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Job Summary

This position will perform forecasting, scheduling, material planning, and tracking real-time performance in order to support growing business. Position can be located at our facility in Mossville, IL or Irving, TX

What You Will Do:

• Conducting forecasting to drive decision-making.
• Liaising with operational management teams on all matters related to resource planning.
• Producing effective resource scheduling to maximize performance and meet KPIs/SLA.
• Maintaining inventory levels and coordinating material movement to support production plan
• Analyzing business problems with a focus on understanding root causes and driving forward-looking opportunities.
  

What You Will Have

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

•     Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.

•     Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.

•     Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.

•     Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.

•     Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.

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.

•     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.

Capacity Planning & Management - MFG: Knowledge of tools, approaches and practices for determining production demand and ability to manage resources needed to provide satisfactory levels of service.

•     Documents major considerations of product promotions and analyzes their effect on production and required capacity.

•     Provides management reports on actual and projected capacity requirements.

•     Uses available tools to interpret forecasts and work out required capacity.

•     Participates in developing short-term capacity requirements for a specific product or plant.

•     Collects and collates key elements of demand chain used in developing capacity requirements.

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.

•     Participates in gathering and analyzing an organization's data based on requirements.

•     Follows proper data gathering and analysis processes and policies.

•     Utilizes basic data collection and evaluation tools and techniques.

•     Reports problems that arise in the data collection process.

•     Documents data from various sources and in various formats.

Forecasting: Knowledge of forecasting tools, approaches and practices; ability to determine product demand and estimate production requirements and loads.

•     Participates in preparation of short-term forecasts for a specific product or site.

•     Gathers and analyzes demand data with specific tools and procedures.

•     Locates useful information and sources of input used in weekly, monthly and quarterly forecasts.

•     Researches seasonal trends for a major product or product line.

•     Explains common types of business conditions and activities that impact demand.

Internal Resource Coordination: Knowledge of the techniques, tools and applications associated with coordination of internal resources; ability to synchronize and integrate activities, responsibilities, and command and control structures to ensure that internal resources are used most efficiently in pursuit of business objectives.

•     Identifies basic characteristics of good business relationships or partnerships.

•     Attends training to learn coordination skills with individuals and groups.

•     Lists major techniques, tools and approaches for resource coordination.

•     Describes the organization's culture and policies for coordinating with others.

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.

•     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.

Degree Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience desired

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 an hourly wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits along with the potential of annual bonuses.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

•             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)

All eligible candidates MUST pass the following pre-employment screenings before they can be hired to any Caterpillar position:

•             Background Screening

•             Drug & Alcohol Screening

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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

Domestic relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Summary Pay Range:

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

Posting Dates:

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

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