Supplier Quality Engineer - Griffin, United States - Caterpillar
Description
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.
About EPD
Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We're committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations
Role Definition
Performs advanced inspection and audits to track, analyze, and report on materials, processes, and products to ensure conformance to company's quality standards.
Responsibilities
• Conducting measurement systems analysis; gathering, analyzing, and communicating non-conformance data.
• Analyzing non-conformance data and maintaining quality system documentation.
• Participating in and offering technical support to internal and external audits; following up response of corrective action from audit.
• Work in a team environment to develop and implement best practices that emphasize defect prevention, reduction in variation and waste and provide for continuous improvements in meeting all customer requirements.
Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired
Skill Descriptors
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.
• Communicates key benefits of a quality management process.
• Conducts and directs quality reviews.
• Develops expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
• Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.
• Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.
Collaborating : Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
• Demonstrates experience participating in productive collaborative processes.
• Assists in communicating shared goals with diverse groups and parties.
• Helps solve business problems and meet business goals through collaborative processes.
Flexibility and Adaptability: Knowledge of successful approaches and techniques for dealing with change; ability to adapt to a changing environment and be comfortable with change.
• Adjusts to new or changing assignments, processes, and people.
• Demonstrates willingness to listen to other opinions.
• Identifies and considers alternative approaches to situations or problems.
• Accepts new or radical ideas with an open mind; avoids snap reactions.
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.
• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies: Knowledge of organizational standards, procedures and policies in manufacturing activities; ability to plan, guide, and monitor manufacturing processes for compliance.
• Contributes to the development and implementation of specific manufacturing procedures.
• Explains the rationale for procedures and standards in own area of responsibility.
• Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Knowledge of the concepts, principles and techniques of root cause analysis (RCA); ability to use a structured approach to identify the causes of undesirable consequences in a manufacturing environment and the changes needed to prevent recurrences.
• Investigates a broad range of problems, determines causes, and finds resolutions.
• Recommends candidates for root cause analysis in spite of chaotic organizational conditions.
• Develops corrective action based on RCA results.
• Uses RCA techniques.
• Works with a variety of RCA approaches such as safety-based, production-based, process-based, failure-based, and systems-based.
New production introduction or product change control: Knowledge of the concept, ability to validate process controls, perform continuous improvement activity.