Supply Chain Planning Engineer

**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. We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our Product Support and Logistics Division as a Value Stream Manager supporting our Wear Components Business.

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 **Supply Chain Planning Engineer 3 **is a part of the Global Undercarriage Supply Chain team. You will be responsible for managing the global supply chain for the Undercarriage set of components. Working to both define and improve our supply network to better support our customers. This includes defining sourcing strategies for Prime Products and Aftermarkets for current products and NPI (New Product Introduction), as well as setting up a sustainable and agile supply network that delivers the lowest landed cost at the expected availability to support Caterpillar’s growth targets. This role is a key supply chain position and may participate in facility or business division strategy development and target setting.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leads efforts which require the ability to build multi-functional networks to drive activities across multiple supply chain functions and non-supply chain divisions, such as site Purchasing and Operations
- Work with multiple Caterpillar facilities, Product Group’s, Engineering, Machine Business Division and Aftermarket Division to determine sourcing strategy for components in scope to provide the best value to the Enterprise considering cost, availability, and assurance of supply to support Caterpillar’s growth targets
- Lead project teams comprised of multi-functional resources, including business division, supply chain planning, global purchasing, operations, Global Transportation, Demand and Orders, Material Requirements Planning and Logistics to support NPI and sourcing projects to recommend optimal regional as well as global sourcing
- _Potential to include large projects to strengthen the Caterpillar supply chain and ensure a reliable and sustainable supply to our customer while optimizing OPACC (Operating Profit after Capital Charge) _
- Coordinates the long-term capacity planning with facilities to align demand forecast with global capacity
- Works collaboratively with facilities and multiple business division functions to address and resolve supply issues using root cause and corrective action (RCCA) and recovery planning by providing global approach leveraging alternative sources of supply to mitigate supply disruption risks as necessary
- Other duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time-to-time

**Basic Requirements**:

- Five (5) to Eight (8) years of progressively increasing responsibilities in Supply Chain or alternative background aligned with the job description
- _Equivalent background in Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering, or Procurement will also be considered _
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Logistics, or Operations Management
- Prior experience and knowledge of lean concepts and tools
- Knowledge or and/or experience deploying and using 6Sigma Project Management principles
- Strong Business Acumen and Strategic Attributes; including strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to creatively solve very complex problems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Previous experience working with and within a global team
- Strong collaborative, interpersonal and negotiation skills in order to drive common processes across multiple departments within a business division
- Master’s Degree or higher in Supply Chain, Engineering, Logistics, or Operations Management
- APICS CPIM or CSPC National Certification
- Excellent leadership skills to effectively lead improvements making the best use of available resour