Manager Project 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.

Role Definition:

Provides technical leadership for manufacturing engineering projects focused on tool design, tool room operations, tooling development, and process improvement. Leads the design, validation, implementation, and continuous optimization of fixtures, gauges, jigs, dies, special tooling, and production support equipment to improve safety, quality, velocity, manufacturability, uptime, and cost performance across manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead major manufacturing engineering projects related to tool design, tool room capability, tool strategy, and production tooling improvements, partnering with internal teams and external suppliers to enhance productivity, quality, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Evaluate tooling systems, fixtures, gauges, dies, and support equipment to ensure proper integration with plant processes, production flow, maintenance requirements, and manufacturing standards.
• Direct suppliers and cross-functional teams in the analysis of current or proposed tooling and product/process designs, determining feasibility, manufacturability, cost impact, and opportunities to improve tooling performance or modify designs.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to manufacturing engineers, tool room personnel, maintenance teams, and operators to develop robust tooling solutions, standardize best practices, and sustain high-quality products and processes.
• Provide technical guidance for automation including deep technical expertise in hydraulic, pneumatic, electronic and electrical design as well as understanding of safety protection systems for machining, welding and assembly tooling

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Mechatronics Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Advanced English.

Skills:
Capacity Planning & Management - MFG:

• Analyzes tooling needs, tool room workload, production demand, and launch schedules to define capacity for new and existing projects.
• Reports actual and projected tool room capacity, tooling availability, machining resources, and project constraints.
• Uses planning tools to interpret forecasts, tool demand, maintenance priorities, and internal or external tool maker support.

Computer-Aided Design & Engineering:

• Leads and reviews CAD-based tooling concepts and detailed designs for fixtures, gauges, jigs, dies, and support equipment.
• Presents tooling, product interface, and manufacturing system designs to align engineering, operations, quality, maintenance, and suppliers.
• Ensures tooling designs address location, clamping, ergonomics, access, repeatability, safety, and equipment compatibility.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking:

• Balances assumptions, constraints, risks, tooling limits, and stakeholder input in project and design decisions.
• Uses past tooling designs, builds, launch issues, and production feedback to prevent repeat failures.
• Assesses design options, supplier proposals, make-versus-buy decisions, and tooling concepts for impact on quality, cost, timing, safety, and manufacturability.

Engineering - MFG:

• Leads problem solving, specifications, and documentation for tooling, fixtures, gauges, dies, equipment, and tool room processes.
• Apply manufacturing engineering principles to design and sustain tooling for machining, fabrication, assembly, inspection, and production.
• Coordinates tool installation, tryout, validation, maintenance readiness, and handoff to production and tool room teams.
• Escalates critical tooling, manufacturability, capacity, or production issues with clear recommendations.

Project Management:

• Estimates tooling project cost, design effort, tool room hours, supplier lead times, and implementation timing.
• Plans, staff, organizes, and monitors tool design, build, refurbishment, and manufacturing improvement projects.
• Identifies risks in design readiness, suppliers, capacity, materials, machining, validation, and launch; creates contingencies.

Robotics/Computer Controlled Machinery:

• Integrates tool design requirements with robotic cells, CNC equipment, and computer-controlled manufacturing processes.
• Supports flexible automation requiring precise tooling, fixturing, part location, sensing, and repeatability.
• Research equipment, robot, CNC, fixture, and supplier options for tooling strategies and business cases.

Technical Troubleshooting:

• Identifies, analyzes, and resolves hardware, software, or application issues.
• Uses vendor diagnostic guides, tools, and utilities.
• Supports product features, applications, and compatibility standards.

Additional Information:

• Location: Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon.
• This position is five-day a week in-office model.
• Sponsorship for foreign candidates is not available.
• Domestic Relocation assistance is available for this position.
• Do not forget to include a resumé in English in your profile in Workday​.

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 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.

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

 

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

julio 21, 2026 - julio 28, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community.