Career Area:
Supply Chain and Logistics
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.
About SPM Oil & Gas:
SPM Oil & Gas, a Caterpillar company, provides superior products and service solutions to make our customers more efficient and lower total cost of ownership. Globally, we deliver engineered oilfield and drilling equipment repair and certification, mechanical and rotating equipment repairs and upgrades, rapid prototyping of spare parts, robust asset management, operation and maintenance and field engineering services. We offer a wide range of career opportunities across a variety of technical and business roles in engineering and service locations worldwide. Join our team and help build engineering solutions that change the industry.
**About the Role: **
The Distribution Center Manager manages the daily operation and execution of the SPM Distribution Center which is the central hub for inbound and outbound material flow to support SPM’s western hemisphere business and exports to SPM’s eastern hemisphere business. Activities at the distribution include: receiving, picking, kitting, packing, and shipping (domestic and international). Raw material, semi-finished material, component inventory and finished product flow through the distribution center. Shipments made from the distribution go to SPM’s manufacturing operations, SPM Service Centers, and directly to SPM’s customers.
Additional Information:
- Location: Fort Worth, Texas
- Travel: Up to 20%
- This position requires 5 days onsite and oversight of multiple shifts
What Will You Do:
- Lead an organization of (4) supervisors and over 50 warehouse associates
- Foster a safety-first culture by demonstrating and cascading through the distribution center the principles of care, learn, and prevent
- Monitor and achieve picking throughput targets
- Responsible for inventory record accuracy, adherence to first in first out lot control management, and disposing of obsolete and surplus inventory
- Acute focus of on-time delivery to fulfill customer demand
- Collaborate and closely coordinate with operations and service centers to meet their demands and consistently deliver material to plan
- Manage a monthly budget to achieve headcount, equipment, and operational expense targets
**What Will You Have: **
- Effectiveness Measurement: Knowledge of effective measurement techniques and ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of improvement.
- 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.
- Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
- **Forecasting: **Knowledge of forecasting tools, approaches and practices; ability to determine product demand and estimate production requirements and load on the distribution center.
- **Supply Chain Management - MFG: **Knowledge of functions, principles and techniques used in supply chain management; ability to develop and use, strategies, practices and tools for controlling the logistical processes.
- 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.
Summary Pay Range:
$147,760.00 - $221,640.00
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:
May 28, 2026 - June 11, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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