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ProcurementJob Description:
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Job Duties:
Major Role : - Accountable for operating and monitoring the Global Supply Network, as designed, to meet the defined quality targets enabling optimal and efficient facility operations, collaborating with business partners and suppliers as the Relationship Manager for all GSND, and resolving facility specific supplier quality issues. From the initial concern, the Supply Network Quality Engineer will identify, contain and ultimately eliminate the defect. Skills that will be required include Root-Cause-Corrective-Action Analysis (RCCA), 8D, rework and containment plans, and strong communication and collaboration with suppliers.
Customer : - Using ‘ both facility based and global Supply Network’ reporting systems (QSI, ISIR’s, QCIR’s, MRDR’s, POU documentation) this position will communicate supplier corrective action details to ensure that the customer is totally confident in Containment and Final Corrective Action Plans.
Leadership : - This position has no direct reports. The incumbent must exhibit strong leadership qualities to ensure that suppliers agree to and deliver Containment Action and facilitate Program Timing and Final Corrective Action, in accordance with the 8D process. Maintain the highest ethical and professional standards within this diverse global organization.
Supplier Management : - Responsible for maintaining accountability with the suppliers to establish containment plans related to quality discrepancies. Will ensure the supplier is developing corrective action plans to enable operations to continue with minimum disruption.
Relationships : - maintains close working relationships with:
Suppliers Quality Groups Logistics and Material Planning Groups Procurement Groups Supplier Development Engineers
Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired
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.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Explains the purpose and limitations of quality management.
- Accesses organizational resources that enable quality management.
- Defines quality management concepts.
- Cites examples of organizational quality management initiatives.
Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Explains the importance of accuracy in own function or unit.
- Identifies tasks or outputs that require accuracy and detail-level attention.
- Identifies the procedures for making sure that results are mistake-free.
- Describes consequences of errors within own unit or function.
Collaborating : Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Demonstrates experience participating in productive collaborative processes.
- Under guidance, initiates collaborative meetings.
- Assists in communicating shared goals with diverse groups and parties.
- Helps promote collaboration across generations, functions, regions, and levels.
- Helps solve business problems and meet business goals through collaborative processes.
Effective Communications : Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
Managing Multiple Priorities : Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Recognizes changing demands and priorities; validates changes with management.
- Obtains information about how current assignments contribute to organizational goals.
- Completes current work according to assigned priorities.
- Responds to day-to-day operational priorities while still making progress on project work.
- Performs at least 2-3 concurrent activities without reducing productivity.
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 Working Knowledge:
- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
Procurement Function: Knowledge of responsibilities, accountabilities, and organization of procurement function; ability to perform tasks and activities of the procurement functions or department.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Identifies major tasks and responsibilities of a procurement function or unit.
- Explains the basic role and contributions of the procurement or purchasing function.
- Explains the procedures and policies in the procurement process.
- Locates the basic tools and technologies used by procurement professionals.
Purchasing Tasks and Activities : Knowledge of policies, regulations and processes of purchasing; ability to use practices and procedures for procurement of materials, components, equipment and services.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Identifies the basic tools used for maintaining procurement information.
- Identifies major types of products or services purchased by the organization.
- Explains the basic concepts and responsibilities of purchasing tasks and activities.
- Describes established procurement processes and standards.
Top Candidates will have:
Manufacturing background plus familiarity with manufacturing processes like Casting, Forging and Forming used to produce components and assemblies for Caterpillar Products.
- Knowledge of shop operations and maintenance procedures is required.
- Certifications: ASQE or comparable International Certification is desired
Some of the responsibilities but not limited to..
Post PPAP Governance
- Part & process audit for control plan compliance
- 4M changes review
- Review of internal rejection, Quality Gate MFN review, Pilot build RCCA, effectiveness review, production lot feedback
- Development to production transition sign off review
- PPAP effectiveness monitoring
Ongoing Quality Governance
- Periodical process audits & PCN audits to ensure process compliance
- Stop capability assessment (BIQ)
- BIQ gate performance and update the check lists as required
- Provide inputs to SDEs for future developments (Quality history)
- Visit tier2 suppliers as required (Based on risk & complexity)
- Collaborate with facility SQEs on ongoing quality issues and RCCAs, PDI/PDD & ECNs
- Fabrication experience is preferable
- Travel Min 50%
- Min 3+ yrs relevant Experience – GD&T, RCCA, BIQ, CMM & other measurement techniques, Auditing Skills
- High Communication Skill
Additional Information
- Work Location – Thiruvallur
- Travel – To travel to all supplier locations in India.
- % of Travel – 50 – 60 % of the time.
Job Related Statistics:
- Active Parts Numbers: 2000
- DUNS Suppliers Managed: 75
- Number of shipments/receipts coming to facility: 15k
- Business Partner Impact: Facility Wide
- Category Difficulty: Local
- Process Difficulty: Moderately Complex
Posting Dates:
March 20, 2024 - March 29, 2024Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).
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