Manager, Value Chain Engineering

at  Caterpillar

WHAT YOU HAVE (BASIC QUALIFICATIONS):

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science.
• Business Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company’s business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Designs the organization’s planning processes and decision-making channels.
• Explains business issues and trends of own business unit as compared to other business units.
• Demonstrates a big picture understanding of the business, its interrelationships, and priorities.
• Demonstrates strong foundation of business fundamentals, measurement, and business finance.
• Develops business cases for own function, reviews and critiques cases for other functions.
• Explains advantages and risks of using business simulations for critical business decisions.
• Planning: Tactical & Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
• Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
• Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
• Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
• Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
• Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
• Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.
• Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
• Helps others learn the tools and techniques for process value analysis.
• Carries out process evaluation, diagnosis, and optimization.
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of a major process flow, its components and issues.
• Synchronizes the efforts of, and resource requirements for, several teams within a process.
• Makes the business case for new processes, including their cost-benefit ratios.
• Possesses knowledge of tools and techniques for designing and implementing new processes.
• 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.
• Utilizes quality indicators relevant to own unit or function.
• Adheres to organizational quality management processes and practices.
• Applies key aspects of continuous improvement processes and evaluates impact on quality.
• Uses quality evaluation tools and techniques such as walkthroughs and inspections.
• Works with quality assurance methods, tools and techniques.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Analyzes and discusses alternatives with multiple stakeholders.
• Monitors developments in critical-thinking and decision-making models for potential use by organization.
• Coaches’ others in decision-making models, processes, and practices.
• Anticipates special issues and considerations for effective decision-making during a crisis.
• Shares experiences regarding optimal timing and circumstances for refraining from or making decisions.
• Differentiates between content and context of a decision.
• Capacity Planning & Management: Knowledge of tools, approaches and practices for determining production demand and ability to manage resources needed to provide satisfactory levels of service.
• Works with R&D (research & development) staff to plan resource and capacity requirements for products under development.
• Creates consolidated forecasts for multiple product lines and production facilities.
• Advises on multiple cycles of short- and long-term capacity planning for product or site.
• Compares and contrasts alternative approaches and tools for capacity planning.
• Develops estimates and costs for incremental capacity requirements.
• Translates demand forecasts into production and capacity requirements.
• Industrial Engineering: Knowledge of industrial engineering processes, techniques and methods; ability to design and implement various processes and support infrastructures that safely realize a desired objective or invention.
• Assesses possible root causes of the failure of a certain manufacturing system or process.
• Collects basic production and safety capability information of current manufacturing processes and systems.
• Works with basic, routine components of the industrial engineering discipline in manufacturing.
• Follows relevant standards, policies, and practices to identify and report industrial engineering issues.
• Discusses operational industrial engineering issues and considerations regarding manufacturing.
• Strategic Sourcing: Knowledge of strategic sourcing methods, technologies and processes; ability to analyze, improve and re-evaluate organizational procurement process continuously.
• Participates in monitoring the execution for all stages of the strategic sourcing process.
• Trains others on strategic sourcing in multiple and diverse environments.
• Designs and develops standard supplier agreements and procurement policies with standardized terms and conditions.
• Works with complex strategic sourcing components including but not limited to negotiations, contracting, and continuous process improvement and implementation.
• Consults on strategic sourcing methods in relation to business relationships, inter-dependencies and integration.
• Develops and explains strategic sourcing best practices and rationale for the organization and industry.

WHAT YOU HAVE (PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS):

• Previous progressively responsible experience in Supply Chain, Engineering, Procurement and/or Manufacturing.
• Experience leading global teams to drive substantial process and cultural changes.
• Previous experience working with suppliers.

• Managing staffing, development, and performance management programs for value chain engineering teams; motivating and developing project and team leaders.
• Designing and implementing the end-to-end value chain for a product with a keen focus on inventory, assurance of supply, cost and quality.
• Managing high-impact, long duration value chain engineering continuous improvement initiatives and projects; ensuring achievement of engineering plan and product quality.
• Managing risk and recovery related to foreseeable and unforeseeable value chain disruptions.Other duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time-to-time.