Supplier Development Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.; Mossville (PA); On-site; USD 113,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Tuition Reimbursement

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Procurement professional to join our global team in Mossville to ensure supplier quality and compliance with manufacturing standards. You will assess suppliers, drive improvements, and contribute to PPAP activities while reducing defects and ensuring a reliable supply chain.

The role emphasizes collaboration with suppliers, audits, and process improvements, with an expected travel of up to 10% and onsite work at multiple U.S. facilities.

Qualifications

• Effective communications skills to transmit and interpret information.
• Problem solving across organizational, operational or process challenges.
• Continual process improvement to enhance products and services.
• Knowledge of quality management methods and tools.
• Understanding PPAP elements, submissions and objectives.
• Familiarity with manufacturing standards and policies.
• Experience in managing supplier relationships and transactions.
• Experience evaluating and certifying vendors and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the quality of supplies by conducting tests and assessments on incoming materials.
• Generating supplier quality reports and guiding improvements to reduce defect rates.
• Researching potential vendors and conducting supplier quality audits for compliance.
• Supporting suppliers to implement process controls and quality assurance plans.

Skills

Effective Communications

Problem Solving

Process Improvement

Quality Orientation

PPAP

Manufacturing Standards

Supplier Management

Supplier Evaluations

Job description

Aug 5, 2026

$112,710 - $169,060/year

Procurement

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you'rejoining 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'tjust 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.

Role Definition

Assesses the supplier quality and ensures that all the products are free from defects and are in compliance with manufacturing specifications and legal standards.

What you will do:

• Ensuring the quality of supplies by conducting tests and assessments on incoming supplies to identify any quality issues; Developing supplier inspection, testing, and evaluation mechanism.
• Generating reports on supplier quality, by monitoring their defect rates and areas that can lead to potential flaws; Guiding suppliers to reduce these defect rates.
• Researching the potential vendors, assessing their manufacturing environment, practices, and procedures; Conducting supplier quality control audits to ensure compliance with organizational and federal policies and standards.
• Supporting suppliers in improving their performance through process enhancements, implementing process controls, and developing quality assurance plans.

Degree Requirement

What you will have:

• Effective Communications: Working 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: Extensive 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.
• Process Improvement: Extensive understanding and insight into evaluating current product quality and production methods and ability to maintains focus on the continuous improvement of processes, products and services.
• Quality Orientation : Extensive knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques; ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
• Production Part Approval Process (PPAP): Extensive knowledge of Production Part Approval Processes (PPAP) elements, submissions, and objectives; ability to determine whether a supplier can manufacture products that meet the quality requirements and standards of their customers consistently.
• Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies: Extensive knowledge of organizational standards, procedures and policies in manufacturing activities; ability to plan, guide, and monitor manufacturing processes for compliance.
• Supplier Management -MFG: Extensive 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.
• Supplier Evaluations and Certification: Extensive knowledge of supplier evaluations and certification; ability to identify the methods, tools and documentation for evaluating, selecting and certifying vendors, suppliers and partners.

Additional Information:

Travel requirements may be 10%

This can be located in Mossville, IL, Pontiac, IL, or Lafayette, IN

Domestic relocation is available.

Sponsorship is NOT available for this role

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.

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.

Summary Pay Range:

$112,710.00 - $169,060.00

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.

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*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• * These benefits also apply to part-time employees

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

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.

Solving our customers' toughest challenges

Caterpillar Inc. is a global leader in manufacturing construction and mining equipment, engines, and industrial services, dedicated to sustainability and customer success across diverse industries.

Machinery Manufacturing Manufacturing

Company size 10,001+ employees

Company type Public company Founded 1925

Total funding $3.5B Post IPO Debt

Momentum

Team growth

Momentum

Team growth

8% in 12 mo

62,933 employees on LinkedIn

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Employee experience

What it’s like inside

3.8

9,998 reviews

78% would recommend

Culture & values

Culture & values 3.9

Work-life balance

Work-life balance 3.8

Career opportunities

Career opportunities 3.8

Compensation & benefits 4.0

Capital

Funding history

Post IPO Debt $3.5B

Aug 2025

Grant - US Department of Energy $5M

Oct 2024

Grant - Advanced Propulsion Centre UK

Grant $147.5K

Footprint

Where they work

Headquarters Irving, Texas

Irving, Texas, US