Career Area:
Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Job Description:
At Caterpillar, you can affect work being done on projects around the globe. We build more than machines. Our ideas and solutions can transform our customers' businesses and lives, our communities and our world. If you're ready for leadership opportunities, meaningful responsibilities and the autonomy to pursue your passion, come join the Caterpillar team!
Caterpillar's Resource Industries Operations and Products division is currently seeking Production and Logistics Section Managers for its Decatur, IL facility. As a Section Manager you will supervise and provide leadership to assigned machining, fabrication, or logistics areas while adhering to Caterpillar's core values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment, and sustainability. You will own the value stream metrics for your respective section and partner with support groups in the implementation of changes needed. You will drive continuous improvement efforts as well as practice and teach CPS Lean principles.
Our Section Managers play a key role in our success by leading the production teams and maximizing efficiency in quality, velocity, and cost.
Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
Monitor and improve shop floor safety, aggressively eliminating unsafe processes
Assure fixtures, tooling and processes are followed to meet production schedules
Schedule and prioritize constrained resources, and adjust staffing to meet flow and customer requirements
Manage team performance and development
Increase production efficiency through continuous improvement and waste elimination via LEAN principles
Ensure preventive maintenance is performed according to schedule
Initiate and conduct process improvement dialogs with Team Leads and Team Members
Lead section status reporting and monitor / audit section metrics
Leas the creation, implementation, and training of standard work procedures
Basic Qualifications:
Top candidates will also have:
College degree (associates or higher)
1+ years of experience in a team lead or supervisory role in manufacturing, quality, supply chain, logistics
Good communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills
Ability to work with a diverse group of employees and customers; able to develop a cooperative work relationship with others inside and outside your department.
This posting is for multiple positions and Caterpillar Decatur is hiring across all shifts for these roles.
Employee Benefit Details:
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just a salary, because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits [medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401(k)] along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details:
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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 www.Caterpillar.com/Careers
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EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
There's more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.
Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee's contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we've built.
