Supply Chain Planning Engineer

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.

Supply Chain and Logistics

• This position is responsible for the daily Clean To Build scheduling for the Assembly and Packaging processes at the Lafayette Engine Center.
• Collaborates with Industry Group liaisons to ensure customer priority is considered in all scheduling activity.
• Drive collaboration between internal departments (Machine Shop, Procurement, Assembly, Packaging) to create the most efficient build plan possible based on material availability and factory position.
• Lead the daily LPSD Clean to Build process meeting for 3500, 3600, & C175 as well as Clean to Ship initiatives.
• Lead daily cross function meetings between Supply Chain and Packaging to ensure the daily Packaging Plan aligns with material availability.
• Report out on assembly and Packaging daily results and build status and speaks to roadblocks to the daily plan.
• Lead the effort to develop flexibility/agility targets at a component level to ensure our supply base can consistently deliver material in the timeframe required to satisfy customer expectations.
• Develop and enhance tools & processes to proactively assess our supply base’s ability to meet potential volume increases (supplier ramp/risk assessment process).
• This position addresses day-to-day supplier constraints to improve factory’s performance and its ability to rapidly respond to business requirements.

Bachelor’s degree from college or university related to Supply Chain, Engineering or Business Management or applicable experience.

• Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business Management or similar discipline.
• Strong understanding of engine flow through each of the LEC Assembly and Packaging lines.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel (formulas, equations, macros, VLookup).
• Advanced proficiency with Power BI and SQL knowledge and experience (ability to create and expand).
• Working knowledge and understanding of lean concepts and tools.
• Working knowledge of supply chain planning processes and analytical tools.
• Working knowledge of common supply chain systems.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Extremely strong collaborative, interpersonal and negotiation skills in order to drive common supply chain processes across multiple departments within a facility.
• Previous leadership experience.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to creatively solve very complex problems.
• Thorough understanding of company policies and procedures and solid product knowledge.
• A background in Supply Chain, Manufacturing / Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Inventory Management, Material Requirements Planning, Demand Management and/or Logistics is highly desired.

• Business Process Improvement:
  Extensive Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business related activities.
• Analytical Thinking:
  Extensive Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
  Extensive Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Problem Solving:
  Extensive Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Project…