Sr Mfg Engineer CS/PS

Career Area:

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.

Provides technical expertise necessary to design all aspects of production, costs, quality, compliance to safety 
guidelines, and environmental requirements for manufacturing.

Responsibilities
• Identifying and implementing enhancements and modifications to complex manufacturing operations 
equipment and processes.
• Monitoring sophisticated equipment and process reliability; identifying and addressing problem areas.
• Providing supervision, coaching and development for operations staff and support areas.
• Leading engineering support on planning, development, operation, and maintenance of equipment, 
processes, or facilities.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside 
own organization.
Level Extensive Experience: 
• Achieves influence and impact even when holding a position contrary to the majority.
• Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking substance or impact.
• Leads and presents collaborative assessments that persuasively influence decision makers.
• Advises on techniques to build rapport and commitment to common purpose.
• Determines and leverages the decision-making style of the individual or group being influenced.
• Delivers well-received presentations of cost, benefits, risks, and other considerations.

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.

Change Control - MFG: Knowledge of the processes and procedures by which a change is identified, evaluated, 
approved, monitored and documented; ability to manage changes in the production environment and processes 
effectively.
Level Working Knowledge: 
• Assesses errors that occur during change execution and takes action in correcting these errors.
• Conducts impact analyses to determine the effect change might have on the status of current production 
environment.
• Implements routine changes to the production environment; documents the changes made.
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• Follows the established change control process to ensure the performance of emergency repair and 
maintenance.
• Prevents unauthorized or unintended deviations in compliance with that of change control policies.

Engineering - MFG: Knowledge of processes, techniques and methods of engineering in a manufacturing 
environment; ability to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems and processes that 
safely realize a desired objective or invention.
Level Extensive Experience: 
• Trains others on most components of engineering as related to manufacturing.
• Guides others on the application of manufacturing industry and organizational best engineering practices 
and explains their rationale.
• Facilitates the integration of engineering systems and applications for a manufacturing organization.
• Advises others on the key benefits, drawbacks and rationale for engineering standards, policies and 
practices.
• Monitors the effectiveness and efficiency of processes and improves engineering operations performance.
• Works with various complex engineering operations in a manufacturing environment.

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 processe