Manager, Remanufacturing Supply Chain

Job Purpose

The Manager, Remanufacturing Supply Chain is the accountable business and supply chain leader responsible for building, scaling, and optimizing Progress Rail's remanufacturing value chain. The role integrates Supply Chain, Engineering, Procurement, Aftermarket, Operations, and Finance to deliver cost‑competitive, high‑quality remanufactured products with improved lead times, availability, margins, and customer value.

This position is intended to use the Caterpillar Product Lifecycle leadership structure as the closest base, while explicitly expanding accountability for remanufacturing supply chain performance, core availability, Clear‑to‑Build, lead time, cost, supplier performance, inventory, margin improvement, and commercial integration.

EMD LaGRange is also an option.

City:
La Grange
State:
Illinois

• Lead the remanufacturing supply chain strategy across product families, sites, and customer requirements.
• Create the operating model, governance cadence, KPI structure, and business roadmap required to scale remanufacturing as a growth platform.
• Act as the single accountable leader connecting Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, and Aftermarket priorities.
• Drive execution against revenue growth, cost competitiveness, margin improvement, customer availability, and inventory productivity goals.

• Own end‑to‑end planning performance from core availability and material readiness through customer delivery.
• Improve Clear‑to‑Build performance, fulfillment reliability, lead‑time predictability, and demand responsiveness.
• Establish planning discipline for critical parts, A‑items, core inventory, finished goods, and capacity constraints.
• Lead risk management and recovery actions for supply continuity, supplier constraints, obsolescence, and customer‑impacting shortages.

• Develop strategic sourcing plans that improve total cost of ownership, supplier reliability, quality, and scalability.
• Lead cost‑reduction, deflation, value engineering, should‑cost, and supplier development initiatives.
• Partner with Finance and Aftermarket to ensure cost, pricing, and margin objectives are visible and actively managed.
• Create supplier performance scorecards that include on‑time delivery, quality, responsiveness, and cost competitiveness.

• Partner with Engineering to accelerate print validation, engineering change execution, configuration management, and manufacturability improvements.
• Ensure product lifecycle decisions support remanufacturing cost, recoverability, standardization, lead time, and customer service outcomes.
• Create cross‑functional visibility to engineering constraints that affect CTB, revenue, cost, and customer commitments.

• Build and sustain a core acquisition, recovery, replenishment, and utilization strategy aligned to demand and commercial priorities.
• Improve visibility to core availability, yield, inventory turns, and recovered component flow.
• Balance service levels, working capital, core inventory, finished goods inventory, and turnaround time.

• Partner with Aftermarket Sales and Operations to improve customer responsiveness, revenue velocity, and product availability.
• Support commercial models that connect supply reliability, platforming, lead‑time improvement, cost competitiveness, and margin expansion.
• Identify product families and customer segments where remanufacturing can create differentiated value.

• Build, lead, and develop a high‑performing team grounded in accountability, collaboration, ownership, and operational discipline.
• Establish monthly and weekly operating reviews with clear escalation paths, actions, owners, and measurable outcomes.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, data‑driven decisions, cross‑functional problem solving, and customer focus.

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations Management, Business, Finance, or related discipline.