Career Area:
Manufacturing
Job Description:
Role Definition
The role manages the day-to-day operations of first shift of our EPD Griffin assembly facility.
What You Will Do
Managing staffing, development, and performance management programs for operations staff; managing, motivating, and developing management team.
Overseeing operations activities, ensuring that safety, and schedules and performance requirements are met and system resources are used effectively.
Driving improvements for overall operations performance and implementing production safety, cost, and quality control mechanisms.
Ensures the compliance of all regulatory guidelines and forges a safe and sound manufacturing environment.
Identifies the critical goals and tasks required to meet daily objectives.
Develops contingency plans or to improve processes and to avoid problems before they occur.
Evaluates linkages and interrelationships when prioritizing multiple responsibilities.
Manages conflicting priorities effectively.
Tracks the implementation of plans closely to ensure that desired outcomes are achieved.
What You Will Have (Basic Qualifications)
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.
Develops contingency plans or to improve processes and to avoid problems before they occur.
Manages conflicting priorities effectively.
Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.
Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
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.
Identifies opportunities to enhance performance, e.g., practice assignments, training, shadowing.
Ensures performance goals, checkpoints, and feedback focus on behaviors.
Provides documented input to formal performance review conducted by manager.
Observes individual performance and provides fair and objective feedback.
Uses formal and informal rewards and recognition programs for employees.
Manufacturing Operations: Knowledge of manufacturing operations; ability to perform day-to-day operations of a manufacturing plant or facility for products.
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.
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.
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.
Production Scheduling and Control: Knowledge of procedures and tools for scheduling and controlling production runs; ability to utilize knowledge of daily manufacturing processes to assure quality deliverables.
Follows existing procedures to set up, stage and ensure proper job completion.
Identifies demand patterns; implements demand management processes.
Coordinates appropriate production documentation and authorizations.
Confirms production requirements and lead times beforehand; assists in setting up production jobs.
Diagnoses and addresses production problems using established guidelines.
What Will Put You Ahead (Preferred Qualifications)
Bachelors Degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations Management, Business Administration or related discipline
Additional Information
This position may require up to 10% travel, primarily domestic.
US Domestic relocation assistance IS offered for this position.
Sponsorship is NOT available.
This position requires a 5-day-in-office presence.
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.
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Summary Pay Range:
$128,470.00 - $192,710.00
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:
July 31, 2026 - August 13, 2026
