Quality Enterprise Capability Owner

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Job Title: Quality Enterprise Capability Owner

Contract:Permanent

Salary: 88251

Location: Peterlee County Durham/ Desford Leicestershire/ Skinningrove North Yorkshire

Hours: Full-Time on site

Travel: Up to 25%

Job Summary:

The Quality Enterprise Capability Owner a Senior Quality Manager serves as a quality subject matter expert leading the development and deployment of quality visibility and predictive capabilities that support Operational Excellence and Modern Manufacturing. This enterprise-level role focuses on advancing quality capabilities while partnering closely with other Modern Manufacturing workstreams where quality is embedded within broader solutions.

With a strong emphasis on Modern Manufacturing pilot facilities this role drives capability development and scalable deployment across the organization. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with workstream leads and facility teams to ensure alignment with the Future of Manufacturing strategy while championing best practices and meaningful KPIs that deliver measurable enterprise-wide impact.

What You Will Do:

• Serve as the Quality subject matter expert for Modern Manufacturing leading the development deployment and sustainment of quality visibility and predictive capabilities that support Operational Excellence.

• Drive the innovation creation and implementation of enterprise quality solutions ensuring scalability and consistency across manufacturing facilities with an initial focus on Modern Manufacturing pilot sites.

• Partner closely with Modern Manufacturing workstream leads ECOs and facility teams to embed quality requirements into broader manufacturing capabilities and initiatives.

• Lead the definition deployment and monitoring of quality best practices standards and KPIs ensuring alignment with the Future of Manufacturing strategy and measurable business impact.

• Analyze quality data and trends to identify risks opportunities and improvement actions enabling proactive decisionmaking and predictive insights across operations. Champion AI integration and innovation in quality. Drive digital thread connectivity and support Enterprise Data Domains including the Global Quality domain and Data Council initiatives.

• Provide guidance and influence to crossfunctional stakeholders to ensure quality considerations are integrated early into manufacturing capability design and deployment. Capabilities include traceability process capability (Cpk Ppk SPC) and inspection standards and technologies. High volume low volume highly automated and manual processes all need to be considered in these capabilities.

• Champion a culture of continuous improvement datadriven quality management and operational discipline across the enterprise.

• Support change management and capability adoption by collaborating with facility leadership to ensure successful implementation engagement and longterm sustainability.

Education requirement:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering (Mechanical Electrical Industrial or related discipline) or equivalent knowledge demonstrated through professional experience.

What skills you will have:

Strategic Thinking

Demonstrated experience leading enterpriselevel quality and manufacturing initiatives aligned to longterm business objectives. Proven ability to interpret complex data market trends and operational insights to shape strategy and prioritize capability development. Experience positioning organizations for longterm competitiveness by aligning quality initiatives with the Future of Manufacturing strategy and broader operational goals.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

Extensive experience applying datadriven decisionmaking to complex ambiguous quality and manufacturing challenges. Proven ability to evaluate assumptions assess risks and analyze alternatives to drive sound highimpact decisions. Skilled at advising leaders and teams by synthesizing data and applying appropriate decisionmaking approaches to deliver sustainable outcomes.

Influencing

Proven ability to influence crossfunctional stakeholders and drive alignment across ECOs workstreams and manufacturing facilities without direct authority. Experience presenting clear compelling business cases that address cost risk and operational impact. Demonstrates strong capability building buyin commitment and shared accountability to ensure adoption of quality capabilities and standards.

Problem Solving

Extensive experience leading the resolution of complex highimpact quality and process problems across manufacturing environments. Skilled in applying structured problemsolving methodologies capturing lessons learned and standardizing approaches to prevent recurrence. Proven success delivering effective scalable solutions that improve quality performance and operational outcomes.

Top Candidates will also have:

• Experience with factory automation and inspection systems
• Background in visual inspection technologies and AIbased system implementation
• Knowledge of process control and advanced manufacturing quality capabilities

Additional Information:

This position requires the candidate to work onsite five days a week in the office.

Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.

This position may require up to 50% travel.

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

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