Manufacturing Engineering Manager – Electric Power

Career Area

Manufacturing

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Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back‑up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world‑class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands.

We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

The Manufacturing Engineering Manager leads manufacturing engineering execution and production readiness for the Electric Power operations team in Griffin, GA. This role is responsible for driving safety, quality, and operational performance in a high‑volume assembly environment by leading a team of engineers, owning capital and process improvements, and ensuring manufacturing systems support efficient, reliable production. This leader will play a critical role in strengthening accountability, advancing continuous improvement efforts, and supporting new product introduction (NPI) from design through production.

• Lead and develop a team of manufacturing engineers, driving performance, accountability and technical capability
• Own manufacturing readiness, including process validation, standard work and production support
• Drive a safety‑first culture and reinforce safety behaviors across manufacturing operations
• Execute and manage capital projects (CAPEX) and indirect spend to improve capacity, efficiency and reliability
• Partner cross‑functionally with Operations, Quality, Engineering and Supply Chain to resolve production issues and improve performance
• Support new product introduction (NPI) and Design for Manufacturing (DFM) to ensure successful product launches
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on throughput, cycle time and cost
• Improve manufacturing quality performance (DPU) and production stability
• Ensure effective technical onboarding, training and development of engineering talent
• Operate with urgency to support production uptime and fast‑paced operational demands

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experience

• Capacity Planning & Management - MFG
  • Documents major considerations of product promotions and analyzes their effect on production and required capacity.
  • Provides management reports on actual and projected capacity requirements.
  • Uses available tools to interpret forecasts and work out required capacity.
  • Participates in developing short‑term capacity requirements for a specific product or plant.
  • Collects and collates key elements of demand chain used in developing capacity requirements.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking
  • Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision‑making process.
  • Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
  • Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
  • Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
  • Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.
• Lean Manufacturing
  • Manages the adoption of lean manufacturing principles across the organization.
  • Teaches others about how lean approach integrates operations, customers, logistics and product development.
  • Consults on work cell design and plan layout in support of lean…