Career Area:
Supply Chain and Logistics
Job Description:
**Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. **
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Role Definition Leads to ensure the accomplishment of distribution center goals, including those related to budget and cost structure.
Responsibilities
This “Manager Distribution” will lead the following main tasks in Supply Chain Planning team:
Act as a critical role to establish, implement, and enforce standardized warehouse processes for indirect materials, tools, fixtures, gauges, inspection equipment, and spare parts, ensuring full compliance with safety regulations, internal controls, and audit requirements in daily operations.
Be fully responsible for the centralized management of indirect materials warehouses, including receiving, storage, inventory control, issuing, return, and disposal activities, to ensure material availability, inventory accuracy, and optimized stock levels.
Oversee and continuously improve warehouse operating efficiency, including layout optimization, material classification, location management, and process simplification, to support increasing production volume and multi‑department demands.
Coordinate closely with Operation, Technical Service, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Purchasing and all the CTL teams to understand real usage needs, prevent shortages or excess inventory, and support smooth daily operations.
Lead, supervise, and develop warehouse personnel through clear job expectations, effective coaching, training, and performance management, while fostering a disciplined, collaborative, and positive working environment.
Drive digital and automated warehouse management practices, including system‑based inventory tracking, data accuracy improvement, and reporting, to support sustainable and scalable warehouse operations. • Making workflow decisions, improving service levels and costs for distribution center operations. • Supervising and motivating distribution center employees through effective coaching and training, clear communication of job expectations, and positive reinforcement of exemplary performance; maintaining a positive distribution center working environment. • Developing and implementing productivity, quality, and service standards. Resolving problems and identifying areas for improvements. Contributing performance data to strategic plans and reviews. • Ensuring all equipment receives preventative maintenance and repairs, as necessary. • Developing and ensuring execution for requirements and procedures for safety regulations.
Degree Requirement Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience desired
Skill Descriptors **Accuracy and Attention to Detail: **Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision. Level Working Knowledge: • 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.
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. Level Working Knowledge: • Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process. • Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas. • Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes. • Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns. • Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.
**Effective Communications: **Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors. Level Working Knowledge: • Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient. • Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness. • Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work. • Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate. • Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
**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. Level Working Knowledge: • 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.
**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 Working Knowledge: • 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.
Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations. Level Working Knowledge: • Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives. • Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder. • Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information. • Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution. • Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
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."
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Posting Dates:
May 15, 2026 - June 29, 2026
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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