.**Career Area**:Procurement**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**Assesses the supplier quality and ensures that all the products are free from defects and are in compliance with manufacturing specifications and legal standards.**Responsibilities**- Ensuring the quality of supplies by conducting tests and assessments on incoming supplies to identify any quality issues; Developing supplier inspection, testing, and evaluation mechanism.- Generating reports on supplier quality, by monitoring their defect rates and areas that can lead to potential flaws; Guiding suppliers to reduce these defect rates.- Researching the potential vendors, assessing their manufacturing environment, practices, and procedures; Conducting supplier quality control audits to ensure compliance with organizational and federal policies and standards.- Supporting suppliers in improving their performance through process enhancements, implementing process controls, and developing quality assurance plans.**Degree Requirement**Engineering Degree**Skill Descriptors**Effective Communications:- 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.- English level: ProficientProblem Solving:- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.Process Improvement:- Defines the critical workflow for executing key processes.- Identifies process problems that limit performance.- Implements methods for improving and establishing controls for critical processes.- Focuses on the most significant problems to maximize efficiency gains.- Surfaces systemic problems to be addressed at the organizational level.Quality Orientation:- Confronts root causes of problems wherever they exist.- Eliminates unnecessary work and all non-value-added activities.- Uses objective quality criteria and data to drive decisions