Senior Supply Chain Planning Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.

Senior Supply Chain Planning Engineer developing standardized S&OP processes and decision-making. Collaborating on demand-driven planning and capacity constraints within Caterpillar.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timePeoria • Illinois, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $128,470 - $192,710 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for the design, standardization, and deployment of a common, demand driven S&OP process across machines, engines, and components.
Lead deployment of a standard enterprise S&OP operating model, including planning horizons, cadence, inputs/outputs, and decision rights.
Standardize S&OP processes across machines, engines, and components, ensuring structural alignment of demand, supply, and capacity plans.
Integrate demand driven planning principles (signal based demand, buffers, decoupling points, flow based metrics) into S&OP execution.
Own long-term demand planning (12–36+ months), translating demand into capacity, labor, tooling, and capital requirements.
Enable constraint based S&OP by making supply, material, and capacity constraints explicit and decision ready.
Develop and support scenario analyses to evaluate tradeoffs across service, inventory, margin, and capacity recovery.
Ensure capacity plans are synchronized across machines, engines, and components, with clear visibility to bottlenecks and dependencies.
Interpret order behavior, backlog trends, and demand signals to shape planning recommendations.
Support executive S&OP forums with data driven insights, modeled options, and decision implications.
Define and reinforce S&OP governance, standard work, and adoption metrics.
Collaborate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, IT, and Commercial teams to ensure alignment and execution readiness.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, or related field preferred but not required.
Strong background in manufacturing planning disciplines such as S&OP, Integrated Business Planning (IBP), and/or capacity planning.
Proven experience deploying and sustaining standardized planning processes across multiple product portfolios or value streams.
Solid understanding of demand driven planning principles and constraint based decision-making.
Demonstrated success working cross functionally in complex manufacturing environments.
Experience improving organizational planning maturity and leading S&OP evolution.
Exposure to enterprise planning platforms such as SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9, or Anaplan.
Professional certification such as APICS CPIM, CSCP, or comparable credential.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

S&OPIntegrated Business Planningcapacity planningdemand driven planningconstraint based decision-makingscenario analysesplanning maturitystandardized planning processes

Soft Skills

collaborationcross-functional teamworkdata driven insightsexecutive communication

Certifications

APICS CPIMAPICS CSCP