• Job Description

  Req#: R0000312308

  Career Area:

  Supply Chain and Logistics

  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.

  Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
  

  When you join Caterpillar, you’re joining a global team who care not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers and future work 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.

  Our Product Support and Logistics Division (PSLD) is one of the most innovative divisions within Caterpillar. In PSLD, as within all of Caterpillar, our priority is our customers and helping them build a better world. We touch nearly every element of the services value stream from procurement to design and manufacturing to distribution. PSLD is responsible for Aftermarket Parts Distribution of Cat Parts, Integrated Logistics, segment Procurement and the design and manufacture of Wear Components (Undercarriage and GET) and Maintenance Components (Seals, Tubes & Hardware, Hose & Couplings, Fluids and Filters).

  As a Packaging Engineer, you will design and develop returnable and expendable packaging for individual piece parts and bulk shipping to ensure the timely and efficient receipt and delivery of material. The role will also design packaging solutions for internal logistics processes to ensure part preservation is maintained at an optimum cost. Proper packaging design includes part containment, protection, and optimization of transportation and other supply chain functions. Process partner collaboration is required for this role to ensure packaging solutions provide quantifiable results to process owners and stakeholders. Opportunities for outbound packaging support in future years are also present.

  
  Additional Information:

  • Location: Lebanon, IN or Lafayette, IN (United States)
  • Required Travel: less than 10% (Domestic)
  • Relocation Assistance Offered: None.
  • US Work Sponsorship Offered: None.

  What You Will Do:

  • Establish packaging and processing specifications at the part number level for new product/sourcing introductions, cost savings, or other supply chain improvement
  • Communicate with existing facilities on packaging issues related to receiving, warehousing, and/or line side delivery
  • Perform cost analysis on current packaging processes and recommend changes where appropriate
  • Lead Green Belt projects
  • Perform activities to ensure parts are protected, shipped, and delivered to the customer in a usable fashion. Including:
    • Develop packaging solutions to protect finished painted components
    • Design for transport efficiency
    • Perform containerization analysis, testing, and quoting
    • Validate new packaging and containers during pilot phase
    • Coordinate with operations for storage and ergonomic consideration
    • Develop kitting packaging
    • Validate returnable quantities through simulations
    • Resolve safety and / or quality issues caused by current packaging
    • Resolve issues reported by customers and process partners
    • Develop, communicate and maintain supplier packaging requirements
    • Audit conformance to packaging specification
    • Joint Process Improvement with packaging vendors and purchasing
    • Create packaging concepts using 3D modeling software (i.e. Pro-E)
    • Customers include logistics, operations, facility engineering, quality, purchasing, and other supply chain functional areas. External contacts include global packaging vendors and product suppliers.

  
  What You Have (Basic Requirements):

  • Packaging: Knowledge of packaging tools, approaches and practices; ability to package products and components safely and attractively. The ability to design an engineered solution that meets the needs for all ends of the Order to Delivery process.
  • 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. Will need to receive customer expectations and develop tactical and strategic projects/plans to meet those goals.
    
  • 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. Ability to communicate proficiently with process partners to gather necessary data, approvals, or support.
    
  • Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges. Ability to interpret engineering and supply chain requirements to deliver adequate packaging solutions.
    
  • Computer-Aided Design & Engineering: Knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate and test product design drafts. Ability to use engineering programs or AI to aid in designs or decision making processes.
    
  • Manufacturing Application Systems: Knowledge of company and industry databases and applications used in a manufacturing environment; ability to operate, maintain and update these systems.
    
  • Manufacturing Safety: Knowledge of manufacturing safety; ability to identify work-related hazards and perform necessary activities to meet regulatory requirements for the safety and protection of workers, environment and site.
    
  • Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing environment.
    

  Education Requirement:

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Packaging, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial, or Aerospace Engineering or Engineering Technology or MBA and 3+ years of relevant experience; OR in lieu of degree, 8+ years of supply chain or operations experience

  What Will Set You Apart (Preferred Qualifications):

  • Ability to perform data query analysis (i.e. SAS, business objects, MS Access, MS Excel expert)
  • Previous experience with CREO, Solidworks, Pack Assist, and other engineering programs.
  • Project Management experience
  • Develop and deploy creative / original solutions to complex problems
  • Knowledge of material handling equipment
  • Capable of working and communicating with a variety of company and supplier personnel
  • Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, organization and communication skills
  • Previous 6 Sigma Greenbelt/Black Belt experience
  • Previous packaging experience in heavy industrial sector collaborating both domestically and internationally
  • Affiliation with Institute for Supply Management (ISM) and American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), or comparable professional purchasing or packaging organization
  • Knowledge of Quality, Lean manufacturing, an understanding of lean principles is preferred
  • Ability to work independently with minimal direction

  
  What You Will Get:

  Through it all, we are one team – creating and delivering world-class components and solutions superior to the competition. Learn more about the Caterpillar Experience .

  About Caterpillar:

  Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

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  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

  Relocation is available for this position.

  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:

  July 7, 2025 - July 21, 2025

  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.

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• About the company

  Since 1925, Caterpillar Inc. has been helping our customers build a better world – making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on every continent. With 2020 sales and revenues of $41.7 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. We do business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation – and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.

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