**Career Area**:Manufacturing**Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
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**Senior Manager Manufacturing Operations - Cienega de Flores****Role Definition**Oversees and directs daily plant operations including production and manufacturing, maintenance, engineering support, safety, regulatory compliance, distribution and warehousing.
**Responsibilities**- Overseeing programs and practices for hiring, performance management and developing/training the personnel that perform and support the plant operating functions.
- Directing all aspects of manufacturing operations for the plant or facility in order to produce cost-effective, timely and high-quality products in a safe, secure and sanitary working environment.
- Managing development, implementation and continual improvement of the operating methods, equipment, systems, and other operating infrastructure used to realize operating goals and objectives.
- Directing development of production work schedules to meet internal goals and customer expectations; monitoring process and personnel performance of scheduled work activities to remove operating impediments and achieve established operating goals.
**Skill DescriptorsLevel Extensive Experience:- Uses organization's preferred budgeting software tools.
- Compares planned budgets vs. actual expenditures, identifies, reports, and explains variances.




- Works with business managers to create appropriate budget amounts.
- Participates in developing budget adjustment procedures and practices.
- Develops and manages large and important budgets.
- Evaluates past business decisions and associated budgetary considerations and impact.Quality Management: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.Level Extensive Experience:- Interprets results of quantitative and statistical tools and explains results to others.
- Communicates key benefits of a quality management process.
- Conducts and directs quality reviews.
- Develops expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
- Develops quality assurance processes based on Six Sigma, ISO **** or Baldrige principles.
- Develops programs for motivating employees to meet or exceed quality goals.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 Extensive Experience:- Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
- Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
- Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.




- Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
- Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
- Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.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 Expert:- Optimizes time, tools, and resources to achieve desired results.
- Manages links among multiple projects and anticipates the impact of the project's outcome on all concerned.
- Synthesizes pertinent information to plan a course of action.
- Documents plans with clear objectives, action steps, accountabilities, resource requirements and timelines.
- Tracks successes in order to establish processes viewed as effective for the entire enterprise.
- Specifies the underlying assumptions related to designated work.Level Expert:- Plays a leading role in designing individual and team reward and recognition systems.
- Identifies key issues in integrating selection, development, recognition, and reward systems.
- Coaches less experienced managers in the processes of performance management.
- Monitors industry for new approaches or ideas re performance management.
- Takes part in developing and implementing enterprise-wide performance management systems.
- Champions a climate that supports and rewards excellent group and individual performance.Manufacturing Operations: Knowledge of manufacturing operations; ability to perform day-to-day operations of a manufacturing pl

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