Onsite Quality Engineer: Preventive Quality & Launch Lead

Caterpillar; Lafayette (IN); On-site; USD 98,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Career development

Job summary

Caterpillar's Lafayette Engine Center in Indiana is seeking a Quality Engineer to advance prevention-based quality, lead investigations, and support launches of new products and capital programs. You will analyze data, perform audits, maintain quality system documentation, and collaborate across teams to deliver robust processes and strong customer outcomes.

This onsite role emphasizes APQP and NPI frameworks, proactive risk management, and cross-functional execution in a manufacturing

Responsibilities

• Work in a team environment to develop and implement best practices that emphasize defect prevention, reduction in variation and waste and provide for continuous improvements in meeting all customer requirements.
• Conducting measurement systems analysis; gathering, analyzing, and communicating non-conformance data.
• Analyzing non-conformance data and maintaining quality system documentation.
• Participating in and offering technical support to internal and external audits; following up response of corrective action from audit.

Job description

Caterpillar's Lafayette Engine Center in Indiana is seeking a Quality Engineer to advance prevention-based quality, lead investigations, and support launches of new products and capital programs. You will analyze data, perform audits, maintain quality system documentation, and collaborate across teams to deliver robust processes and strong customer outcomes.

This onsite role emphasizes APQP and NPI frameworks, proactive risk management, and cross-functional execution in a manufacturing