Manufacturing Engineer

**Career Area**: Manufacturing **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. **Role Definition** Provides support and guidance on all aspects of production, costs, quality, compliance to safety guidelines, and environmental requirements for manufacturing. **Responsibilities** - Participating in identifying and implementing enhancements and modifications to equipment and processes. - Monitoring equipment and process reliability; identifying and addressing problem areas. - Analyzing engineering change notices, determines any part or process change, initiates and implements all changes. - Providing engineering support on planning, development, operation, and maintenance of equipment, processes, or facilities. - Develop, Document and Maintain APQP & PPAP for Value Stream Operations **Skill Descriptors** Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment. Level Extensive Experience: - 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. - Ensures alignment with enterprise strategy. **Judgment and Decision Making**: Knowledge of the decision-making process; ability to carefully evaluate the impact of emerging business situations and choose the best path forward communicating actions and activities that maximize organizational performance. Level Working Knowledge: - Discerns between "signal" and "noise" when considering courses of action. - Selects the right activities to work on from a range of competing priorities. - Stands by decisions in the face of conflict or unexpected outcome. - Makes the transition from evaluation to conclusion readily and in a timely manner. - Revisits decisions when appropriate, but infrequently and without disrupting focus. - Engineering knowledge experience of processes, techniques, and methods of engineering in a manufacturing environment; ability to design and implement continues processes flow that safely & effectiveness realize a desired future state or objective. **Lean Manufacturing**: Knowledge of the philosophy, principles and implementation approaches of lean manufacturing; ability to integrate and implement lean manufacturing philosophy into existing production and management processes. Level Working Knowledge: - Discusses considerations for work cell design and effectiveness monitoring. - Finds solution for key technical and people problems associated with transformation to lean. - Explains issues and considerations of implementing lean in own function or area. - Selects and utilizes tools, techniques and measurements associated with a lean assessment. - Explains benchmarks and measures of effectiveness of lean. - Experience leading improvement projects **Manufacturing Equipment**: Knowledge of the electrical, mechanical and logistics equipment used in manufacturing; ability to safely operate, maintain, update and store them. Level Working Knowledge: - Performs routine maintenance: cleaning, replacing defective or worn parts. - Performs basic care and safety considerations for a specific type of manufacturing equipment. - Participates in setting up new machines and testing according to manufacturer's specifications. - Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques; resolves common problems. - Conducts routine inspections; checks machine performance and equipment safeguards; reports standards violations. **Manufacturing Processes**: Knowledge of existing product manufacturing methods, technologies and processes; ability to execute, plan, manage and monitor the entire manufacturing process. Level Extensive Experience: - Advises others using industry experience and benchmarks for methodology effectiveness. - Develops best practices documentation for all major activities and tasks. - Trains others on all major tasks and considerations for the full manufacturing process. - Participates in measuring and monitoring new processes and technologies. - Selects and optimizes specific methodologies for specific products. - Evaluates