Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas

Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas

Actual Laredo, Tamaulipas

Full time

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Career Area

Engineering

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. The Laboratory/Support Senior Engineer position will provide advanced metallurgical and materials engineering expertise to support Quality, Manufacturing, Operations, and Supplier Quality organizations. This role is essential for ensuring products meet Caterpillar specifications while minimizing quality risks, production disruptions, and warranty exposure. The position will deliver value by providing technical leadership in the investigation and resolution of complex quality issues involving materials, heat treatment, manufacturing processes, and supplier components.

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

- Provide metallurgical validation and technical engineering support for New Product Introduction (NPI) projects and Technical Services activities, contributing to quality, manufacturing, and new product launch objectives.
- Lead the resolution of complex heat treatment and coating-related issues in collaboration with customers and internal manufacturing organizations, minimizing quality risks and potential warranty exposure.




- Lead the execution of capital projects for laboratory and manufacturing improvements, focused on enhancing technical and operational capabilities.
- Provide metallurgical validation and technical oversight for outsourced heat treatment operations ensuring compliance with technical requirements, quality standards, and specifications.
- Develop and deliver metallurgy training programs focused on specifications, heat treatment, welding, acid etch analysis, and failure prevention for operators, engineers, and technicians, exceeding 120 man-hours of training annually.
- Create and maintain technical procedures, engineering standards, and laboratory documentation based on Caterpillar and international standards, including 1E Specifications, ASTM, AISI-SAE, and ISO requirements.
- Drive laboratory equipment reliability and preventive maintenance initiatives to achieve uninterrupted support for manufacturing operations.
- Manage metallurgical laboratory operations, including budgeting, procurement, equipment maintenance, and resource allocation, ensuring operational efficiency, resource availability, and cost control.

Skill Descriptors

Accuracy and Attention to Detail

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

_Level Working Knowledge:_

- Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions,



and oversights.
- Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
- Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
- Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
- Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.

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.

_Level Working Knowledge:_

- 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.

Technical Excellence

Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

_Level Working Knowledge:_

- Provides effective technical solutions to routine functional challenges via sound technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
- Effectively performs the technical job aspects, continuously building knowledge and keeping up-to-date on technical and procedural job components.
- Applies technical operating and project standards based on achieving excellence in delivered products, technologies and services.
- Applies current procedures and technologies to help resolve technical issues in on

📌 Senior Metallurgical Engineer (Nuevo Laredo)
🏢 Caterpillar
📍 Nuevo Laredo