Caterpillar is Hiring Supplier Development Engineer-1 (Bangalore)

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Role Definition

This role assesses supplier quality and makes sure products are free from defects and comply with manufacturing specifications and legal standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensure supply quality by testing and assessing incoming supplies to identify quality issues, and develop supplier inspection, testing, and evaluation mechanisms.
• Generate supplier quality reports by monitoring defect rates and areas that could lead to flaws, and guide suppliers in reducing those defect rates.
• Research potential vendors and assess their manufacturing environment, practices, and procedures, and conduct supplier quality control audits to confirm compliance with organizational and federal policies and standards.
• Support suppliers in improving performance through process enhancements, process controls, and quality assurance plans.

Key Competencies

Effective Communications: Understand communication concepts and tools, and transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas and information. Give helpful feedback, listen without defensiveness, and write the reports needed for the work.

Problem Solving: Recognize, anticipate, and resolve organizational, operational, or process problems, and lead problem resolution efforts where needed.

Process Improvement: Evaluate current product quality and production methods, set priorities for process problems, and develop controls for critical processes.

Quality Orientation: Apply quality management methods and tools, create standards that align across units, and resolve gaps between quality and safety objectives.

Production Part Approval Process (PPAP): Understand PPAP elements and submissions, confirm that suppliers can consistently meet customer quality requirements, and review PPAP documentation.

Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies: Know organizational manufacturing standards, plan and monitor processes for compliance, and help develop control and monitoring mechanisms.

Supplier Management: Manage supplier relationships and transactions, monitor supplier performance against agreements, and develop quality standards and controls for suppliers.

Supplier Evaluations and Certification: Evaluate potential suppliers, build preferred supplier lists, and analyze and resolve supplier product quality, support, or pricing problems.

Additional Information

This role requires 5 working days from the office.

This job description is a general guide to the duties of this position and is used to set the salary grade. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, and management may change it at any time to meet the organization's needs.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.