Career Area:
Manufacturing
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.
Your Impact 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.
CATERPILLAR REMANUFACTURING Do you have a passion for helping customers and supporting a sustainable solution? Since 1973, Cat Reman has helped bring the value at the core of every Cat product back to life. Customers look to us to provide a high-quality solution that is good for their business - and promotes sustainability. It's important to us to deliver. Our team is full of industry leaders. Together, following common values, we share a passion for delivering sustainability benefits that help the company contribute to a circular economy. It’s rewarding to work, with an inspiring team, where every contribution matters.
Caterpillar’s Remanufacturing Division is looking for a 1st shift Production Manager for our Corinth, Mississippi facility. This position will oversee and coordinate the activities of the production line, prepare schedules, resolve issues, and ensure adherence to safety and quality standards.
Responsibilities to include but are not limited to:
- Creating reports and records of production processes, tools issues performance, and inventory; sharing them with managers and providing suggestions to improve safety, productivity and quality.
- Preparing, maintaining, and updating documentation related to operating procedures and safety and quality standards; ensuring all processes and products meet desired safety and quality standards.
- Supervising and directing the daily activities of production lines workers, assigning tasks, ensuring coordination between different teams, ensuring their safety and monitoring their performance.
- Training new hires, managing scheduling and work conflicts, monitoring safety, and promoting internal communication to create a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
Degree Requirement Degree or equivalent experience desired
What You Will Have: 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 Working Knowledge:
- Utilizes quality indicators relevant to own unit or function.
- Adheres to organizational quality management processes and practices.
- Applies key aspects of continuous improvement processes and evaluates impact on quality.
- Uses quality evaluation tools and techniques such as walkthroughs and inspections.
- Works with quality assurance methods, tools and techniques.
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 Working Knowledge:
- Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
- Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
- Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
- Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
- Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.
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.
Process Improvement: Understanding and insight into evaluating current product quality and production methods and ability to maintains focus on the continuous improvement of processes, products and services.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Defines the critical workflow for executing key processes.
- Identifies process problems that limit performance.
- Implements methods for improving and establishing controls for critical processes.
- Focuses on the most significant problems to maximize efficiency gains.
- Surfaces systemic problems to be addressed at the organizational level.
Talent Management: Knowledge of human resources and talent management processes; ability to lead, motivate, evaluate, and reward employees at the workplace.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Delegates tasks to the right people in managing a program or a group of people.
- Explains processes on hiring, leading, motivating, evaluating, developing and rewarding people.
- Coordinates work schedules and workloads for employees.
- Transforms resistance into support and turns poor performers into team players.
- Applies standard procedures and policies in the operation of talent management.
Manufacturing Operations: Knowledge of manufacturing operations; ability to perform day-to-day operations of a manufacturing plant or facility for products.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Identifies safety hazards and anomalies during the manufacturing process and reports to an immediate superior.
- Works with basic manufacturing related operation procedures like productivity enhancement, quality control, etc.
- Participates in regular and ad-hoc operations review meetings.
- Assists in the process improvement projects of the plant or facility to deliver high quality products.
- Follows regulatory processes and procedures for the plant or facility.
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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Consults on the use of new tools and techniques for safety protection.
- Performs safety inspections to assure compliance with OSHA requirements.
- 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 Training: Knowledge of approaches, tools and techniques for delivering formal and informal training on the safe and efficient operation of production machinery; ability to conduct effective formal and situation-specific training.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Prepares lesson plans and materials for upcoming training sessions.
- Documents the production process and writes user manuals detailing production machinery operation.
- Instructs staff in the basic set-up and operation of production machinery.
- Schedules and executes training sessions for production employees.
- Maintains records documenting employees' successful completion of production training programs.
What You Will Get! Employee benefit details: Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just an hourly wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits along with the potential of annual bonuses. Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
- 401k savings plan
- Health savings account (HSA)
- Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Life Insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Healthy Lifestyle Programs
- Employee Assistance Programs
- _Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection) _
All eligible candidates MUST pass the following pre-employment screenings before they can be hired to any Caterpillar position:
- Background Screening
- Drug & Alcohol Screening (Applicants are hereby advised that the Company has implemented a drug and alcohol policy and conducts a testing program, pursuant to Sections 71-7-1, et al., of the Mississippi Code of 1972, Ann. (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”), and you are hereby advised of the existence of said Act.)
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Visa sponsorship is **NOT **available for this position.
_This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at __www.caterpillar.com/careers_
Relocation assistance is offered for this position
About Caterpillar
_Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. _
Summary Pay Range:
$81,370.00 - $122,060.00
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
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Relocation is available for this position.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:
May 14, 2026 - May 21, 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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