Transportation Specialist

hace 1 semana

Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, México Caterpillar A tiempo completo

Career Area:

Supply Chain and Logistics

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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.

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Role Definition

Analyzes and develops transportation plans to control the movement of commodities throughout a manufacturing or distribution network to ensure the smooth running of operations at optimal transportation cost levels.


Responsibilities

  • Analyzing transportation plans and identifying opportunities for improvements to meet client needs.
  • Implementing and maintaining monitoring systems to provide information on shipment status, shipped date, in transit location, estimated arrival date, and actual delivery date.
  • Generating and analyzing reports of transportation costs, carrier performance and lead times.
  • Assisting in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity and providing solutions to reduce lead times.

Skill Descriptors

Process Management:

  • Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
  • Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and handoffs for a specific process.
  • Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.
  • Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
  • Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.

Analytical Thinking:

  • Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
  • Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
  • Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
  • Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
  • Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
  • Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking:

  • Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decisionmaking 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.

Problem Solving:

  • 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 factfinding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Relationship Management:

  • Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties.
  • Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship.
  • Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes.
  • Maintains productive, longterm relationships with clients or vendors.
  • Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities.
  • Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships.

Transportation - PHA:

  • Demonstrates expertise with all major modes of domestic transportation.
  • Shares approaches for assessing transportation alternatives and selecting optimum mode.
  • Conducts joint planning with carriers to forecast short
- and long-term transportation needs.

  • Participates in evaluation, selection, monitoring and termination of carriers.
  • Works with shippers to plan for and mitigate the transportation capacity crunch.
  • Negotiates and monitors rates and service controls with major carriers.

Logistics Management:

  • Uses tools, with guidance, to forecast delivery times, determine costs and assess performance.
  • Works with logistics in a domestic environment.
  • Maintains records of all shipments and invoices using an established system.
  • Assists in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity.
  • Participates in integrating logistics processes and developing effective networks.

Supply Chain Management:

  • Recognizes software systems or components used to manage supply chain.
  • Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities.
  • Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.
  • Summarizes supply chain considerations for different types of products.
  • Works with a specific part of supply chain management process.

What is required:

  • Bachelor's degree completed.
  • Minimum of 710 years of Lo

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