Product Change Control Engineer

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Job Description:

Role Definition:

As a Product Change Control Engineer at our Pontiac facility, you will coordinate engineering releasing activities between engineering design areas and procurement/scheduling and other process partners with effective and timely implementation.

What You Will Do:

• Analyzing engineering releases, changes, drawing notices to create change management requirements, providing the creation of product structure based on engineering design.
• Maintaining close team relationships with releasing analysts, as well as teams in manufacturing operations, process planning, engineering design, and material planning.
• Proven ability to drive accountability across teams and process partners, ensuring implementation milestones and deadlines are met.
• Proven ability to analyze and manage complex data from multiple ongoing projects, prioritize competing demands, and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.

What You Have:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.

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.

• Maintains a strong internal network that promotes informal collaboration.
• Shares information that may be relevant to other teams across divisions.
• Assesses the potential synergies from combining common practices across teams.

Data Gathering & Analysis: Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes; ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion, goal, or judgment.

• Participates in gathering and analyzing an organization's data based on requirements.
• Follows proper data gathering and analysis processes and policies.
• Documents data from various sources and in various formats.

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.

Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP): Knowledge of the processes, practices and systems used in manufacturing requirements planning (MRP); ability to optimize planning for manufacturing cycles and ensure capacity and materials availability.

• Describes basic concepts of materials and capacity management processes and procedures.
• Describes the use of bills of materials and other documentation needed to provide supplies.
• Clearly understands BoM management and ownership of Parts setup, releasing and how different elements of a part setup interacts with MRP Processes.

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.

• Utilizes accepted procedures for problem analysis and resolution.
• Identifies key aspects of problem-solving techniques used in own area.

Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.

• Interprets process flow diagrams.
• Explains differences between a process and a project.
• Identifies process management initiatives in own area.
• Describes key business processes in own area.

Production Scheduling and Control: Knowledge of procedures and tools for scheduling and controlling production runs; ability to utilize knowledge of daily manufacturing processes to assure quality deliverables.

• Describes key aspects of production control.
• Identifies types of problems that can affect production schedules.
• Lists major activities performed by production control staff.
• Locates information regarding fundamental practices and policies.

Top Candidates May Also Have:

• Experience using Microsoft Office 365 applications, with a focus on Excel and Power BI.
• Demonstrated intermediate proficiency in Excel (data analysis, formulas) and Power BI (reporting and dashboards).

Additional Information:

• This position requires the selected candidate to work on-site five days a week in the Pontiac, IL facility.
• Domestic relocation assistance is available.
• VISA sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Summary Pay Range:

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar. 

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

• 401(k) savings plans*

• Health Savings Account (HSA)*

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

• Health Lifestyle Programs*

• Employee Assistance Program*

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

• Career Development*

• Incentive bonus*

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.