Manager Manufacturing Engineering

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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.

Manufacturing

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 Manufacturing Engineering Manager is responsible for leading a team of project managers accountable for planning, executing, and delivering capital projects that install new machinery, equipment, tooling, automation, and supporting infrastructure across manufacturing operations. This role establishes the team vision, operating rhythm, project governance, and performance expectations required to safely deliver equipment installations that achieve defined capacity, quality, cost, schedule, and operational readiness targets.

The position requires strong manufacturing engineering leadership, disciplined project management, cross-functional influence, supplier coordination, and the ability to hold project teams accountable from concept development through design, funding, procurement, installation, commissioning, validation, production release, and final handoff to operations.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of project managers responsible for capital equipment, machinery installation, process improvement, automation, tooling, and facility readiness projects.
• Work with team to ensure projects achieve project deliverables, including, safety requirements, quality objectives, cost performance, schedule commitments, production readiness, and target capacity execution.
• Review project capacity assumptions, equipment cycle times, labor requirements, material flow, layout impacts, bottlenecks, and contingency plans to confirm projects can deliver required production output.
• Develop a culture of accountability, collaboration, urgency, continuous improvement, data-driven decision making, and ownership for project results.
• Develop project managers through coaching, performance feedback, technical guidance, and stretch assignments that strengthen project leadership capability.

• College degree in a technical curriculum; equivalent experience may be considered where appropriate.

Capacity Planning & Management - MFG:
Working knowledge of tools, approaches and practices for determining production demand and ability to manage resources needed to provide satisfactory levels of service.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
Working knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Lean Manufacturing:
Extensive knowledge of the philosophy, principles and implementation approaches of lean manufacturing; ability to integrate and implement lean manufacturing philosophy into existing production and management processes.

Manufacturing Processes:
Extensive knowledge of existing product manufacturing methods, technologies and processes;…