.

- Conducts tasks in such a way as to build a strong reputation and credibility as an expert in the field.

Project Management:

- Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.

- Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.

- Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.

- Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients.

- Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.

- Communicates reporting requirements;