2nd Shift Fabrications Production Manager

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Brooklyn Park, MN

This role is for a 2nd Shift Fabrications Production Manager at Caterpillar, responsible for guiding a team in the Fabrications and Machining departments to achieve performance goals related to People, Quality, Velocity, and Cost (PQVC). The manager will focus on safety, production efficiency, quality control, and implementing corporate initiatives like Lean Manufacturing and 6 Sigma. Key skills include problem-solving, performance management, decision-making, communication, and planning/organizing. The role involves managing staff, ensuring production schedules are met, and maintaining a safe and efficient work environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Monitor and improve safety on the shop floor; eliminate any unsafe operations and ensure a safe and clean product environment.
  2. Determine processing needs to assure fixtures, tooling and methods are provided to meet schedules and production requirements.
  3. Daily tie-in with production management to designate work load, priorities and sequence for work assigned.
  4. Determine overtime need, establish priorities when resources are insufficient, and evaluate when disciplinary action is necessary.
  5. Suggest changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency. Works to improve processes, timeliness and reduce costs by eliminating non-value-added activities.

Skills

Required

  • Problem Solving
  • Performance Management
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking
  • Effective Communications
  • Planning and Organizing

Nice to have

  • Extensive leadership experience in a Manufacturing environment
  • Good communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills
  • Ability to work with a diverse group of employees and customers.