Caterpillar, Inc

Senior Supply Chain Planning Engineer

Caterpillar, Inc$128K — $192K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, or a related field.
  • 5-7 years of experience in supply chain or manufacturing planning roles.
  • Strong understanding of S&OP and demand-driven planning principles.
  • Proficiency with ERP systems and planning platforms, particularly SAP IBP or Kinaxis.
  • Excellent analytical and project management skills, with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and experience working in complex environments.
  • Professional certification such as APICS CPIM, CSCP, or comparable credential is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the deployment of a standard enterprise S&OP operating model.
  • Standardize S&OP processes across all machines, engines, and components.
  • Integrate demand-driven planning principles into S&OP execution.
  • Manage long-term demand planning, translating it into capacity and resource requirements.
  • Identify and make supply, material, and capacity constraints explicit for decision readiness.
  • Develop scenario analyses to evaluate tradeoffs among service, inventory, and capacity.
  • Support executive forums with data-driven insights and modeling options.

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
Full Job Description
Career Area:
Supply Chain and Logistics

Job Description:

Responsible for the design, standardization, and deployment of a common, demand driven S&OP process across machines, engines, and components. This role enables consistent, constraint based planning and decision-making by integrating demand signals, long-term forecasts, capacity drivers, and analytics within the enterprise S&OP framework.

What You Will Do:
  • Lead deployment of a standard enterprise S&OP operating model, including planning horizons, cadence, inputs/outputs, and decision rights.
  • Standardize S&OP processes across machines, engines, and components, ensuring structural alignment of demand, supply, and capacity plans.
  • Integrate demand driven planning principles (signal based demand, buffers, decoupling points, flow based metrics) into S&OP execution.
  • Own long-term demand planning (12-36+ months), translating demand into capacity, labor, tooling, and capital requirements.
  • Enable constraint based S&OP by making supply, material, and capacity constraints explicit and decision ready.
  • Develop and support scenario analyses to evaluate tradeoffs across service, inventory, margin, and capacity recovery.
  • Ensure capacity plans are synchronized across machines, engines, and components, with clear visibility to bottlenecks and dependencies.
  • Interpret order behavior, backlog trends, and demand signals to shape planning recommendations.
  • Support executive S&OP forums with data driven insights, modeled options, and decision implications.
  • Define and reinforce S&OP governance, standard work, and adoption metrics.
  • Collaborate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, IT, and Commercial teams to ensure alignment and execution readiness.


Education Preference:
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, or related field preferred but not required.


Job Impact
  • Improves consistency and quality of S&OP execution across machines, engines, and components.
  • Enables faster, more disciplined decision-making under demand and capacity constraints.
  • Supports enterprise transition to a demand driven manufacturing planning model.


What Skills You Will Have:

Effectiveness Measurement
  • Interprets and reports performance metrics against benchmarks to support improvement initiatives.
  • Establishes improvement goals and develops action plans using assigned measurement tools.

Analytical Thinking
  • Breaks down complex problems to identify root causes using appropriate analytical tools.
  • Evaluates alternatives by assessing costs, risks, and likelihood of success before recommending solutions.

Cross Team Integration
  • Builds strong internal networks that promote information sharing and collaboration across teams.
  • Identifies synergies and integration barriers to improve cross functional effectiveness.

Decision Making & Critical Thinking
  • Applies structured decision-making techniques to analyze issues and prioritize concerns.
  • Gathers and organizes relevant data to evaluate risks, benefits, and alternatives.

Project Management
  • Plans, staffs, and monitors complex projects using established cost, schedule, and risk management tools.
  • Communicates project status and conducts reviews to ensure alignment with objectives and stakeholders.

Standard Operating Procedures
  • Reviews and updates SOPs to improve efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance.
  • Monitors adherence to procedures and evaluates effectiveness for continuous improvement.

Supplier Management - Manufacturing
  • Manages routine supplier interactions to ensure delivery, quality, and issue resolution.
  • Supports supplier selection and collaborates with vendors to meet operational requirements.

Supply Chain Management - Manufacturing
  • Participates in supply chain analysis to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
  • Supports defined segments of the supply chain using appropriate systems and processes.


Technical & Functional Skills

Planning Systems & ERP Experience
  • Familiarity with enterprise grade ERP platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle) including demand/supply, BOMs, routings, and planning parameters.
  • Strong ability to translate planning needs into system requirements within SAP IBP or Kinaxis.

Planning & Analytics Platforms
  • Experience with cloud based planning tools for forecasting, S&OP modeling, and scenario development (SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9, Anaplan, etc.).

Data & Visualization Tools
  • Proficiency with Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent for dashboards and KPI reporting.
  • Data modeling and analytics skills preferred (SQL, Python, Databricks).

Data Integration & Engineering Familiarity
  • Exposure to SQL, Python, Databricks, or similar tools used in planning model development and analytics workflows.

Manufacturing & Capacity Knowledge
  • Understanding of manufacturing capacity drivers (labor cells, machining centers, test stands, supplier constraints).
  • Ability to work across portfolios with varying levels of planning maturity and product complexity.

Collaboration Tools
  • Experience using SharePoint, Teams, and similar tools for governance documentation, standard work, and S&OP meeting content.


Top Candidates Will Also Have:
  • Strong background in manufacturing planning disciplines such as S&OP, Integrated Business Planning (IBP), and/or capacity planning.
  • Proven experience deploying and sustaining standardized planning processes across multiple product portfolios or value streams.
  • Solid understanding of demand driven planning principles and constraint based decision-making.
  • Demonstrated success working cross functionally in complex manufacturing environments.
  • Experience improving organizational planning maturity and leading S&OP evolution.
  • Exposure to enterprise planning platforms such as SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9, or Anaplan.
  • Professional certification such as APICS CPIM, CSCP, or comparable credential.


Additional Details:
  • This position is based in Peoria, IL or Dallas, TX.
  • Onsite work is required five days per week.
  • Relocation assistance is not available for this role.
  • Visa sponsorship is not offered.
  • Travel is expected to be up to 40%.


Summary Pay Range:

$128,470.00 - $192,710.00

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:
May 21, 2026 - May 31, 2026

About Caterpillar, Inc

Progress Rail Services Corporation, a Caterpillar company, is one of the largest integrated and diversified suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services worldwide. Since its acquisition by Caterpillar Inc. in 2006, Progress Rail has used the Caterpillar international footprint to gain quick and widespread notice and approval across the globe. Product technology, reliability and durability, along with legendary aftermarket parts and service support, have been their keys to success. Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. The technology and world reach of Caterpillar, combined with the service standard and historical reliability of Progress Rail, ensures their products and services make a growing impact on the world rail industry. With their acquisition of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), Progress Rail is the world's largest builder of diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications including freight, intercity passenger, commuter, switching, industrial and mining. EMD is also a global provider of diesel power engines for marine propulsion, offshore and land based oil well drilling rigs and stationary power generation. Electro-Motive is the only diesel engine manufacturer of its size to have produced more than 70,000 engines. This success stems from product reliability, serviceability, load acceptance capability, low operating costs and ease of maintenance with standardized components.

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Learn more about Caterpillar, Inc
Size
107,700 employees
Market Cap
$125.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.9 billion
Founded
1925
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$41.7 billion
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