Data Scientist

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

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.

Job Posting Dates: 7/28/26 – 8/4/26

Your Work Shapes the World 

Whether it is groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With 100 years of 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 customers’ needs.  Join us. 

The Mapleton Foundry is one of the largest in the United States, located just 20 minutes from Peoria, IL, and home to the largest core making machine in the world! Working at the foundry is hard work that demands focus and safety, quality, and commitment to helping our customers build a better world.

With over 800 employees at the foundry, we are looking for someone who can support process development projects for the continuous improvement of the safety, quality, velocity and cost of manufacturing.

Job Purpose:

In this role, you will work with a team that defines the current state and future state business processes of the factory. Using new technology, this team identifies opportunities to empower production employees and leadership with tools that support operations, make data driven decisions, understand the state of the factory at a given time, and ultimately help us meet customer demand. In this role, you will work both individually and with a team to interpret business requirements and develop them into strategic solutions. You will utilize this information to model data in a data warehouse, create database objects, create data visualizations, and build applications.

Job Overview:

The person in this role will demonstrate thorough knowledge of data structures, database architecture, and performance monitoring. In addition, they will utilize these skills to create data visualizations, new or updated processes/tools/systems, and assist manufacturing leaders in making data-driven decisions. Successful candidates demonstrate effective communication, teamwork, and presentation skills. As an individual contributor on project teams, they should also exhibit strong initiative and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Work as an individual contributor on a team that develops data-driven solutions that support factory operations

• Ability to work with several different teams, balance multiple projects, and prioritize work as needed

• Continuous appetite to network within the facility, meet with different operation teams, review their current processes, and make suggestions for improvement

• Leverage manufacturing expertise to develop data-driven solutions to the issues facing our business

• Develop database objects such as tables, views, stored procedures, and queries

• Support business processes with the creation of Power BI data visualizations, PowerApps, and Power Automate flows.

• Monitor manufacturing key performance indicators and develop improved methods for communicating performance against these metrics to all levels of the organization

• Analyze requirements and make recommendations for facility systems, processes, and training

• Complete both specialized and broad-based assignments / projects which may require collaboration and integration with other functions, departments, or facilities

• Evaluate projects and prepare feasibility studies to define desired results, assess value proposition and determine project plans

• Experience in database development, entity-relationship data modeling, and writing SQL

• Experience with Office 365, PowerApps, PowerBI, Tableau, Snowflake

Skill Descriptors:

Business Statistics: Working knowledge of the statistical too