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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

Oversees and coordinates the activities of a more complex production line, prepares schedules, resolves issues, and ensures adherence to safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

•           Creating reports and records of production processes, tools issues performance, and inventory; sharing them with managers and providing suggestions to improve safety, productivity and quality.

•           Preparing, maintaining, and updating documentation related to operating procedures and safety and quality standards; ensuring all processes and products meet desired safety and quality standards.

•           Supervising and directing the daily activities of production lines workers, assigning tasks, ensuring coordination between different teams, ensuring their safety and monitoring their performance.

•           Training new hires, managing scheduling and work conflicts, monitoring safety, and promoting internal communication to create a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Degree Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

Quality Management: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.

 Level Working Knowledge:

•           Adheres to organizational quality management processes and practices.

•           Applies key aspects of continuous improvement processes and evaluates impact on quality.

••           Works with quality assurance methods, tools and techniques.

Planning and Organizing: Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.

 Level Working Knowledge:

•           Raises awareness of potential bottlenecks and disruptions to the schedule.

•           Breaks tasks into manageable steps that can be incorporated into a personal work plan.

•           Creates action plans that ensure the accomplishment of responsibilities.

Manufacturing Operations: Knowledge of manufacturing operations; ability to perform day-to-day operations of a manufacturing plant or facility for products.

 Level Extensive Experience:

•           Monitors organizational adherence to policies and procedures.

•           Facilitates communications across departments to ensure a smooth workflow in the plant or facility.

•           Evaluates the risks and safety hazards present in manufacturing operations.

•           Supervises daily operations to ensure production targets and forecasts are achieved.

•           Employs tools and techniques for anticipating demand and assuring capacity.

Manufacturing Safety: Knowledge of manufacturing safety; ability to identify work-related hazards and perform necessary activities to meet regulatory requirements for the safety and protection of workers, environment and site.

 Level Extensive Experience:

•           Consults on the use of new tools and techniques for safety protection.

•           Performs safety inspections to assure compliance with OSHA requirements.

•           Designs and implements emergency response processes and procedures.

•           Promotes workplace safety among supervisors and workers; communicates safety rules and regulations.

•           Assesses and reports unusual or new safety hazards or violations; initiates corrective action.

•           Ensures that all employees and contractors comply with relevant safety policies and regulations.

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

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Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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