Procurement Quality Engineer

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Procurement

As a Procurement Quality Engineer, you will be accountable for monitoring the external supplier network to meet defined quality targets, enabling optimal and efficient facility operations. You will collaborate with business partners and suppliers and resolve facility‑specific supplier quality issues.

• Provide conclusions and recommendations for quality issues and/or continuous quality improvement projects.
• Participate in supplier quality improvement initiatives; work with suppliers to develop and improve quality levels.
• Ensure the reliability and quality of suppliers, implementing process controls, certification programs, evaluations, inspections, corrective actions, audits and records.
• Identify quality problems and determine action plans with the facility management and suppliers.
• Manage the corrective‑action process on supplier‑related quality issues.
• Identify, contain and ultimately eliminate the defect through Root‑Cause‑Corrective‑Action analysis and containment plans.
• Use facility‑based systems and purchasing reporting systems (e.g., NCMs, EtQ, MRDR’s, POU documentation) and communicate supplier corrective‑action details to ensure the customer is confident in containment and final corrective‑action plans.

Degree or equivalent experience desired.

20% domestic travel required.

• 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.
• Accuracy and attention to detail; understanding the necessity and value of accuracy and ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
• Collaborating:
  Knowledge of collaborative techniques and ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups constructively.
• Effective Communications:
  Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and interpret ideas, information, and needs.
• Problem solving:
  Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

• Knowledge of the concepts, principles and techniques of Root Cause Analysis (RCA); ability to use a structured approach to identify the causes of undesirable consequences in a manufacturing environment and the changes needed to prevent recurrences.
• Knowledge of purchasing tasks, activities, procedures and policies in manufacturing activities.
• Experience in understanding and interpreting specifications and prints.

$95,640.00 – $

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement
• These benefits also apply to part-time employees

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at

Posting Dates:
December 15, 2025 - January 8, 2026

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.