**Career Area:** Procurement **Job Description:** **Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.** When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it. **IT IS YOUR TIME!** Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it. If you are looking for personal and professional growth, in a company with an inclusive culture, which seeks equity, respects differences and believes in people's potential, this is the right place. We consider people with disability candidates and those with diversity in gender, culture, ethnicity, religion, age, generation, race, nationality and sexual orientation. **Important:** **- Don’t forget to include a resumé in English in your profile in Workday.** **- Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application, please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any update s to your status.** **Job description summary:** This role primarily deals with part development and end to end quality management for large weldments including truck bodies, making sure the manufacturing standards are in place at the supplier to meet the end customer requirement. New Product Introduction (NPI), Continuous Product Improvement (CPI), and New Source Introduction (NSI) related activities by collaborating with suppliers, design control engineers, value chain engineering, and procurement category teams are expected job deliverables. **What you will do:** + Managing Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Quality management related activities from concept to PPAP to deliver parts at the right quality, total cost, while meeting timelines and end customer requirements. The candidate accomplishes this through collaboration with various functional areas like packaging, transportation, business resources, supply chain, etc. + Be a trusted quality expert who translates Caterpillar drawing requirements and technical specifications to the shopfloor requirements and works with the supplier by training and monitoring to achieve the desired quality output in process and product. + Implementing product supply strategies aligned with the category management supply strategies that will create a competitive advantage for our customers by developing, optimizing and integrating a world-class supply network. + Managing the quality feedback loops to ensure lessons learned on quality defects are applied across the supply base. Being a single point of contact for quality management, improvement and governance by close supplier collaboration, training and execution of actions at supplier and working with supplier personnel and management. + Driving Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE) through cost modeling, design for manufacturability, and leveraging suppliers’ capabilities. + Supplier identification, selection, audit, training and part development by imparting Cat quality standards in the supply base. **What you will have:** + **Problem Solving:** quality tools, problem solving techniques, root cause analysis and corrective action, data-driven decision making and associated tools and techniques; ability to gather and analyze data to make organizational decisions that align with strategic business objectives and goals towards quality improvement and customer complaint elimination. + **Supplier Management - MFG:** Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice. + **Strategic Sourcing:** Knowledge of strategic sourcing methods, technologies, and processes, including supplier identification, selection, training, and onboarding. Strong project governance and execution skills. **Basic requirements:** + Bachelor’s degree. + Pre-advanced English. **Top candidates will also have:** + Welding certifications like AWS CWI or equivalent. **Additional Information:** + Approximately 50% travel required to suppliers and, when necessary, to mining sites. **Some of the offered benefits*:** + Medical plan + Dental plan + Medicines reimbursement + Wellhub + Psychological, Legal, Social and Finance Support Program + Private pension plan + Profit share + Christmas basket + Transportation + Life and personal insurance + Extended maternity and paternity leave + Employee resources group (Young Professional, Women in Networking, LAMBDA (LGBTQIA+), Latin Group and Active in Sport *Caterpillar reserves the right to change or modify benefits at any time, subject prior notice and in compliance with legal requirements. Benefit elegibility may vary by position and location. The Recruitment & Selection area emphasizes that it does not use personal emails and/or emails from other domains (@gmail, @hotmail, etc.) to contact candidates. Available vacancies are only advertised through the company's official channels ( www.caterpillar.com/careers.html; https://www.linkedin.com/company/caterpillar-inc) , and official Caterpillar emails are mandatory followed by the domain @cat.com. Also, the company does not request any type of payment (bank transfer, pix, etc.) for the purposes of the selection process. For more information click on the link: https://www.caterpillar.com/pt/careers/apply-now/help.html \#LI **Posting Dates:** maio 20, 2025 - maio 29, 2025 Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .