Senior Facility Procurement Manager

Overview

Career Area: Procurement

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.

About SPM Oil & Gas

SPM Oil & Gas, a Caterpillar company, provides superior products and service solutions to make our customers more efficient and lower total cost of ownership. Globally, we deliver engineered oilfield and drilling equipment repair and certification, mechanical and rotating equipment repairs and upgrades, rapid prototyping of spare parts, robust asset management, operation and maintenance and field engineering services. We offer a wide range of career opportunities across a variety of technical and business roles in engineering and service locations worldwide.

Join our team and help build engineering solutions that change the industry.

About the Role

The Senior Facility Procurement Manager leads supply related activities for the facility to deliver excellence and integration between procurement and the team supporting facility. This is a global role with sourcing responsibility for the Eastern and Western hemisphere with an acute focus on supply resiliency and total landed cost in a dynamic environment. Strategic sourcing decisions and execution are critically important to enabling the success of the business.

Additional Information
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• No sponsorship available
• This position is based in Fort Worth, Texas
• This position does offer relocation
• This role requires working onsite 5 days a week

• Leads the execution of delivering a lean, responsive, and resilient material and services flow for the facility from source to dock and additional required points.
• Leads the strategy, sourcing, negotiation, and supplier management for all indirect (non-production goods and services) spend categories to optimize cost, quality, and operational performance.
• Oversees a team that is responsible for operating and monitoring the supply network procurement functions to meet the defined response time, cost, quality, and lean targets enabling optimal and efficient facility operations.
• Ensures the supplier network is capable of meeting the specific facilities’ Quality, Cost, Logistics, Development, Management (QCLDM) requirements.
• Responsible for supplier quality leading a team of supplier development engineers that will perform PPAPs and initiate supplier corrective actions for defects.
• Collaborates with business partners and suppliers and resolving facility specific supplier issues.
• Support NPI / NTI programs through identification and development of sources of supply.

• 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
• 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
• Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation
• Team Management: Knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams
• Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice
• Procurement Function: Knowledge of responsibilities, accountabilities, and organization of procurement function; ability to perform tasks and activities of the procurement functions or department
• Purchasing Tasks and
  
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