Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Career Area:

Manufacturing

Job Description:

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.

Your impact shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you’re joining a global team who cares about the work we do and the people involved. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger and more sustainable communities. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation, we make it happen for our customers, employees, and communities. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Role Definition The Manufacturing Engineering Manager will lead a team of 3 to 5 members providing manufacturing engineering skills and resources to drive continuous improvement across the RIOP global manufacturing footprint. The role will partner with facilities to prioritize needs, align resources, rapidly solve manufacturing problems, and accelerate deployment of proven solutions across all eight factories. A key focus will be eliminating duplicated engineering effort, standardizing best practices, and delivering measurable improvements in safety, Ramp support, process performance, automation, and digital manufacturing.

Additional Information Primary

Location:

Decatur, IL, East Peoria, IL, or Peterlee, UKTravel:
Up to 25% (domestic and international)
Relocation Assistance:
Available Visa Sponsorship:
Not Available What You’ll DoLead manufacturing engineering teams across Machining, Welding, Assembly, and Testing, providing worldwide rapid response to manufacturing needs and solving problems with urgency across all eight RIOP factories.

Drive high-energy hazard reduction, below-the-hook rigging controls, and Pacefactory deployment across sites, providing clear leadership direction on safety priorities.

Align teams on Ramp support, hands-on problem solving, and Modern Manufacturing deployment to improve execution and accelerate production readiness.

Replicate proven Automation & Digital Manufacturing tools and solutions across sites to improve manufacturing capability, consistency, and efficiency.

Accelerate deployment of solutions proven at other RIOP factories while preventing duplicated engineering effort across facilities.

Lead the development, implementation, replication, and continuous improvement of manufacturing methods, equipment, systems, and infrastructure to achieve operating, quality, cost, and efficiency objectives.

Standardize best practices and strengthen problem solving across RIOP, with emphasis on Ramp, high-energy hazards, and TAKT-versus-cycle-time performance.

Prioritize resource requests, assign appropriate manufacturing engineering support, track projects, and ensure effective deployment of solutions across sites.

What Makes This Role Exciting This role provides the opportunity to influence manufacturing performance across RIOP’s global factory network. The successful candidate will connect manufacturing engineering teams across sites, rapidly scale proven solutions, and help shape common approaches to safety, Ramp execution, automation, digital manufacturing, and process optimization.

What Skills You Will Have Decision Making and Critical Thinking:

Applies structured critical-thinking techniques to gather and organize relevant information, identify and prioritize concerns, consider…