Manager Manufacturing Engineer

Career Area: Manufacturing 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.

The Manufacturing Engineering Manager leads the engineering organization responsible for New Product Introduction (NPI), New Source Introduction and source transfers, product changes, and capital projects. This role ensures manufacturing readiness and production ramp-up by aligning people, processes, tooling, equipment, capacity, quality, cost, safety, and schedules with business objectives. The position develops engineering talent, directs cross-functional execution, and drives sustainable improvements across machining, assembly, painting, and related manufacturing operations. Responsibilities : Lead and develop the Manufacturing Engineering team, setting priorities and driving safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement. Lead DFM/DFA and design reviews, ensuring early Manufacturing and Product Engineering alignment. Develop and validate processes, layouts, standard work, PFMEA, control plans, capacity models, tooling, equipment, and automation. Improve productivity, flow, cost, quality, and process capability through Lean and data-driven problem solving. Ensure APQP, PPAP, process validation, launch readiness, operator training, and regulatory and customer compliance. Coordinate BOMs, routings, PFEP, material readiness, and manufacturing systems with Supply Chain and Operations. Manage project governance, engineering changes, risks, schedules, reporting, and delivery commitments. Own CAPEX business cases, prioritization, forecasting, controls, and on-time, on-budget execution. Educational Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline. Expert in manufacturing engineering, including people leadership and responsibility for NPI, source transfers, process development, or capital projects. Advanced English Working knowledge of machining, assembly, painting, tooling, equipment, capacity planning, APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Lean Manufacturing, and project management.

Technical Skills: Provides expert guidance on manufacturing processes, NPI, source transfers, product changes, process validation, tooling, equipment, quality core tools, cost reduction, and CAPEX decisions. Operational Functions: Integrates Manufacturing, Product Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Operations, and Program Management to remove barriers, deploy best practices, and achieve launch and production-readiness objectives. Collaborating: Builds shared goals, transparent communication, and cross-functional accountability across functions, regions, and organizational levels to accelerate decisions and execution. Continuous Transformation: Leads adoption of new technologies, systems, workflows, automation, and lessons learned to improve organizational capability, scalability, and operational performance. Organizational Leadership: Develops high-performing teams through coaching, recognition, clear expectations, sound judgment, integrity, resilience, and situational leadership. Influencing Through Expertise: Uses technical credibility, stakeholder insight, risk assessment, and data-driven recommendations to influence manufacturing, investment, and launch decisions. Project Management: Plans and controls scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, milestones, and governance for complex NPI, transfer, change, and capital projects. Capacity Planning & Management - MFG: Converts demand and launch plans into