Team Leader

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Wuxi, Jiangsu

Caterpillar is seeking a Team Leader for their Operations team in Wuxi, Jiangsu. The role involves leading a production team to achieve PQVC targets, collaborating with engineers on problem-solving and continuous improvement, and ensuring adherence to quality, cost, safety, and environmental standards. The position requires experience in team management, knowledge of lean manufacturing principles (CPS, 6 Sigma, 5S, OPM), and a strong focus on safety and efficiency.

What you'd actually do

  1. As a production team leader, in addition to being responsible for completing the team's PQVC goals, you should actively cooperate with engineers to track and discover problems for improvement, and be able to actively coordinate support departments for key problems, and continuously improve the ability to solve production line problems; In addition, there are other tasks assigned by the supervisor.
  2. As a team leader, you are a member of the operations leadership team helping to shape team culture, providing direct leadership to employees in factory policies, procedures, and practices, and taking responsibility for future team and business results.
  3. Provide team support for the operations department to achieve its vision and strategic plan. Provide input and support for operations management regarding business plan performance.
  4. Ensure an effective skills base within your team, maintain records of team member training; independently complete other training beneficial to the job.
  5. Fill in for other team members when needed (minimum achievement of being competent in all operations in the area).

Skills

Required

  • Team leadership
  • Communication skills
  • Strong sense of responsibility
  • Team spirit
  • Honest communication
  • Expressing true opinions
  • Reaching consensus
  • Understanding and identifying 8 wastes
  • Identifying safety risks
  • Identifying quality risks
  • 5S principles
  • OPM principles
  • One year or more of team management experience
  • Production process execution
  • Safety awareness
  • Proficiency in office software
  • Ability to describe problems clearly
  • Ability to propose suggestions and solutions
  • Adaptability to shift work and overtime

Nice to have

  • CPS knowledge
  • 6 Sigma knowledge
  • SPC
  • PFMEA
  • RCCA
  • NCM
  • TPM

What the JD emphasized

  • must have one year or more of team management experience and execution of production processes
  • must have one year or more of team management experience and execution of production processes
  • must have one year or more of team management experience and execution of production processes