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SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

Posted 25 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 2 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Who is Caterpillar? What do we do?

Caterpillar is a world leader in construction and mining equipment—creating innovative, cutting-edge products

and services that help our customers build the world around us. With that level of impact comes the platform

to care for the world, we work in. That’s why we lead sustainable green initiatives to preserve the environment,

help reduce poverty with the Caterpillar Foundation and stay involved in the communities we help build.

What will Caterpillar do for you?

From day one, you’re set up to thrive at Caterpillar: helpful training, relatable mentors, global experience, competitive salary package, work-life balance and the growth opportunities you expect with a Fortune 100 company.

You power our success and we are committed to empowering yours. After all, when your work can impact the entire world, it’s important to do work that matters.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Supplier Development Engineer to join our team in Peterborough, to provide on-site assistance & leadership to Caterpillar’s supply base in the execution of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), the implementation of process control and the deployment of a continuous quality improvement processes. You will ensure that suppliers can meet corporate and business unit requirements for certification and quality of purchased material.

Job Responsibilities and Duties:

Working with suppliers to ensure that robust process controls are in place to prevent nonconformities, to continuously monitor supplier’s key manufacturing processes and quality management system for improvement opportunities and to assist suppliers with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities to ensure production readiness for New Product Introduction (NPI).

The SDE is responsible for the supplier’s processes from design concept to the end of product life (cradle to grave), including the following activities:

  • Ensuring the adequacy of the supplier’s quality management system and the capability of people, training, tooling, fixturing and equipment.
  • Providing technical support during start-up activities.
  • Ensuring that APQP activities related to process control are being performed by the supplier.
  • Monitoring of supplier adherence to Process Change Notification (PCN) (for changes driven by Supplier and Caterpillar) on a timely and cost-effective basis.
  • Helping suppliers extract value from the APQP process.
  • Managing supplier’s project plans and activities to ensure product meets Caterpillar expectations, ensuring all relevant requirements and related changes are thoroughly documented.
  • Reviewing APQP documentation (e.g., Process FMEA {failure mode & effects analysis), Process Control Plans, Gage R&R (repeatability & reproducibility).
  • Participating in process FMEA for suppliers manufacturing processes.
  • Auditing overall supplier capability and process control implementation and effectiveness to validate process capability.
  • Ensuring PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) completion and approval prior to delivery of new parts. Additionally, the SDE ensures resolution and implementation of robust solutions for quality problems associated with purchased materials and engineering issues. SDE activity is as follows:
  • Reviewing, approving and validating 8D permanent corrective action plans, along with determining whether cost of poor-quality charges should be levied.
  • Performing quality management system audits and Supplier Evaluation Surveys (SES), including assessments of potential new suppliers.
  • Where supplier quality performance is unacceptable, coordinating the supplier response and improvement plans.
  • Develop target supplier’s capabilities to attain SQEP (Supplier Quality Excellence Process) certification.
  • Deploys Lean Processes to ensure Built in Quality in the Supplier Network
  • Participating in the development of Supplier quality metrics and in Supplier Performance Management Reviews (SPM).

Qualifications

Skills and Experience:

Candidates will have gained the following skills and experience through previous roles:

  • An Engineering/Manufacturing/Technical undergraduate degree from a college or university, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to read engineering drawings
  • Experience executing quality processes with engineering suppliers.
  • Sound knowledge and demonstrated experience of APQP, including the PPAP process, FMEA’s, control plans, process flow, GR&R, and capability studies.
  • Experience of applying 8D process or other structured problem-solving techniques in a manufacturing environment.
  • Industry experience in Manufacturing, Industrial, Automotive, or Aerospace.
  • Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Candidates may have gained the following skills and experience through previous roles:

  • Experience working with suppliers.
  • Project management experience.

  • Material metallurgical experience

  • Experience of working with CNC machining (milling and turning)
  • Measurement techniques
  • Knowledge of tool design

For more than 90 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on every continent. Customers turn to Caterpillar to help them develop infrastructure, energy and natural resource assets.
With 2017 sales and revenues of $45.462 billion, Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines…


For more than 90 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on every continent. Customers turn to Caterpillar to help them develop infrastructure, energy and natural resource assets.

With 2017 sales and revenues of $45.462 billion, Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The company principally operates through its three primary segments - Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation - and also provides financing and related services through its Financial Products segment.

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