Procurement Quality Manager - Drivetrain

Career Area:

Manufacturing

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Caterpillar’s Power & Energy Procurement organization plays a critical role in supporting all divisions within Power & Energy. Our work is geared towards our pistons of Predictable Supply Excellence, Optimized Total Cost of Ownership, Supplier Relationship Management and Lifecycle Sourcing Strategy. We continue to develop suppliers who competitively deliver operational excellence, enabling our customers to build a better world. With a strong focus on data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency, P&E Procurement leverages advanced tools and processes to connect the physical and digital supply chain, enabling business units to deliver high-performance solutions that meet evolving customers and business needs.

The Procurement Quality Manager – Drivetrain leads supplier quality performance for drivetrain components, with responsibility for PPAP execution, capacity alignment, supplier auditing, SER certification, and continuous improvement of supplier quality systems.

• Lead, develop, and mentor a team, fostering strong performance, adherence to Caterpillar policies, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Serve as a hands‑on supervisor working directly with suppliers, demonstrating strong influence, technical leadership, and the ability to drive measurable improvements in supplier performance.
• Develop and implement quality assurance strategies, processes, guidelines, and control plans to ensure consistent quality and reliability of drivetrain components.
• Lead and execute special-focus projects that target key supplier quality improvements and support divisional priorities.
• Ensure compliance with product and customer requirements, clearly communicating specifications and expectations to internal teams and suppliers.
• Manage supplier quality audits, identifying gaps, ensuring conformance, and driving corrective and preventive actions.
• Use data‑driven problem solving to collaborate with quality, engineering, production, and leadership teams to resolve issues and improve supplier performance.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.

Planning and Organizing: Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.

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.

Knowledge of Quality Management System's (QMS) functions, features, and capabilities; ability to design, implement, test, and maintain Quality Management Systems to consistently meet customer requirements and regulatory compliances.

• Drivetrain product, component, and manufacturing knowledge, including quality expectations and key processes.
• Technical expertise in castings, forgings, machining, and fabrications.
• Strong quality engineering background, including hands‑on experience with:
• 8D Corrective Action
• BIQ (Built‑In Quality)
• APQP / PPAP processes

• This position is located in East Peoria, IL
• Travel expectation 10%…