Facility Manager

**Career Area**:
Manufacturing

**Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.**

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**Job Summary**:
Oversees and directs large plant operations in Acuna, Coahuila, Mx location including production and manufacturing, maintenance, engineering support, safety, regulatory compliance, distribution and warehousing, with responsibility of around 1600 employees. Facility core process is welding manufacturing components for Electric Trucks, Motor Graders, Mining Trucks, Wheel Tractor Scrapers and Large Wheel loaders.

**What You Will Do**:

- Directing all aspects of manufacturing operations for the plant or facility in order to produce cost-effective, timely and high-quality products in a safe, secure and sanitary working environment
- Managing development, implementation and continual improvement of the operating methods, equipment, systems and other operating infrastructure used to realize operating goals and objectives
- Directing development of production work schedules to meet internal goals and customer expectations; monitoring process and personnel performance of scheduled work activities to remove operating impediments and achieve established operating goals
- Ensuring customer satisfaction, developing and maintaining processes, managing the operating systems and maintaining the facility. Must meet key indicators, demonstrating improvement in cost reduction, asset turns, period costs and total employment
- Overseeing programs and practices for hiring, performance management and developing/training the personnel that perform and support the plant operating functions

**Education requirement**:
Bachelor’s degree in an Engineer area. Desired Master’s degree

**What skills you will have**:
**Manufacturing Safety**:

- Promotes workplace safety among supervisors and workers; communicates safety rules and regulations
- Performs safety inspections to assure compliance with OSHA requirements
- Assesses and reports unusual or new safety hazards or violations; initiates corrective action

**Manufacturing Operations**:

- Knowledge of welding process, desired in manufacturing and / or components
- Knowledge of technology 4/0 to implement in Manufacturing process
- Builds a monitoring system to track manufacturing operation activities.
- Sets and oversees all operational routines for departments and staff.
- Designs strategies to minimize machinery problems and safety risks within the organization
- Develops plans for movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units.

**Quality Management**:

- Communicates key benefits of a quality management process
- Develops quality assurance processes based on Six Sigma, ISO 9000 principles.
- Develops programs for motivating employees to meet or exceed quality goals

**Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies**:

- Consults on development and implementation of cross-functional standards
- Participates in the development of organizational policies and practices
- Ensures communication vehicles are effectively informing policies and practices to all employees

**Additional Information**:
The location for this position is Acuna, Coahuila, MX

Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.

This position will than less 10% travel.

English is required to maintain effective communications with teams outside of Mexico

**What you will get**:
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 wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that include a Competitive Base Salary, Annual incentive bonus plan*, Life Insurance, Medical Insurance, Employee Assistance Programs
- Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

**Final details**:
**The Caterpillar Code of Conduct states that we will select, and place employees based on their qualifications for the job to be performed, without regard to race, religion, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or disability. In this company we do not request pregnancy tests, nor HIV tests as requirements for employment entry, permanence or promotion.**

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Relocation is available for this position.
**Posting Dates**:
September 27, 2024 - October 11, 2024
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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