Career Area:
Procurement
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
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Caterpillar’s Earth Moving Supply Management team (EMSM) team is hiring a Procurement Quality Engineer in our Minneapolis facility.
Role Summary : As a Procurement Quality Engineer, you will be accountable for monitoring the external supplier network to meet the defined quality targets, enabling optimal and efficient facility operations. You will be collaborating with business partners and suppliers and resolving facility specific supplier quality issues.
What You’ll Do (Job Duties)
Provide conclusions and recommendations for quality issues and/or continuous quality improvement projects
Participate in supplier quality improvement initiatives; work with suppliers to develop and improve quality levels
Ensure the reliability and quality of suppliers, implementing process controls, certification programs, evaluations, inspections, corrective actions, audits and records
Identify quality problem(s) and determine action plans with the facility management and supplier
Manage the corrective action process on supplier related quality issues.
Identify, contain and ultimately eliminate the defect through Root-Cause-Corrective-Action Analysis and containment plans
Use facility-based systems and purchasing reporting systems (eg. NCMs, EtQ, MRDR’s, POU documentation) and communicate supplier corrective action details to ensure that the customer is totally confident in Containment and Final Corrective Action Plans.
Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired
Travel Requirement
20% domestic travel required
What You Have (Core Skills)
Quality Management Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
Accuracy and attention to detail Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Collaborating Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Effective Communications Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Problem solving Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Top Candidates Will Also Have
Knowledge of the concepts, principles and techniques of Root Cause Analysis (RCA); ability to use a structured approach to identify the causes of undesirable consequences in a manufacturing environment and the changes needed to prevent recurrences
Knowledge of purchasing tasks/ activities, procedures
and policies in manufacturing activities
Experience in understanding and interpreting specifications and prints.
Summary Pay Range:
$95,640.00 - $143,520.00
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:
December 15, 2025 - January 8, 2026
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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