Production Scheduling Manager – Sanford Advanced Manufacturing

Caterpillar Inc.•Sanford, NC

7d•$128,470 - $192,710•Onsite

About The Position

Caterpillar Inc. is establishing a new advanced manufacturing campus in Sanford, North Carolina, to increase production capacity for compact track loaders and telehandlers. This modern, technology-driven facility will integrate automation, robotics, digital production systems, and logistics to improve safety, quality, and performance. Employees will contribute to building essential products while gaining skills in advanced manufacturing and supporting the growth of Caterpillar’s Cat Compact℠ business.

Requirements

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Cross-Team Integration: Understanding of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Problem Solving: 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.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading production scheduling, master scheduling, production control, or manufacturing planning in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
Advanced Microsoft Excel, data visualization, or production-performance reporting skills.
Knowledge of prime products and attachments
Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, organization, and communication skills
Glovia, CMOPS & SAP Experience
Sales and Production Planning Experience (S&OP)
Experience with capacity planning, inventory management, demand planning, material planning, Sales and Operations Planning, or supply-chain execution.
Knowledge of lean manufacturing, value-stream mapping, structured root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
Experience leading schedulers, planners, production-control professionals, or a cross-functional planning team.
APICS or Association for Supply Chain Management certification, such as Certified in Planning and Inventory Management, as a preferred rather than required qualification.

Responsibilities

Lead the development, coordination, execution, and control of complex production schedules across assigned product lines, manufacturing areas, or facilities.
Translate customer demand, capacity, inventory, labor availability, equipment constraints, material availability, and quality requirements into practical production plans.
Oversee Sanford fabrications production calendars and monitor inventory levels to support main assembly line production.
Analyze and troubleshoot planned production scheduling problems, bottlenecks, and capacity conflicts; recommend process improvements to optimize the team efficiency and scheduling process.
Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, procurement, quality, engineering, and other teams to incorporate customer and business requirements into production plans.
Provide supply commitments and capacity-based recommendations to support the Sales and Operations Planning process.
Monitor schedule performance, production flow, inventory position, capacity utilization, and delivery risks; communicate changes and recovery plans to affected stakeholders.
Improve scheduling processes using workflow analysis, cycle-time evaluation, standardized work, root-cause problem solving, and continuous improvement methods.
Align schedule and capacity plans to JIT inventory strategies as appropriate.