Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
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 Strategic Procurement and Planning (SPPD) Supplier Quality team is seeking a Data Specialist who can transform complex data into actionable insights that drive quality improvement, reduce warranty exposure, and elevate supplier performance across the enterprise. In this role, you will combine business intelligence (BI), data visualization, statistical analysis, and machine learning to uncover trends, identify risks, and enable smarter, faster decision-making.
You’ll partner closely with quality, procurement, and engineering teams to translate real-world manufacturing challenges into scalable analytics solutions—building dashboards, predictive models, and AI-enabled tools that deliver measurable impact. This role also supports emerging AI, automation initiatives making it an exciting opportunity to shape the future of analytics in a manufacturing environment.
What makes this role exciting:
This is a high-visibility, high-impact role directly supporting key initiatives, including work that is influential across the enterprise. You will play an important role in managing and improving supplier warranty recovery efforts, making your contributions highly measurable and visible across the organization. The projects you’ll support are tied to critical, high-profile business priorities, offering the opportunity to see your analytics work translate into tangible financial and operational outcomes. If you are motivated by solving meaningful problems, driving enterprise impact, and working on initiatives that matter at the highest levels, this role provides a unique platform to do so.
What you will do:
Maintain and enhance business intelligence (BI) tools and dashboards to support supplier quality and warranty analytics.
Analyze business and customer requirements to develop scalable, implementable, and maintainable data solutions aligned to enterprise models.
Identify and resolve data quality issues across large, complex datasets from multiple enterprise sources.
Develop and apply data visualizations (dashboards, reports) to communicate insights and influen