Career Area:
Supply Chain and Logistics
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
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About Caterpillar Oil & Gas and Marine
Caterpillar’s Oil and Gas division, provides superior products and service solutions to make our customers more efficient and lower total cost of ownership. Globally, we deliver engineered oilfield and drilling equipment repair and certification, mechanical and rotating equipment repairs and upgrades, rapid prototyping of spare parts, robust asset management, operation and maintenance and field engineering services. We offer a wide range of career opportunities across a variety of technical and business roles in engineering and service locations worldwide. Join our team and help build engineering solutions that change the industry.
We are currently seeking a Supply Chain Planning Engineer in Lafayette, Indiana. The Supply Chain Planning Engineer in the Marine Product Group will manage and translate key account forecasts into actionable plans for factory scheduling, dealer alignment, and business planning through cross-functional collaboration.
What You Will Do:
- Maintain an understanding of key accounts’ rolling 18-month forecast.
- Understand customer priorities and translate forecast data into actionable insights for factory supply planning, dealer order alignment, & business planning with demand teams and senior leadership
- Integrate key account forecasts into the commercial sales pipeline and support dealer S&OP meetings to align customer demand with dealer order boards, while facilitating order pipeline adjustments in accordance with factory policies.
- Maintain strong understanding of Caterpillar marine engine factory processes and policies.
- Collaborate with facility schedulers to align key account orders with required timelines.
- Analyze data to identify and prioritize opportunities for performance improvement, cost-effective supply chains, inventory optimization and stronger business partnerships.
Degree Requirement:
- Degree or equivalent experience desired
Top Candidates Will Have:
- Skilled in building rapport and maintaining positive relationships with customers, ensuring their needs are understood and addressed with professionalism and urgency.
- Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams to align goals, streamline processes, and drive successful outcomes across departments.
What You Have – Skills, Knowledge, & Experiences:
Effectiveness Measurement: Knowledge of effective measurement techniques and ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of improvement.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Under guidance, reports measurement results in actionable form to management.
- Interprets and analyzes results vs. established benchmarks.
- Establishes short-range and long-range improvement goals for own function.
- Uses assigned measurements for own function or specialization.
- Under guidance, develops action plans to achieve those goals.
Project Administration: Knowledge of project administration best practices and ability to use organizational strategies, practices and tools for administering projects.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Explains concepts of phase, activity and task.
- Provides examples of project data that is tracked.
- Identifies deliverables, resources and dependencies in project plans.
- Demonstrates a basic understanding of organizational project management practices and tools.
Standard Operating Procedures: Knowledge of established standard operating procedures (SOP); ability to design, implement and evaluate standard operating procedures affecting daily and strategic business operations in order to increase operational efficiency.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Compiles current research relevant to standard operating procedures.
- Explains usage of standard operating procedures in business operations.
- Describes main issues and considerations when using standard operating procedures.
- Identifies key features and functions of standard operating procedures.
Conflict Management: Knowledge of managing conflicts; ability to anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Identifies and maximizes areas of agreement in order to mitigate tensions.
- Uses a specific methodology for conflict resolution.
- Facilitates reconciliation rather than divisiveness among individuals.
- Under guidance, appropriately confronts others to get issues out in the open.
- Uses active listening skills and probing techniques to understand cause of a conflict.
Supply Chain Management Knowledge of strategies and tools for controlling and optimizing the factors that lie between the purchase of raw materials, components and supplies, and delivery of finished products.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Works with a specific part of supply chain management process.
- Describes applications and technologies used to manage supply chain.
- Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities.
- Interprets walk-throughs of the consumption stream and associated provision stream.
- Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.
Additional Information:
- Relocation to Lafayette, Indiana is not available.
- Travel will be expected up to 25% of the time.
- This position is a fully onsite work model.
This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O.
As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers .
About Caterpillar
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 have 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.
Summary Pay Range:
$126,000.00 - $189,000.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-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
This position requires working onsite five days a week.Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Posting Dates:
November 11, 2025 - November 21, 2025
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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