Manufacturing Engineer – Assembly

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Manufacturing Engineer Assembly

Location: Decatur IL
Travel: Up to 5%
Relocation Assistance: Available
Visa Sponsorship: Not Available

Job Summary

As a Manufacturing Engineer at Caterpillars Decatur Illinois facility you will provide handson manufacturing engineering support to improve safety quality velocity and cost across highvolume heavyequipment manufacturing operations. This role focuses on process ownership shopfloor problem solving and continuous improvement working closely with operations quality supply chain and other engineering teams. You will translate production requirements into capable manufacturing processes while ensuring compliance with safety and environmental standards. This is an individual contributor role with significant impact on daily production performance and longterm operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide manufacturing engineering expertise to support safe highquality and costeffective production.
• Design implement and improve manufacturing processes layouts tooling and equipment.
• Identify and resolve manufacturing issues using structured problemsolving methods and datadriven analysis.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety quality throughput ergonomics and waste reduction.
• Develop and maintain standard work work instructions routings and process documentation.
• Monitor equipment and process capability; recommend improvements to enhance reliability and performance.
• Partner with operations and support teams to implement process changes and corrective actions.
• Support manufacturing readiness for new products design changes and capacity increases.
• Participate in capital and expense projects including justification implementation and validation.
• Ensure compliance with safety quality and environmental requirements in all manufacturing activities.

Required Skills

• Manufacturing Engineering (Working Knowledge): Ability to apply engineering principles to improve manufacturing processes and production systems.
• Manufacturing Processes: Understanding of assembly processes.
• Lean Manufacturing: Ability to apply lean principles to improve flow eliminate waste and improve productivity.
• Problem Solving: Structured approach to identifying root causes and implementing sustainable corrective actions.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Ability to analyze data assess risk and make sound engineering decisions.
• Project Management (Working Knowledge): Ability to plan execute and track engineering work and improvement activities.
• Communication Skills: Ability to collaborate effectively with operators leaders and crossfunctional teams.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in heavy manufacturing large equipment or highvolume industrial environments.
• Exposure to automation tooling design or equipment integration.
• Experience developing standard work control plans or process documentation.
• Familiarity with continuous improvement tools such as value stream mapping root cause analysis and mistakeproofing.
• Strong data skills using common engineering and productivity tools.

Summary Pay Range:

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors job level market locationjob-related knowledge skills individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility terms and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical dental and vision benefits*

• Paid time off plan (Vacation Holidays Volunteer etc.)*

• 401(k) savings plans*

• Health Savings Account (HSA)*

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

• Health Lifestyle Programs*

• Employee Assistance Program*

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

• Career Development*

• Incentive bonus*

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

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Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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