Manager Production (Assembly)

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
Oversees and coordinates the activities of the 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
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 Working Knowledge: 
•     Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
•     Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
•     Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
•     Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
•     Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Data Gathering & Analysis: Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes; ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion, goal, or judgment.
Level Basic Understanding: 
•     Describes alternative data-gathering techniques and tools.
•     Documents basic data-gathering methodologies.
•     Identifies the purposes of data gathering and analysis.
•     Identifies key objectives in gathering and analyzing data.

Performance Management: Knowledge of successful performance management techniques; ability to apply organization's performance management system, practices, and tools to developing and improving individual, team, and organizational performance.
Level Basic Understanding: 
•     Demonstrates an understanding of performance management concepts.
•     Describes organization's performance management process.
•     Explains organization's core performance factors and ratings.
•     Participates in own performance review or performance checkpoint session.

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•     Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
•     Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
•     Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
•     Identifies the major forces, events, and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
•     Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

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 Basic Understanding: 
•     Explains characteristics and steps in an effective decision-making process.
•     Identifies issues and communicates with others when a decision needs to be made.
•     Names decision makers in own environment and cites examples of past decisions.
•     Describes types of decisions incumbent may and may not make in own job or function.

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.
•     Escalates concerns over competing or conflicting priorities.
•     Monitors progress continuously and adjusts tactics for handling situations on a case by case basis.
•     Creates action plans that ensure the accomplishment of responsibilities.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Basic Understanding: 
•     Describes non-verbal behaviors that influence the interpretation of the message.
•     Cites examples of effective and ineffective communications.
•     Explains the importance of effective business communication.
•     Speaks/writes using correct language, mechanics, and gestures.

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Level Basic Understanding: 
•     Explains the importance of accuracy in own function or unit.
•     Identifies tasks or outputs that require accuracy and detail-level attention.
•     Identifies the procedures for making sure that results are mistake-free.
•     Describes consequences of errors within own unit or function.

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."

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

 

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

July 9, 2026 - July 23, 2026

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

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