Logistics Specialist

Career Area:

Supply Chain and Logistics

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
Analyzes and develops transportation plans to control the movement of commodities throughout a manufacturing or distribution network to ensure the smooth running of operations at optimal transportation cost levels.

Responsibilities

•    Analyzing transportation plans and identifying opportunities for improvements to meet client needs.

•    Implementing and maintaining monitoring systems to provide information on shipment status, shipped date, in transit location, estimated arrival date, and actual delivery date.

•    Generating and analyzing reports of transportation costs, carrier performance and lead times.

•    Assisting in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity and providing solutions to reduce lead times.

•    Lead initiatives such as Hazmat shipping trainings, CTPAT compliance, carrier and facility QBRs, tariff mitigation, Transportation Management System data configurations, parcel account management, SharePoint maintenance and communication, carrier claims management, SOX audit response, QMS documentation, and updating standard packaging guides. 

Skill Descriptors
Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level: Extensive Experience

•    Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.

•    Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.

•    Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.

•    Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.

•    Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.

•    Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.

Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
Level: Extensive Experience

•    Helps others learn the tools and techniques for process value analysis.

•    Carries out process evaluation, diagnosis, and optimization.

•    Demonstrates a thorough understanding of a major process flow, its components and issues.

•    Synchronizes the efforts of, and resource requirements for, several teams within a process.

•    Makes the business case for new processes, including their cost-benefit ratios.

•    Possesses knowledge of tools and techniques for designing and implementing new processes.

•    Competent in Hazmat shipping, CTPAT compliance

•    Ready to work in a high paced and environment with relentless focus on meeting customer demands

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: Extensive Experience

•    Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.

•    Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.

•    Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.

•    Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.

•    Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.

•    Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level: Extensive Experience 

•    Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.

•    Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.

•    Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.

•    Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.

•    Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.

•    Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
Level: Extensive Experience

•    Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties.

•    Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship.

•    Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes.

•    Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors.

•    Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities.

•    Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships.

Import/Export - MFG: Knowledge of issues, procedures, tools and practices of importing and exporting; ability to import and export goods to and from international locations.
Level: Working Knowledge

•    Applies import and customs regulations for a specific region or country.

•    Receives frequent import shipments and manages the customs clearance process.

•    Assists in the export process; ensures compliance with U.S. regulations for a specific country.

•    Uses locally relevant tariff schedules.

•    Completes all required import or export documentation for repetitive transactions.

Logistics Management: Knowledge of logistics and management; ability to follow proper processes and run operations for effective and efficient movement of materials and finished products.
Level: Extensive Experience 

•    Manages logistics processes through process improvement, prioritization, and project planning.

•    Implements and maintains monitoring systems to provide information on shipment status, shipped date, in transit location, estimated arrival date, and actual delivery date.

•    Develops and analyzes logistics plans that affect production, distribution, and inventory.

•    Works with historical, legislative and practical issues associated with domestic freight.

•    Participates in contract negotiations and interfaces with selected carriers necessary to maintain expected levels of service.

•    Consults on all major logistics processes, their interactions and operational requirements.

Transportation - MFG: Knowledge of transportation; ability to transport materials and goods to and from suppliers, distribution centers, manufacturing facilities and customers.
Level: Extensive Experience 

•    Conducts joint planning with carriers to forecast short- and long-term transportation needs.

•    Coach others on using various approaches for assessing transportation alternatives and selecting optimum mode.

•    Manages arrangements with all major modes of domestic transportation.

•    Negotiates and monitors rates and service controls with major carriers.

•    Participates in evaluation, selection, monitoring and termination of carriers.

•    Collaborates with shippers to plan for and mitigate the transportation capacity crunch and mitigate compliance risks.

Desired Qualifications

A degree in Engineering, Supply Chain or Logistics

4+ years in Logistics and/or Global Trade

Freight Forwarding or Customs Brokerage Experience

Knowledgeable in Hazmat shipping and CTPAT

Extensive experience with Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Python and AI

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of "essential job functions" as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Summary Pay Range:

$108, $163,252.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar. 

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• 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

This position requires working onsite five days a week.Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at

Posting Dates:

October 27, November 10, 2025

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.     

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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