Product Change Control Engineer

Manufacturing

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Product Change Control Engineer

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 function to deliver safe, reliable and compliant solutions that help solve our customers’ toughest challenges.

About LEC (Lafayette Engine Center)

The Lafayette Engine Center (LEC) manufactures the Cat 3500, Cat 3600 and C175 engines helping Caterpillar become the world’s leading manufacturer of off-highway diesel and natural gas engines.

The units built at LEC power mining trucks carrying ore to be processed, tugboats guiding ships to harbor, drill rigs tapping oil and gas reserves and generators bringing electricity to communities, hospitals and data centers.

• •5+ years of logistics or supply chain experience
• •MAMM experience
• •Experience and knowledge of lean concepts and tools
• •Computer Aided Drafting knowledge
• •Budget or Capital Management experience
• •Project Management experience

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

• •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.

Cross-Team Integration: Understanding of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team.

• •Identifies the key teams or work groups whose work is closely related.
• •Applies the concept of collaboration to build relationships and coordinate with other teams.
• •Demonstrates the ability to coordinate work so that it can help more than one team.
• •Seeks help to secure support from another team when necessary.

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.

Manufacturing Application Systems: Knowledge of company and industry databases and applications used in a manufacturing environment; ability to operate, maintain and update these systems.

• •Explains general flow of information throughout the manufacturing process and the supply chain.
• •Identifies major types of applications and information systems used in manufacturing.
• •Identifies core company, proprietary and public information sources.
• •Describes the type of information maintained in manufacturing application systems and identifies its primary uses and users.

Manufacturing

• •Describes basic concepts of materials and capacity management processes and procedures.
• •Describes product life cycle and associated MRP cycle.
• •Identifies parameters and considerations used in making decisions about production runs.
• •Describes the use of bills of materials and other documentation needed to provide supplies.

Planning and Organizing: Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.

• •Seeks help to modify priorities as new information surfaces or conditions change.
• •Dem