Manufacturing Engineer

**Career Area**:
Manufacturing

**Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.**

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**Job Summary**:
This role assists with technical analysis of manufacturing processes in all aspects of production, costs, quality, compliance with safety guidelines, and environmental requirements for manufacturing. Participating in identifying and implementing enhancements and modifications to equipment and processes. Monitoring equipment and process reliability; identifying and addressing problem areas. Providing coaching and development for operations technical staff and support areas. Providing engineering support on planning, development, operation, and maintenance of equipment, processes, or facilities.

**Job role**:

- Analyze and follow blueprints/drawings to ensure product and customer specifications.
- Assist manufacturing operations team in modifying tooling/equipment for continuous improvement.
- Responsible for tracking the daily report of Value Stream expenses.
- Responsible for ensuring the correct use of tools/materials to ensure the correct use.
- Assist in assessing risks, benefits and alternatives.
- Develop new manufacturing technologies in the manufacturing process.
- Be responsible for proper documentation for current production and NSI / NPI products (PPAP, APQP, etc...)
- Inspect manufacturing work environment to find safety hazards/violations and determine an appropriate action to counter them.
- Explain tool, techniques and documents used for process monitoring and control.
- Be responsible for collecting data, such as safety findings, quality problems, daily output and root cause analysis.

**Experience and Skill requirement**:
Completed bachelor's degree in industrial, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Manufacturing, Electrical Engineering or a related field.

Intermediate English level.

**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.
- Advises on advanced data analysis methodologies and technologies to make more informed decisions.

- Coaches others on improving the validity and reliability of data used in various Decision-Making processes.
- Designs KPIs and metrics to analyze data and influence decisions.
- Evaluates the opportunities and the challenges of integrating data into decisions.
- Oversees data gathering and analysis activities within the organization.
- Seeks input from multiple sources to generate diverse ideas for Decision Making.

**Lean Manufacturing**

- Continuous improvement methodologies: Lean, Six Sigma, PDCA, 8D, SWOT, Pareto, fishbone diagram.
- Blueprint reading and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).

**Manufacturing Processes**

- Working knowledge in manufacturing process.
- Familiar with MS Office packages, Autocad, Visualization software.
- Data analysis applied to manufacturing.

**Additional information**

- Located in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León.

- Domestic relocation is not available.

- Work Schedule**:Monday to Friday (6:24 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) and Saturday (7:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.).

**Final details**

**The Caterpillar Code of Conduct states that we will select, and place employees based on their qualifications for the job to be performed, without regard to race, religion, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or disability. In this company we do not request pregnancy tests, nor HIV tests as requirements for employment entry, permanence or promotion.**

**Posting Dates**:
noviembre 5, 2025 - noviembre 12, 2025

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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