Caterpillar Brazil
**Role Definition**
Assesses the supplier quality and ensures that all the products are free from defects and are in compliance with manufacturing specifications and legal standards.
**What You Will Do**
• Ensuring the quality of supplies by conducting tests and assessments on incoming supplies to identify any quality issues; Developing supplier inspection, testing, and evaluation mechanism.
• Generating reports on supplier quality, by monitoring their defect rates and areas that can lead to potential flaws; Guiding suppliers to reduce these defect rates.
• Researching the potential vendors, assessing their manufacturing environment, practices, and procedures; Conducting supplier quality control audits to ensure compliance with organizational and federal policies and standards.
• Supporting suppliers in improving their performance through process enhancements, implementing process controls, and developing quality assurance plans.
**Degree Requirement**
Degree or equivalent experience desired
**What You Will Have**
Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems.
Level Extensive Experience:
• 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.
Process Improvement: Understanding and insight into evaluating current product quality and production methods and ability to maintains focus on the continuous improvement of processes, products and services.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Streamlines the critical workflow for executing key processes.
• Sets priorities for addressing process problems that limit performance.
• Develops methods for improving and establishing controls for critical processes.
• Monitors external sources for applicable new methods and controls.
• Analyzes findings from improvement cycles to ensure success of interventions.
• Coaches others to develop the skills to improve processes.
Quality Orientation: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Collaborates with other groups to develop quality standards that are synchronized across units.
• Defines quality from multiple perspectives - e.g., operational, employee, customer, market.
• Applies current best practices to modify standards and improve quality outcomes.
• Resolves apparent discrepancies between quality and safety objectives.
• Monitors intangible measures of quality such as perceived quality to ensure operational outcomes are relevant to stakeholders.
• Coaches team members in applying methodologies for quality assurance.
Production Part Approval Process (PPAP): Knowledge of Production Part Approval Processes (PPAP) elements, submissions, and objectives.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Develops testing and validation procedures to test the quality of manufactured parts/products so that it meets desired customer standards.
• Identifies and resolves key issues with PPAP implementation and submissions.
• Monitors the execution of PPAP steps within a facility and ensures their compliance with industry standards and internal guidelines.
• Oversees PPAP implementation; establishes a high trust relationship between stakeholders.
• Reviews the complex documentation and elements required during the PPAP submission process.
• Trains others on the execution of PPAP to get the required approvals and teaches them about the different PPAP submission levels.
Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies: Knowledge of organizational standards, procedures and policies in manufacturing activities.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Ensures communication vehicles are effectively informing affected areas and personnel.
• 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.
Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward.
• Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements.
• Develops quality standards and controls for suppliers.
• Builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers.
• Evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments.
• Ensures the fulfillment of report and record-keeping requirements.
Supplier Evaluations and Certification: Knowledge of supplier evaluations and certification.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Evaluates potential suppliers for a wide variety of products.
• Develops a preferred suppliers list for selection and evaluation.
• Designs key aspects of and processes for evaluating a supplier's capabilities.
• Compares and contrasts alternative methods and tools for the evaluation of organizations and products.
• Analyzes and resolves supplier product quality, support, or pricing problems.
• Works with multiple evaluation, selection, and certification initiatives.* Relocation assistance is not available for this position.* Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.* Location: Griffin, GA* This position requires a 5-day-a-week office presence.* 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr
Assesses the supplier quality and ensures that all the products are free from defects and are in compliance with manufacturing specifications and legal standards.
**What You Will Do**
• Ensuring the quality of supplies by conducting tests and assessments on incoming supplies to identify any quality issues; Developing supplier inspection, testing, and evaluation mechanism.
• Generating reports on supplier quality, by monitoring their defect rates and areas that can lead to potential flaws; Guiding suppliers to reduce these defect rates.
• Researching the potential vendors, assessing their manufacturing environment, practices, and procedures; Conducting supplier quality control audits to ensure compliance with organizational and federal policies and standards.
• Supporting suppliers in improving their performance through process enhancements, implementing process controls, and developing quality assurance plans.
**Degree Requirement**
Degree or equivalent experience desired
**What You Will Have**
Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems.
Level Extensive Experience:
• 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.
Process Improvement: Understanding and insight into evaluating current product quality and production methods and ability to maintains focus on the continuous improvement of processes, products and services.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Streamlines the critical workflow for executing key processes.
• Sets priorities for addressing process problems that limit performance.
• Develops methods for improving and establishing controls for critical processes.
• Monitors external sources for applicable new methods and controls.
• Analyzes findings from improvement cycles to ensure success of interventions.
• Coaches others to develop the skills to improve processes.
Quality Orientation: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Collaborates with other groups to develop quality standards that are synchronized across units.
• Defines quality from multiple perspectives - e.g., operational, employee, customer, market.
• Applies current best practices to modify standards and improve quality outcomes.
• Resolves apparent discrepancies between quality and safety objectives.
• Monitors intangible measures of quality such as perceived quality to ensure operational outcomes are relevant to stakeholders.
• Coaches team members in applying methodologies for quality assurance.
Production Part Approval Process (PPAP): Knowledge of Production Part Approval Processes (PPAP) elements, submissions, and objectives.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Develops testing and validation procedures to test the quality of manufactured parts/products so that it meets desired customer standards.
• Identifies and resolves key issues with PPAP implementation and submissions.
• Monitors the execution of PPAP steps within a facility and ensures their compliance with industry standards and internal guidelines.
• Oversees PPAP implementation; establishes a high trust relationship between stakeholders.
• Reviews the complex documentation and elements required during the PPAP submission process.
• Trains others on the execution of PPAP to get the required approvals and teaches them about the different PPAP submission levels.
Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies: Knowledge of organizational standards, procedures and policies in manufacturing activities.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Ensures communication vehicles are effectively informing affected areas and personnel.
• 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.
Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward.
• Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements.
• Develops quality standards and controls for suppliers.
• Builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers.
• Evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments.
• Ensures the fulfillment of report and record-keeping requirements.
Supplier Evaluations and Certification: Knowledge of supplier evaluations and certification.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Evaluates potential suppliers for a wide variety of products.
• Develops a preferred suppliers list for selection and evaluation.
• Designs key aspects of and processes for evaluating a supplier's capabilities.
• Compares and contrasts alternative methods and tools for the evaluation of organizations and products.
• Analyzes and resolves supplier product quality, support, or pricing problems.
• Works with multiple evaluation, selection, and certification initiatives.* Relocation assistance is not available for this position.* Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.* Location: Griffin, GA* This position requires a 5-day-a-week office presence.* 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr