Quality Engineer

Manufacturing

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About LPSD

The Large Power Systems Division (LPSD) is part of Caterpillar’s Power & Energy segment. Through this global organization, Caterpillar designs and manufactures large (greater than 18 liters) diesel and natural gas engines, powertrains and key engine systems. LPSD products and solutions support customers across power generation, industrial, marine, oil & gas, rail, services and Cat® machine applications worldwide.

LPSD teams work across regions and functions to deliver safe, reliable and compliant solutions that help solve our customers’ toughest challenges

Summary

Quality Engineers at the Lafayette Engine Center support Caterpillar’s quality strategy in one of two ways, as a proactive engineer focusing on preventing issues before they occur or as an engineer who investigates in real time when events happen.

Engineers focusing on preventative measures are responsible for planning, deploying, and sustaining quality into products and processes using Caterpillar’s Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and New Product Introduction (NPI) frameworks. They are accountable for quality leadership across new products and new capital programs, from concept through production validation and launch.

Engineers focusing on reacting in real time, lead formal corrective action investigations and problem-solving projects. These engineers are integral to keeping up our operations and ensuring a quality product.

The Quality Engineering role emphasizes prevention-based quality fundamentals, front-end risk identification, and cross-functional execution to ensure robust, capable processes and successful launches.

• •Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
• •Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
• •Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
• •Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
• •Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.

Collaborating: Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.

• •Demonstrates experience participating in productive collaborative processes.
• •Under guidance, initiates collaborative meetings.
• •Assists in communicating shared goals with diverse groups and parties.
• •Helps promote collaboration across generations, functions, regions, and levels.
• •Helps solve business problems and meet business goals through collaborative processes.

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

• •Explains characteristics and steps in an effective decision-making process.
• •Identifies issues and communicates with others when a decision needs to be made.
• •Names decision makers in own environment and cites examples of past decisions.
• •Describes types of decisions incumbent may and may not make in own job or function.

Flexibility and Adaptability: Knowledge of successful approaches and techniques for dealing with change; ability to adapt to a changing environment and be comfortable with change.

• •Explains the perspective that change is inevitable.
• •Seeks value in new ways of doing things.
• •Easily copes with day-to-day frustrations, adversities and uncertainties.
• •Provides examples of flexible and inflexible behavior in the face of change.

Problem Solving: 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.

• •Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• •Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• •Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
• •Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
• •Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.

• •Identifies project management tools and