Senior Manager Production - México - Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation

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SENIOR MANAGER PRODUCTION – CIENEGA DE FLORES

Role Definition
Manages the day-to-day operations of all shifts of a large facility or multiple manufacturing facilities.

Responsibilities

• Managing staffing, development, and performance management programs for operations staff; managing, motivating, and developing management team.

• Overseeing operations activities, ensuring that safety, and schedules and performance requirements are met and system resources are used effectively.

• Driving improvements for overall operations performance and implementing production safety, cost, and quality control mechanisms.

• Ensures the compliance of all regulatory guidelines and forges a safe and sound manufacturing environment.

Skill Descriptors
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 Extensive Experience:

• Interprets results of quantitative and statistical tools and explains results to others.

• Communicates key benefits of a quality management process.

• Conducts and directs quality reviews.

• Develops expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.

• Develops quality assurance processes based on Six Sigma, ISO 9000 or Baldrige principles.

• Develops programs for motivating employees to meet or exceed quality goals.

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 Extensive Experience:

• Updates stakeholders on potential changes; re-negotiates requirements as necessary.

• Identifies the critical goals and tasks required to meet daily objectives.

• Develops contingency plans or to improve processes and to avoid problems before they occur.

• Evaluates linkages and interrelationships when prioritizing multiple responsibilities.

• Manages conflicting priorities effectively.

• Tracks the implementation of plans closely to ensure that desired outcomes are achieved.

Performance Management: 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.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Identifies opportunities to enhance performance, e.g., practice assignments, training, shadowing.

• Ensures performance goals, checkpoints, and feedback focus on behaviors.

• Provides documented input to formal performance review conducted by manager.

• Observes individual performance and provides fair and objective feedback.

• Uses formal and informal rewards and recognition programs for employees.

Manufacturing Operations: Knowledge of manufacturing operations; ability to perform day-to-day operations of a manufacturing plant or facility for products.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Monitors organizational adherence to policies and procedures.

• Facilitates communications across departments to ensure a smooth workflow in the plant or facility.

• Evaluates the risks and safety hazards present in manufacturing operations.

• Recommends key industry benchmarks of manufacturing operations and relates to own organization.

• Supervises daily operations to ensure production targets and forecasts are achieved.

• Employs tools and techniques for anticipating demand and assuring capacity.

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.

Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies: Knowledge of organizational standards, procedures and policies in manufacturing activities; ability to plan, guide, and monitor manufacturing processes for compliance.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Contributes to the development and implementation of specific manufacturing procedures.

• Investigates the need to refer potential exceptions upward for review and approval.

• Explains the rationale for procedures and standards in own area of responsibility.

• Participates in the implementation of manufacturing standards and procedures to one's own function.

• Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.

Production Scheduling and Control: Knowledge of procedures and tools for scheduling and controlling production runs; ability to utilize knowledge of daily manufacturing processes to assure quality deliverables.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Follows existing procedures to set up, stage and ensure proper job completion.

• Identifies demand patterns; implements demand management processes.

• Coordinates appropriate production documentation and authorizations.

• Confirms production requirements and lead times beforehand; assists in setting up production jobs.

• Diagnoses and addresses production problems using established guidelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or similar
• Four to ten years in a variety of Staff and Supervisory positions in order to delivery positions.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Quality Systems and Precision Machining Operations
• The incumbent must be a strong communicator and have strong leadership and managerial skills to direct and motivate people to ensure divisional goals are met.

Top Candidates

• Fluent English
• Black Belt Training

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