.**Career Area**:Manufacturing & Supply Chain**:At Caterpillar, we work to help our customers build a better world. Without our team of talented, bright and driven individuals, we wouldn't be the Caterpillar we are today. Now, this is your chance to join our team and do work that matters. We want you to help us enable customer success, make progress possible around the world and help our communities grow and thrive.The **Product Support and Logistics Division (PSLD) **is one of the most innovative divisions within Caterpillar. In PSLD, as within all of Caterpillar, our priority is our customers and helping them build a better world. We touch nearly every element of the services value stream from procurement to design and manufacturing to distribution. PSLD is responsible for Aftermarket Parts Distribution of Cat Parts, Integrated Logistics, segment Procurement and the design and manufacture of Wear Components (Undercarriage and GET) and Maintenance Components (Seals, Tubes & Hardware, Hose & Couplings, Fluids and Filters).We're **committed **to our customers, who build a better world with our products, services and solutions. We understand and show the value of why they should always choose us. We're exploring new ideas and opportunities - **innovating** to discover the breakthroughs necessary for tomorrow's growth.The **Manufacturing Project Engineer 3 **is responsible for technical expertise, guidance and coordination in development of major manufacturing projects for Undercarriage, working with internal/external suppliers to support/improve manufacturing productivity and cost effectiveness. This individual will report directly to the Undercarriage Value Chain Engineering Manager and work transversally to coordinate and implement footprint solutions to optimize Undercarriage supply globally.**Responsibilities**:- Implementation of major systems and the coordination of those systems within the total plant- Provides direction, guidance, and coordination to other manufacturing and strategic supply chain personnel in a continuous effort to improve manufacturing productivity- Work with suppliers (both internal and external) in the development of large projects, which ensure the most efficient and cost-effective systems of operations to produce quality products- Actively engage with suppliers to analyze their current or proposed process designs to determine feasibility of using existing designs or modifying the designs to improve process- Ensures Engineering, Purchasing, and shop personnel both at Caterpillar and suppliers are involved in the approval process so that sound decisions are made which improve manufacturing processes, quality and/or reduce costs- Use knowledge gain through years of experience to explain to suppliers the tooling, dies, fixtures, etc