Mapleton Foundry IT Application Lead

## Mapleton Foundry IT Application Lead Apply locations:
Mapleton, Illinois:
Pontiac, Illinois time type:
Full time posted on:
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** Career Area:
** Technology, Digital and Data
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* Job Description:

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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.

Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

This role will provide application expertise to the Mapleton Castings and other Large Power manufacturing facilities. This is a critical role in bridging operational business processes with IT solutions, ensuring technology directly enables operational performance, reliability, and business success.

The ideal candidate brings deep understanding of manufacturing operations, strong business acumen, and the ability to influence across cross functional teams. This role requires someone who can translate shop‐floor and plant‐level needs into scalable, sustainable IT solutions while balancing priorities.
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* What You Will Do:

*** Serve as IT liaison across manufacturing initiatives partnering closely with onsite IT resources, cross-business functional teams, as well as extended IT organizations and third-party providers.
* Analyze and understand end‐to‐end manufacturing processes, aligning them with enabling IT capabilities.
* Enhance and optimize use of manufacturing systems, with a strong emphasis on ERP / MES Solutions.
* Serve as a trusted advisor to manufacturing and technology stakeholders by clearly communicating tradeoffs, risks, and value.
* Identify opportunities to leverage data, analytics, and AI‐enabled solutions to improve decision‐making, efficiency, and operational outcomes.
** What You Have:
*** Advanced experience in IT with manufacturing applications experience.
* Demonstrated advanced functional knowledge of MFG Pro and other ERP / MES Solutions.
* Proven business acumen, particularly in manufacturing, operations, and supply chain.
* Excellent soft skills, including communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management.
* Strong prioritization capabilities effectively managing competing demands.
** Top Candidates Will Have:
*** Experience supporting or integrating with various ERP and MES systems in a manufacturing or enterprise context.
* Familiarity with data solutions, reporting platforms, or manufacturing analytics.
* Experience applying AI or advanced analytics to solve operational or business problems**.
**** Skills Descriptors:
**** Core Application Systems:
*** Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations**.
*** Manages application-related issues, implications, and approaches with clients.
* Evaluates key interfaces and interdependencies among core applications systems.
* Explains features and benefits of core applications for consideration by business…