Bill of Materials Analyst

Career Area:

Manufacturing

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.

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.

When you join the Caterpillar Oil & Gas and Marine Division (COGMD), you're joining a global team that helps to power the global energy industry as well as provide power and propulsion on the water.

This role ensures that all material requirements for assigned products are satisfied within the allocated time frame.

Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Coordinating with production support staff to close out bill of materials for customer requirements. Serving as focal point for identifying and resolving material issues.

• Reviewing and acting on material release. Developing and maintaining bill of materials and associated data.

• Preparing bills of material; ensuring timely delivery of component materials needed to support production requirements.

• Verifying customer requirements; coordinating material acquisitions and shipments to assure availability for the manufacturing process.

What You Have - Skills, Knowledge, & Experiences:

Core Application Systems : Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.

• Manages application-related issues, implications, and approaches with clients.

• Evaluates key interfaces and interdependencies among core applications systems.

• Explains features and benefits of core applications for consideration by business units.

• Implements existing and planned application enhancements in major business units.

• Tracks data flow between own applications and core applications in other business areas.

• Plans enhancement, conversion, and retirement strategies for core applications.

Service Excellence : Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.

• Provides a quality of service that customers describe as excellent.

• Resolves common customer problems.

• Responds to unexpected customer requests with a sense of urgency and positive action.

• Provides direct service to internal or external customers.

• Documents customer complaints in a timely manner.

Accuracy and Attention to Detail : Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

• Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.

• Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.

• Productively balances speed and accuracy.

• Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.

• Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.

• Employs techniques for motivating employees to meet or exceed accuracy goals.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking : Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

• Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.

• Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.

• Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.

• Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.

• Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

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.

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.

• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.

• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.

• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.

• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) : Knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems; ability to design and implement ERP systems for managing an organization's internal and external resources and facilitating the flow of information between various business functions.

• Evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of an organization's own ERP system for further improvement.

• Consults on how to effectively integrate ERP systems with other platforms within the organization.

• Evaluates the ERP system's best practices to learn its principles and applications.

• Resolves all technical and administrative problems that occur throughout the ERP design and implementation process.

• Advises the ERP design team on ERP systems requirements.

• Monitors all ERP users to comply with established operational guidelines and standards.

Manufacturing Application Systems : Knowledge of company and industry databases and applications used in a manufacturing environment; ability to operate, maintain and update these systems.

• Uses and maintains information or data stored in specific application; reports unusual situations.

• Documents the major interfaces and dependencies to and from other systems.

• Follows procedures for the maintenance and upkeep of the databases.

• Uses all basic features of the information system in context of own work.

• Works with a specific type of manufacturing application or information system.

What You Will Get:

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just a salary. Because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day-one benefits, including but not limited to:

• Competitive salary and annual bonus program

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage?

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)?

• Company-matched 401(k) plan

• Stock option opportunity over time

• Health savings account (HSA)?

• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)?

• Short and long-term disability coverage?

• Life Insurance?

• Paid parental leave?

• Healthy Lifestyle Programs?

• Employee Assistance Programs?

• Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)

• Strong community involvement

Relocation assistance is not available. Role is onsite in Lafayette, IN.

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 ~~~/careers .

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of "essential job functions" as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Posting Dates:

June 24, 2024 - July 8, 2024

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

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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There's more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.

Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee's contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we've built.