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Caterpillar, Inc. Manufacturing Strategy and Development Manager in Mossville, Illinois
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.
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.
Job Summary:
Plans, directs, and leads large scale engineering staff and activities to ensure projects, initiatives and processes comply with established policies/objectives.
The manufacturing strategy and development senior manager will play a key role in the development of manufacturing strategy at Caterpillar as well as the execution and scaling of best practices across the global enterprise. Key responsibilities include the growth and development of relationships with facilities and business units, planning and directing implementation strategies, and ensuring that best practices and common solutions are scaled as Caterpillar transitions to an Industry 4.0 architecture. Key partners will be Caterpillar IT, Business unit manufacturing teams, facility leaders and our extensive partner network.
What You Will Do:
• Ensure high awareness across the enterprise of manufacturing capabilities and common practices. This includes communicating enterprise strategies for assembly, fabrication, machining, test and digital initiatives as well as supporting footprint strategy across the enterprise. Role will also aid in assessing best practices and influencing to create a scaled approach to industry 4.0
• Working directly with Business unit manufacturing professionals to provide manufacturing expertise in the planning, implementation, and support of processes, procedures, machinery, and tooling to improve efficiency, cost effectiveness, quality, and safety.
• Create and maintain a clear definition and portfolio of best practices to support expedited replication. - Driving process changes leveraging research and process performance data to identify and implement changes that improve outcomes with regard to people, quality, velocity, cost and safety.
• Collaborate with enterprise councils and leader forums to gain support for the best solutions
• Managing the activities and resources for manufacturing technical leaders, engineers, process design and support personnel. -Providing on-going support for manufacturing challenges; engages resources to drive resolution for technically challenging and strategic production problems.
• Role will also perform as the chief-of -staff for the Manufacturing Technology & Solutions Division.
Education Requirement:
4-year degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or Business
What Skills You Will Have:
Operational Functions:
• Leads discussions on the evolution and impact of technology, present and future.
• Monitors industry trends, key players, and major competitors; develops strategies accordingly. • Educates others in operational strategies and the support needed for them.
• Leads evaluations of organization's operating functions versus those of the industry.
• Coaches others to consider all major operational functions and cross-functional issues.
• Leads engagements with customer business units to align manufacturing needs for automation, digital initiatives, and other services with available resources and capabilities. Prepares materials for engagements with audience appropriate depth.
Collaborating:
• Demonstrates a collaborative style to problem solving and the achievement of business goals.
• Establishes shared goals to foster collaboration.
• Ensures access the same data and provides input into how business is conducted.
• Deemphasizes divides; focuses on collaboration and common solutions across generations, functions, regions, and levels.
• Implements methods for people to collectively make decisions, solve problems, and develop products/services in the best interest of the enterprise.
Continuous Transformation:
• Anticipates the impact of change in markets, politics and culture on the organization and its clients.
• Generates new ideas, approaches, and solutions in response to changing demands or environment.
• Integrates emerging industry best practices into current working processes.
• Leads the team to deal with, respond to and actively seek changes and innovative opportunities. • Builds an environment of openness to new ideas and approaches.
Organizational Leadership:
• Ability to lead with influence and align objectives to create scaled solutions across facilities and business units.
• Employs various group decision-making methods depending on the situation. • Promotes efficacy through monitoring, coaching & motivating subordinates, intervention, etc. • Translates vision into specific functional or departmental initiatives.
• Initiates structure: role clarification, setting standards, holding subordinates accountable, etc.
Influencing Through Expertise:
• Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner
• Exhibits depth, breadth of knowledge, judgement, and skill in the decision making.
• Provides relevant, timely and objective subject matter expertise and key insight toward client business areas and affiliated fields.
• Demonstrates and coaches others to enhance their proficiency regarding the tenets, practices, and examples of the 'trusted advisor' credential.
Project Management:
• Utilizes preferred tools, techniques, and methods for estimating project cost and time.
• Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes, and monitors significant projects. Identifies risks and contingencies.
• Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients. • Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.
• Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.
Capacity Planning & Management - MFG:
• Works with R&D (research & development) staff to plan resource and capacity requirements for products under development.
• Advises on multiple cycles of short- and long-term capacity planning for product or site.
• Compares and contrasts alternative approaches and tools for capacity planning.
• Develops estimates and costs for incremental capacity requirements.
Lean:
• Creates a culture of Lean that supports growth of individuals and teams and drives toward rapid yet agile decision making.
• Mentors others on the organizational and cultural transformation needed for effective lean execution of deliverables.
• Leads discussions on the future of lean manufacturing; cites successes and failures. Encourages the “Art of the Possible”
• Establishes and monitors benchmarks for measuring effectiveness of current enterprise process and capabilities
Additional Information
The locations for this position are Mossville, IL; Seguin, TX; Tucson, AZ; Griffin, GA, Lafayette, IN; Decatur, IL; South Milwaukee, WI.
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position may require up to 40% travel.
What You Will Get:
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 wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides:
Competitive Base Salary
Annual incentive bonus plan*
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
401k savings plan
Health savings account (HSA)
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
Short and long-term disability coverage
Life Insurance
Paid parental leave
Healthy Lifestyle Programs
Employee Assistance Programs
Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)
*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.
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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Relocation is available for this position.
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 www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Posting Dates:
June 28, 2024 - July 12, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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