Career Area:

Engineering

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.

Role Definition

Provides technical and consulting support for compliance programs and processes and conducts compliance audits to identify and address opportunities for improvement. Engineering Process lean advisor for engineering process optimization and streamlining.

 Responsibilities

• Developing, implementing and monitoring compliance strategies, policies, and guidelines across the organization.
• Reporting to management on identification of any compliance issues and providing appropriate resolution to address those issues.
• Organizing internal audit, investigating compliance issues, and providing solutions on quality and compliance issues.
• Monitoring and reviewing regulations and policies to update compliance requirement, and adjust organizational procedures to assure compliance.
• Establishing and maintaining healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
• Engineering process development, optimization, maintenance according to the requirement
• SEM Hardware and standard parts management, including development, maintenance, simplification  
• SEM technical standard development, maintenance

Degree Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Contributes to short-term operational plans.
• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
• Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

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.

Level Working Knowledge:

• 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.

Customer/Market Focus: Understanding of the importance of remaining aware of shifting market priorities and ability to respond to internal and external customer needs in a manner that consistently adds value.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Surfaces new or unexpressed customer needs.
• Focuses product and service features and functions on the customer's critical success factors.
• Develops consistent methods for maintaining customer responsiveness.
• Delivers customer value within parameters of profitability and other targets.
• Escalates systemic problems that could affect customer satisfaction.

 Quality Management: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Utilizes quality indicators relevant to own unit or function.
• Adheres to organizational quality management processes and practices.
• Applies key aspects of continuous improvement processes and evaluates impact on quality.
• Uses quality evaluation tools and techniques such as walkthroughs and inspections.
• Works with quality assurance methods, tools and techniques.

Risk Management: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply knowledge of risk management appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Debates the pros and cons of various risk management models.
• Implements function-wide risk management processes and tools.
• Designs cross-functional risk management processes, tools, and audit mechanisms.
• Measures key benefits and drawbacks for specific risk management practices.
• Relates risk assessment models and analysis tools and processes to own business.
• Establishes key business-specific risk management benchmarks.

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

Level Extensive Experience:

• 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.

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

Level Extensive Experience:

• Demonstrates experience engendering collaborative processes that lead to problem solving and the achievement of business goals.
• Establishes shared goals to foster collaboration.
• Ensures that everyone can access the same data and provide input into how business is conducted.
• Redesigns physical areas to allow for collaboration and private time.
• Deemphasizes divides; focuses on collaboration across generations, functions, regions, and levels.
• Implements methods for people to come together on the fly to make decisions, solve problems, and develop products/services.

Audit and Compliance Function: Knowledge of major responsibilities and tasks of Audit and Compliance (A&C) function; ability to manage the operation of A&C function in various business environment.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Manages one or more A&C functions or units.
• Facilitates compliance-related business process implementation or improvement initiatives.
• Implements specific organizational changes made in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
• Contributes to development of A&C strategies and plans.
• Improves key relationships and dependencies among Audit, IT and other business functions.
• Contributes to the establishment of best practices for A&C.

Data Gathering and Reporting: Knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Prepares cost-benefit analyses of alternative approaches.
• Analyzes complex reports as revealed by the data.
• Teaches others the calculations necessary to capture data and develop more complex reports.
• Oversees multiple data-gathering and analysis initiatives.
• Participates in developing criteria for selecting data gathering and reporting tools and techniques for various projects.
• Reviews and verifies data and reports for accuracy.

Manufacturing Regulatory Environment: Knowledge of federal, state and local manufacturing related laws and regulations; ability to comply with relevant laws and regulations in manufacturing practices and activities.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Applies regulatory programs as needed to comply with major products, processes or business areas.
• Provides recommendations and solutions to existing and potential legal problems.
• Consults on the main considerations and issues related to laws and regulations in manufacturing practices.
• Interprets compliance and authorization requirements for product design and implementation.
• Collaborates with all departments of a manufacturing organization for the external audits.
• Generates regular reports on violations of manufacturing laws and regulations across the organization.

Posting Dates:

August 30, 2024 - September 19, 2024

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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