Career Area:
Procurement
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.
Role Definition Supports supply related activities for a facility to deliver excellence and integration between procurement and the team supporting facility.
Responsibilities • Supporting delivery of a lean, responsive, and resilient material and services flow for the facility from source to dock and additional required points. • Recognizing the potential for cost and inventory reductions, and quality improvement, as well as responsibility for soundness of business proposals and risk assessment. • Operating and monitoring the supply network procurement functions to meet the defined response time, cost, quality, and lean targets enabling optimal and efficient facility operations. • Collaborating with business partners and suppliers, and resolving facility specific supplier issues.
Degree Requirement Bachelor's Degree or above with equivalent experience, Engineering Degree desired.
Skill Descriptors **Process Management: **Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes. Level Working Knowledge: • Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate. • Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process. • Creates process flow or work flow diagrams. • Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision. • Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.
**Data-driven Decision Making: **Knowledge of the data-driven decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to gather and analyze data to make organizational decisions that align with strategic business objectives and goals. Level Working Knowledge: • Applies an assigned technique for data-driven thinking in a Decision-Making process. • Discerns between "signal" and "noise" when interpreting data. • Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas. • Participates in the process of choosing KPIs and metrics to influence decisions. • Utilizes the basic data collection and evaluation tools and techniques.
Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems. Level Basic Understanding: • Names specific tools or techniques that can be used to support the analytical thinking process. • Describes specific software applications or products used for business analytics. • Gives examples of how analytical thinking has been used to resolve problems. • Helps others research and learn more about business analytics tools and applications.
**Effective Communications: **Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors. Level Working Knowledge: • Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient. • Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness. • Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work. • Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate. • Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
**Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP): **Knowledge of the processes, practices and systems used in manufacturing requirements planning (MRP); ability to optimize planning for manufacturing cycles and ensure capacity and materials availability. Level Working Knowledge: • Participates in developing materials requirements and costs for custom requests. • Uses job schedule, plant and machine schedule and inventory systems to initiate and oversee jobs. • Uses available tools to analyze order and develop quotes and realistic delivery dates. • Plans and schedules production runs for specific products and assures availability of materials. • Follows key criteria to collect information needed to make good production decisions for operation.
**Supplier Management - MFG: **Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice. Level Working Knowledge: • Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks. • Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers. • Resolves routine supplier issues; escalates non-routine issues up chain of command. • Researches alternative vendors or suppliers; participates in supplier selection. • Works with suppliers to ensure that purchases meet delivery date and quality specifications.
This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Posting Dates:
April 29, 2026 - May 29, 2026
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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