**Career Area**:Engineering**:
**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.
As an Engineering Team Leader you will inspire, guide, and support talented manufacturing engineers, design engineers, procurement, and supply chain professionals as they increase their understanding and execution of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), New Product Introductions (NPI) and New Source Introductions (NSI) for Caterpillar manufacturing in Mexico.
Additionally, the role will drive engagement and collaboration between product groups across the enterprise and the Advanced Components Manufacturing (ACM) resources to ensure we achieve the capacity and capability needed On-Time to support critical imperative projects.
A key challenge of this role will be to carefully evaluate gaps in program execution and to escalate and engage the leadership or management support needed to quickly resolve.
**Responsibilities**:
This position identifies process improvement opportunities and determines the next steps needed to help engage the appropriate resources to drive positive change. Provides input into departmental strategies and ensures the Mexico region is represented as the enterprise process owners seek feedback to make updates and cascade new standards to product development teams.
**What you will do**:
- Provide regular APQP training offerings, including associated processes (DFMEA, PFMEA, PPAP, etc).
- Provide leadership and updates to training material, process guidance, and standard work
- Regularly update leadership on NPI, NTI, NSI, CPI, and APQP activities governance support.
- Working closely with procurement, product group, manufacturing, and logistics teams to ensure a clear understanding of the program needs and timing, along with assessing risk to production launch or a successful hand-off to the operations team.
- Identify areas of improvement needed to increase APQP coverage on parts changing or going to production for the first time.
- Coordinate and lead Concurrent Product and Process Development (CPPD) escalation events as needed in support of enterprise efforts to produce Defect-Free products and components.
**What you will get**:
- Flexible work schedule with up to 2 days remote work allowed
**Requirements**:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering discipline
- 8+ years of engineering, manufacturing, or operations experience plus familiarity with company manufacturing facilities, equipment, and processes
- Fluency in English and Spanish is essential.
- Product Group, NPI, Operations, or Manufacturing Advanced Planning experience.
- Master's degree in a Business or Engineering discipline
- 5+ years leading APQP product development efforts or NPI experience
- Formal Leadership experience
- 6 Sigma Black Belt experience
**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.**
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).
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