Production Manager, Operations – Electric Power

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About EPD

Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

Job Summary
The Production Manager plays a critical hands‑on leadership role in driving safe, efficient, and high‑quality production within a fast‑paced manufacturing environment. This role leads frontline teams, sets the tone for a strong safety culture, and ensures daily operations align with business priorities for quality, delivery, and cost. As a working leader, you will coach and develop employees, solve problems in real time, and continuously improve processes to support operational excellence.

What You Will Do 

• Supervise and direct day‑to‑day production operations, including leading daily production meetings, assigning work, coordinating across teams, monitoring performance, and ensuring all safety and production targets are met.

• Ensure a safe work environment by actively monitoring floor activities, reinforcing safety standards, and addressing issues promptly to maintain compliance with all safety requirements.

• Develop, maintain, and update operating procedures, safety documentation, and quality standards to ensure processes and products consistently meet company and regulatory requirements.

• Track, analyze, and report on production performance, issues, and metrics; communicate production status to the team and recommend improvements to safety, productivity, and quality.

• Train and onboard new employees, manage staffing schedules, address work conflicts, and support employee development to build a high‑performing, collaborative team.

• Foster a culture of open communication, accountability, and continuous improvement across production operations.

• Act as a working, hands‑on manager when needed while actively developing team capability, supporting business objectives, and driving operational excellence.

• Lead with safety as the top priority under the PQVC model (People, Quality, Velocity, Cost), ensuring decisions and actions consistently protect employees while driving quality output, on‑time delivery, and cost effectiveness.

Degree Requirement

Bachelor’s degree preferred; significant leadership experience and proven success in manufacturing or production operations may substitute for formal education

What You Will Have

• Problem Solving: Working 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.

  • 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 fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

• Performance Management: Working 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.

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

  • Ensures performance goal