**Career Area:** Manufacturing **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. **Your Work Shapes the World** Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe. When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us. **Job Summary:** This exciting opportunity will place you in a key role in the Electrical and Electronic Component Quality team. Ensures that products being built and processes being used adhere to all standards and requirements. **What You Will Do:** **Key Responsibilities Include:** + Analyze electrical and electronic component quality at machine production facilities, provide on-site support to resolve emerging issues and discover potential improvement opportunities. + Proactively identify high impact failure modes to improve component integration into product designs. + Identify and implement opportunities to improve existing processes or products across the Electrical and Electronic Component Department to achieve optimum quality. + Analyze product requirements and statistical data to determine standards and establish quality and reliability objectives. This position impacts key quality goals including Customer Satisfaction, Continuous Improvement, Timeliness, Accuracy, Efficiency, Cost Savings, Vendor Certification, Internal Quality Certification, ISO 9000 Certification, etc. **Education Requirement:** A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Manufacturing or 6-8 years of experience in lieu of degree **What Skills You Will Have:** **Quality Management:** • Interprets results of quantitative and statistical tools and explains results to others. • Communicates key benefits of a quality management process. • Conducts and directs quality reviews. • Develops expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards. • Develops quality assurance processes based on Six Sigma, ISO 9000 or Baldrige principles. • Develops programs for motivating employees to meet or exceed quality goals. **Accuracy and Attention to Detail:** • Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices. • Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy. • Productively balances speed and accuracy. • Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms. • Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards. • Employs techniques for motivating employees to meet or exceed accuracy goals. **Decision Making and Critical Thinking:** • Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks. • Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process. • Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact. • Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives. • Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus. • Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions. **Flexibility and Adaptability:** • Creates processes with provisions to accommodate change. • Helps others adapt to changing environments and accept new situations. • Recovers from disappointments and setbacks. • Works effectively with unstructured teams, situations, or environments. • Leverages prior experience as a help towards handling changing situations. • Makes progress in an atmosphere of ambiguity and uncertainty. **Problem Solving:** • Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort. • Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts. • Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate. • Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes. • Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies. • Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems. **Relationship Management:** • Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties. • Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship. • Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes. • Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors. • Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities. • Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships. **Project Management:** • Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time. • Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects. • Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans. • Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients. • Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties. • Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms. **Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies:** • Consults on development and implementation of cross-functional standards. • Participates in the development of organizational policies and practices. • Develops and uses control and monitoring mechanisms for adherence. • Collaborates with other functions on establishing and documenting joint standards. • Participates in defining architectural principles and standards for organization. • Ensures communication vehicles are effectively informing affected areas and employees. **Top Candidates will also have** • Strong communication, especially passion and vision to drive results in a simple and effective manner • Cooperation and influence skills to work with all levels of employees and customers, especially with leadership management employees • Quality tools knowledge and the ability to teach manufacturing/engineering employees how to properly apply quality tools or techniques • Inquisitive, exploratory questioning to aid in proactive monitoring or audits to see what’s really going on and why things are happening • Experience in multiple cross-functional areas & processes within the company; design, manufacturing, planning, procurement, assembly, quality, and Lean. • Data analytics – the ability to request or mine their own data (field, AQE, MyNPI, etc) to understand areas of focus. • Prior experience working in a manufacturing environment or in the quality field is desired. **Additional Information** The location for this position is Mossville, IL. Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position. This position may require up to 35% travel. **What You Will Get:** Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides: + Competitive Base Salary + Annual incentive bonus plan* + Medical, dental, and vision coverage + Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.) + 401k savings plan + Health savings account (HSA) + Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) + Short and long-term disability coverage + Life Insurance + Paid parental leave + Healthy Lifestyle Programs + Employee Assistance Programs + Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection) *Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines. **Final details** Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status. _This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at_ _www.Caterpillar.com/Careers_ _._ For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media \#LI Relocation is available for this position. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers. **Posting Dates:** November 1, 2024 - November 15, 2024 Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen. EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply. Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .