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**Career Area**:Manufacturing**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.
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**Role Definition**Manages the manufacturing engineering expertise and provides guidance to establish the necessary requirements for cost effective manufacturing or assembly processes.
Controls plant layouts, machine moves, and new equipment installations.
**Responsibilities**- Developing and maintaining an effective organization capable of achieving objectives and supporting manufacturing operations.- Leading assembly, manufacturing processing, cost estimating, systems planning, layout, standards, releasing, gaging and checking equipment, tooling and work standards.- Managing development, implementation and continual improvement of the operating methods, equipment, systems and other operating infrastructure used to realize operating goals and objectives.- Ensuring assigned facilities and methods are provided for the manufacture of products in line with authorized product programs and capacity schedules.
**Skill Descriptors**Quality Management: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.Level Extensive Experience:- Interprets results of quantitative and statistical tools and explains results to others.- Communicates key benefits of a quality management process.- Conducts and directs quality reviews.- Develops expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.- Develops quality assurance processes based on Six Sigma, ISO 9000 or Baldrige principles.- Develops programs for motivating employees to meet or exceed quality goals.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 Working Knowledge:- Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.- Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.- Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc.
to disclose meaningful data patterns.- Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.- Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions