Senior Manager Production

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Wuxi, Jiangsu

Senior Manager Production role at Caterpillar in Wuxi, Jiangsu, focused on managing day-to-day operations of testing facilities, including staffing, development, performance management, and overseeing test operations to meet safety, schedule, and performance requirements. The role also drives improvements in operations performance and implements production safety, cost, and quality control mechanisms, ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manages the day-to-day operations of all shifts of testing facilities.
  2. Managing staffing, development, and performance management programs for operations staff; managing, motivating, and developing management team.
  3. Overseeing test operations activities, ensuring that safety, and schedules and performance requirements are met and system resources are used effectively.
  4. Driving improvements for overall operations performance and implementing production safety, cost, and quality control mechanisms.
  5. Ensures the compliance of all regulatory guidelines and forges a safe and sound manufacturing environment.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or above in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related majors.
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in operation, manufacturing engineering, engineering, with proven leadership experience in team management.

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of approaches, tools and techniques for delivering formal and informal training on the safe and efficient operation of test machinery; ability to conduct effective formal and situation-specific training.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Rich knowledge of Lean manufacturing principles, Six sigma, or other process improvement and problem-solving tools.

What the JD emphasized

  • safety
  • performance management
  • regulatory guidelines