Director, Modern Manufacturing IT Capabilities

Career Area

Technology, Digital and Data

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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.

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The Director of Modern Manufacturing IT Capabilities is a global platform owner responsible for architecting, delivering, and scaling the digital systems that power world class manufacturing. This leader defines and executes the enterprise strategy for modern ERP (SAP S/4

HANA + QAD), MES, plant systems, and integration platforms, transforming a complex, heterogeneous legacy landscape into a modern digital foundation that enables high precision, high velocity operations at global scale.

This role is accountable for building and institutionalizing deep ERP and manufacturing systems expertise across the enterprise, ensuring capabilities are not only deployed but embedded as durable, repeatable, globally consistent competencies. You will operate as a principal builder, shaping digital factories, unifying fragmented systems, simplifying architecture, and delivering solutions that directly elevate safety, quality, throughput, sustainability, and cost competitiveness.

• Own the multiyear technical strategy and capability roadmap for ERP, MES, plant systems, and enterprise grade integration, ensuring scalability, standardization, and operational resilience
• Accelerate the transition from legacy and highly customized systems to modern, harmonized platforms with global patterns, reusable assets, and cloud ready architectures
• Tie platform evolution directly to measurable business outcomes: OEE, first pass yield, cost per unit, lead time, sustainability measures, and supply chain resilience

• Build ERP capability - deep functional and technical expertise across Plan to Produce, manufacturing engineering, scheduling, execution, quality, maintenance, and inventory
• Create global capability models: standards, development pathways, certification, playbooks, deployment kits, and architectural guardrails
• Lead enterprise enablement for SAP S/4
  
  HANA and QAD - shifting the culture from “vendor dependent” to “enterprise expert”

• Define and execute the global MES strategy - workflow orchestration, traceability, digital operator experience, real time manufacturing insights, automated quality, and digital maintenance
• Deliver platform standards for OT/IT convergence, IIoT, PLC and SCADA integration, equipment connectivity, and digital work instructions
• Advance plant systems modernization through secure, resilient, scalable, and data rich architectures

• Partner to build an end-to-end integration strategy across ERP, MES, plant systems, OT/PLC, IIoT, cloud analytics, and enterprise platforms
• Drive implementation of global integration patterns (APIs, event driven architectures, data streams) ensuring synchronized and intelligent factory operations
• Partner with Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data, and Product Engineering to ensure solutions reflect world class design and enterprise compliance

• Ensure always on reliability of all manufacturing digital platforms supporting 24/7 global operations
• Instill operational rigor - proactive stability engineering, observability, automation, zero defect releases, and lifecycle management
• Reduce technical debt, eliminate legacy fragmentation, modernize interfaces, and strengthen cyber resilience across plant technology stacks

• Lead multi region ERP/MES deployments with global template governance, end to end change management, and high velocity execution
• Apply Go See Act and structured…