Manufacturing Engineer 5

Manufacturing Engineer 5

The role just opened today and will close on Friday, 26th September.

The ideal candidate would have 10 years of experience in fuel injector manufacturing and assembly. If such a candidate is not available, look for someone from an automotive background with strong experience in assembly line, manufacturing, APQP, and PFMEA.

Duration - 12 months contract with possible extension

Location - Pontiac, Illinois – Onsite role

Client - Caterpillar

Visa - No visa restrictions

Relocation - Fine with relocation candidates

Position's contributions to work group:

- Providing technical expertise to aspects of production, cost, quality, and compliance to safety for the assembly of fuel injectors

Candidate value proposition:

• Why Caterpillar?

• For this role within your business group – what stands out about this opportunity (ex – exposure, skill development, etc)? Why Caterpillar? "Whether it be ground-breaking products, best in class solutions or a lifelong career, you can build what matters to you at Caterpillar. With 150 locations in countries around the world, what you create at Caterpillar travels and helps people around the world. You can collaborate with the best minds in the industry, complete meaningful work and continuously grow and develop through our various opportunities. Here, you can do the work that matters."

Why this role?

- Exposure to complex processes to manufacture and assemble fuel injectors

- Development of both manufacturing processes and assembly processes and the interactions between one another

- This role is key to the development of work class process and risk mitigation for fuel systems for Caterpillar.

Typical task breakdown:

- Troubleshooting assembly equipment if needed

- Assisting in process improvements for current assembly process

- Understanding and walking back issues that occur due to first test pass failures

- Creating and updating all APQP elements

Interaction with team:

- Cross functional work with quality, manufacturing engineering, and operations

Team structure:

- Work with 13 other manufacturing engineers and test engineers on the team reporting up through tech service manager

Work environment:

- Offices are located inside of factory work setting

Education & experience required:

- Years of experience: Min of 10 years of experience

- Degree requirement: Bachelor's degree

- Do you accept internships as job experience: Yes

- Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: Manufacturing Engineer, Assembly Engineer

Technical skills (required):

- Ability to facilitate and create all APQP elements including process flow, control plan and process failure modes and effect analysis (PFMEA)

- Excell

- PowerPoint

- Teams

Technical skills (desired):

- Assembly and test experience

Soft skills (required):

- Facilitate and host cross functional meetings in person and virtual

- Manage priorities across multiple projects