PRS Facility Location
EMD HQ LaGrange, IL - 400
Job Purpose
The Director, Remanufacturing Supply Chain is the accountable business and supply chain leader responsible for building, scaling, and optimizing Progress Rail's remanufacturing value chain. The role integrates Supply Chain, Engineering, Procurement, Aftermarket, Operations, and Finance to deliver cost-competitive, high-quality remanufactured products with improved lead times, availability, margins, and customer value.
This position is intended to use the Caterpillar Product Lifecycle leadership structure as the closest base, while explicitly expanding accountability for remanufacturing supply chain performance, core availability, Clear-to-Build, lead time, cost, supplier performance, inventory, margin improvement, and commercial integration.
Req ID
12107BR
Company Description
Progress Rail stands at the intersection of legacy and innovation-driving the future of rail with a pioneering spirit. Since its founding in 1983, the company has grown to become one of the world's largest and most trusted providers of railroad products, services, and technologies. Today, Progress Rail delivers a comprehensive portfolio of cost-effective solutions to railway customers around the globe. From the rails themselves to the EMD® locomotives that ride them, the company's products are in operation across more than 100 countries-powering progress and connecting communities. In 2006, Progress Rail joined Caterpillar Inc., further strengthening its ability to lead the rail industry with cutting-edge technology, unmatched expertise, and a commitment to excellence. At Progress Rail, the team is not just building the future of rail-they are making history every day.
Education / Training
Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations Management, Business, Finance, or related discipline.
Job Title
Manager, Remanufacturing Supply Chain
City
La Grange
Key Job Elements
Business Leadership & Strategy
• Lead the remanufacturing supply chain strategy across product families, sites, and customer requirements.
• Create the operating model, governance cadence, KPI structure, and business roadmap required to scale remanufacturing as a growth platform.
• Act as the single accountable leader connecting Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, and Aftermarket priorities.
• Drive execution against revenue growth, cost competitiveness, margin improvement, customer availability, and inventory productivity goals.
Supply Chain Planning & Execution
• Own end-to-end planning performance from core availability and material readiness through customer delivery.
• Improve Clear-to-Build performance, fulfillment reliability, lead-time predictability, and demand responsiveness.
• Establish planning discipline for critical parts, A-items, core inventory, finished goods, and capacity constraints.
• Lead risk management and recovery actions for supply continuity, supplier constraints, obsolescence, and customer-impacting shortages.
Procurement, Supplier & Cost Management
• Develop strategic sourcing plans that improve total cost of ownership, supplier reliability, quality, and scalability.
• Lead cost-reduction, deflation, value engineering, should-cost, and supplier development initiatives.
• Partner with Finance and Aftermarket to ensure cost, pricing, and margin objectives are visible and actively managed.
• Create supplier performance scorecards that include on-time delivery, quality, responsiveness, and cost competitiveness.
Engineering & Product Lifecycle Integration
• Partner with Engineering to accelerate print validation, engineering change execution, configuration management, and manufacturability improvements.
• Ensure product lifecycle decisions support remanufacturing cost, recoverability, standardization, lead time, and customer service outcomes.
• Create cross-functional visibility to engineering constraints that affect CTB, revenue, cost, and customer commitments.
Core Management & Inventory Strategy
• Build and sustain a core acquisition, recovery, replenishment, and utilization strategy aligned to demand and commercial priorities.
• Improve visibility to core availability, yield, inventory turns, and recovered component flow.
• Balance service levels, working capital, core inventory, finished goods inventory, and turnaround time.
Aftermarket & Commercial Alignment
• Partner with Aftermarket Sales and Operations to improve customer responsiveness, revenue velocity, and product availability.
• Support commercial