Production Supervisor I

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Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

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. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Role Definition
Oversees and coordinates the activities of the production line, prepares schedules, resolves issues, and ensures adherence to safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities
•    Creating reports and records of production processes, tools issues performance, and inventory; sharing them with managers and providing suggestions to improve safety, productivity and quality.
•    Preparing, maintaining, and updating documentation related to operating procedures and safety and quality standards; ensuring all processes and products meet desired safety and quality standards.
•    Supervising and directing the daily activities of production lines workers, assigning tasks, ensuring coordination between different teams, ensuring their safety and monitoring their performance.
•    Training new hires, managing scheduling and work conflicts, monitoring safety, and promoting internal communication to create a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Skill Descriptors
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 Basic Understanding: 
•    Names specific tools or techniques that can be used to support the analytical thinking process.
•    Describes specific software applications or products used for business analytics.
•    Gives examples of how analytical thinking has been used to resolve problems.
•    Helps others research and learn more about business analytics tools and applications.

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 Working Knowledge: 
•    Raises awareness of potential bottlenecks and disruptions to the schedule.
•    Breaks tasks into manageable steps that can be incorporated into a personal work plan.
•    Escalates concerns over competing or conflicting priorities.
•    Monitors progress continuously and adjusts tactics for handling situations on a case by case basis.
•    Creates action plans that ensure the accomplishment of responsibilities.

Process Improvement: Understanding and insight into evaluating current product quality and production methods and ability to maintains focus on the continuous improvement of processes, products and services.
Level Basic Understanding: 
•    Identifies the main processes for which the group is responsible.
•    Demonstrates the ability to improve on ways of doing things.
•    Applies the concept of continuous improvement to identify opportunities for greater efficiency.
•    Seeks help to implement ideas for process improvement for the group.

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 Basic Understanding: 
•    Demonstrates an understanding of performance management concepts.
•    Describes organization's performance management process.
•    Explains organization's core performance factors and ratings.
•    Participates in own performance review or performance checkpoint session.

Manufacturing Operations: Knowledge of manufacturing operations; ability to perform day-to-day operations of a manufacturing plant or facility for products.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Identifies safety hazards and anomalies during the manufacturing process and reports to an immediate superior.
•    Works with basic manufacturing related operation procedures like productivity enhancement, quality control, etc.
•    Participates in regular and ad-hoc operations review meetings.
•    Assists in the process improvement projects of the plant or facility to deliver high quality products.
•    Follows regulatory processes and procedures for the plant or facility.

Manufacturing Safety: Knowledge of manufacturing