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APQP/PPAP Engineer-March 2024
Acuna
Mar 28, 2026
About APQP/PPAP Engineer

  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.

  About the Role

  Performs advanced inspection and audits to track, analyze, and report on materials, processes, and products to ensure conformance to company's quality standards.

  What You Will Do

  Coordinate activities related to APQP (Process Design & Development, Product and Process Validation)

  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.

  Interacting with manufacturing team members to determine root cause of quality issues and ensure that corrective and preventive action is implemented.

  What You Have – Skills and Experiences

  In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute your unique skills and experiences. Below are some of the most critical 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.

  Flexibility and Adaptability: Knowledge of successful approaches and techniques for dealing with change; ability to adapt to a changing environment and be comfortable with change.

  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.

  Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies: Knowledge of organizational standards, procedures and policies in manufacturing activities; ability to plan, guide, and monitor manufacturing processes for compliance.

  Root Cause Analysis (RCA): 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.

  Additional Skills: Use of design software, statistics, tolerance analysis.

  What is Required?

  Bachelor's degree in Engineering completed

  Fluent conversational English

  Work Experience: 5 years of work in the manufacturing industry, in positions related to manufacturing engineering, processes, design, tooling manufacturing or Metrology. Extensive knowledge of APQP.

  Top Candidates will also have:

  Master's degree

  Desirable certifications:

  ASQ QUALITY ENGINEER,

  GD&T

  CWI

  Six Sigma

  CAD

  LEAN

  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.

  Final Details:

  Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.

  The Caterpillar Code of Conduct states that we will select and place employees based on their qualifications for the job to be performed, without regard to race, religion, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or disability. In this company we do not request pregnancy tests, nor HIV tests as requirements for employment entry, permanence or promotion.

  Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

  Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .

  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.

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