Engineer – Engineering Change Management.

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**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. **Role Definition:** The Engineering Change Coordinator (ECC) manages, coordinates, and implements engineering changes to ensure smooth production, quality, procurement Team and operation continuity Supervises, schedules, coordinates, and controls complex production schedules; reviews and manages the production process efficiency and quality. The incumbent will work closely with NPI. Engineering, quality, operations, suppliers, procurement team and supply chain teams to ensure alignment of project scope, timing, and production readiness. The ECC maintains all master data, documentation, standard work, and communication plans. The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for detail, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams **Key Responsibilities:** **Engineering Change Management:** - Lead and manage the engineering change process from initiation to implementation including engineering change records, product lifecycle data, and bill of materials creations and Change - Review and analyse engineering change requests (ECRs) completeness and accuracy. - Ensure timely and accurate communication of engineering changes to all relevant stakeholders. Ensure all subordinate cross-functional activities are supported and properly implemented. - Maintain detailed records of all engineering changes and ensure intended changes are fully realized with maximum gains. **Data Enrichment and Master Data Management:** - Enrich and maintain product data to ensure it is accurate, complete, and up to date. - Collaborate with engineering, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain and quality teams to gather and validate data. - Implement data enrichment processes and tools to improve data quality and accessibility. - Support Plan for Every Part (PFEP) and Material Classification programs. - Perform regular audits of engineering data to identify and correct discrepancies. - Develop and implement data maintenance procedures and best practices. - Lead Phase-In / Phase-Out process to ensure supply chain continuity. Ensure planning parameters properly align with intended supply chain ramp-up and ramp-down - Collaborate with production management teams and inventory management teams to ensure transitions plans are fully executed to minimize disruptions. - Coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure effective material and information flow throughout the entire value stream - Facilitates phase-in/phase-out projects associated with design changes, value-engineering, supplier sourcing changes and product lifecycle management. - Support inventory planning and material flow planning goals. - Identify opportunities for process improvements in engineering change management, data enrichment, and data maintenance. - Participate in cross-functional continuous improvement initiatives and projects to enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness. - Create and update standard work as required. - Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve product-related issues and incorporate customer and business requirements. - Owning and driving final production schedules; reviewing workflow of production workers, inventory levels, capacity constraints, machine breakdowns, product quality, etc. to ensure operational excellence. **Skill Descriptors:** Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision. Level Working Knowledge: - Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights. - Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs. - Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy. - Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned. - Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free. Cross-Team Integration: Understanding of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team. Level Working Knowledge: - Maintains a strong internal network that promotes informal collaboration. - Shares information that may be relevant to other teams across divisions. - Assesses the potential synergies from combining common practices across teams. 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. Level Basic Understanding: - Explains the value of a disciplined approach to problem solving. - Describes problem reporting and escalation practices. - Utilizes accepted procedures for problem analysis and resolution. - Identifies key aspects of problem-solving techniques used in own area. Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes. Level Basic Understanding: - Interprets process flow diagrams. - Explains differences between a process and a project. - Identifies process management initiatives in own area. - Describes key business processes in own area. Data Gathering & Analysis: Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and