Sr. Product Procurement Engineer

Location: Mossville

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.

The Senior Product Procurement Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring supplier and network capacity readiness to support growing business demand across Resource Industries Supply Management (RISM). In this role, you will lead Network Planning & Execution (NPE) capacity initiatives, by leveraging Caterpillar's enterprise tools, analytics, and supplier partnerships to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate capacity risks.

As demand continues to expand, you will be at the cutting edge of supply network growth, helping design and implement scalable solutions that enable the business to win. The role partners closely with suppliers, category teams, engineering, manufacturing, and enterprise stakeholders to align demand, capacity assumptions, and mitigation plans. In addition, this role owns and facilitates a cross‑functional capacity alignment forum (RISM OBEYA) to drive alignment, rapid issue resolution, and disciplined execution of supplier and network capacity mitigation actions.

What makes this role exciting:

RISM is rapidly growing, and this role is central to enabling that growth as demand continues to increase. You will operate at the leading edge of capacity planning and network expansion, helping shape how Caterpillar scales its global supply base. This is a highly visible role that partners closely with procurement, engineering, manufacturing, and leadership to solve complex, real‑time capacity challenges.

The work is dynamic, strategic, and impactful. In this role, you will be able to help transform uncertainty into actionable solutions that keep the enterprise moving forward.

What you will do:

* Utilize existing enterprise tools to develop repeatable processes that identify and resolve near‑term and long‑term supplier and network capacity risks within the RISM supply base.

* Lead NPE capacity planning activities, using enterprise planning tools to assess supplier and network readiness against business demand.

* Drive capacity collaboration with suppliers and internal stakeholders to align demand signals, capacity assumptions, and mitigation plans.

* Own and execute Enterprise Capacity Requirements - Supplier (ECR‑S) processes to capture supplier capacity needs, identify gaps, and drive mitigation actions.

* Lead supplier capacity alignment activities (SCOPE) to reduce demand volatility and minimize cyclical demand signals.

* Develop and maintain capacity predictive analytics to forecast constraints, evaluate scenarios, and support proactive, data‑driven decision making.

* Ensure capacity plans align with category strategies, supplier capabilities, and enterprise network priorities.

* Establish standard work, KPIs, and dashboards to monitor supplier capacity readiness, risk exposure, and mitigation progress.

* Drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned from capacity issues and deploying best practices across the supply network.

* Communicate supplier capacity risks, trade‑offs, and recommendations clearly to senior leadership and cross‑functional partners.

* Own and facilitate RISM OBEYA, including agenda development, facilitation, issue escalation, decision tracking, and follow‑up to ensure timely execution of mitigation actions.

* Lead RISM strategic projects around Process Excellence & Governance, Sustainable Value Creation, Supply Resiliency, Quality & Defect-Free Culture, and Aftermarket Growth.

* As we are the RISM transformation team, agility and flexibility in the role is required.

What skills you will have:

* Data-driven Decision Making:
Knowledge of the data‑driven decision‑making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to gather, analyze, and…