Manager Production

Career Area:

Manufacturing

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.

职位概述

对所负责价值流的人员、安全、质量、交付、成本及设备绩效负全面责任。通过严谨的生产计划、跨职能协同、持续改善和现场领导，确保生产目标达成或超越。

核心职责

1. 生产运营与价值流绩效

•            制定并落实近期（至少3周）及中长期（3-12个月）生产计划，确保人员、设备、物料和产能匹配客户需求。

•            建立并持续提升高水准PQVC标准，推动一次做对，并对价值流PQVC绩效、MQ12005认证及Lean/CPS评估结果负责。

•            确保过程数据准确、及时、可追溯，并用于日常管理、资源配置和升级决策。

2. 设备主人翁与效率提升

•            主导“我的设备我作主”活动的策划、部署、执行与闭环，明确责任区、点检标准、异常响应、改善清单和结果复盘。

•            通过安全/浪费巡查审核安全行为、5S、质量、标准作业、生产率及设备综合效率（OEE），系统消除八大浪费。

•            推动设备可靠性和生产效率改善，协同生产、维修、工艺和质量团队解决重复性损失与瓶颈。

3. 质量管理与“质量风暴180”

•            主导“质量风暴180”等质量专项的策划、目标分解、现场实施、进度跟踪、问题关闭和有效性验证，确保成果可复制、可持续。

•            针对安全、质量、生产及成本损失，运用RCCA等方法分析根因，落实遏制、纠正、预防及标准化措施。

•            建立质量风险前移和快速响应机制，强化过程控制、分层审核及跨班组经验复制，减少缺陷、返工和客户风险。

4. 持续改善与创新应用

•            全面负责持续改善流程，建立创意产生、评估、试验、实施和标准化机制，及时清除障碍。

•            定期与Team Leader及Team Member开展改善对话，聚焦现场痛点、客户价值、流程能力和效率。

•            学习并评估先进制造技术，包括自动化、数字化制造、数据分析、智能质量、设备状态监测及适用的AI应用，将成熟方案转化为可控试点和量化改善。

•            以安全、质量、交付、成本和客户价值评估创新，避免“为技术而技术”，并有效管理风险、变更和标准化。

5. 人员领导、文化与组织能力

•            支持新业务/Day 1投产，通过招聘、培训、岗位认证和技能矩阵建设，确保团队具备安全稳定量产能力。

•            激励员工保持工作热情和主人翁意识，及时认可高绩效、好创意和正确行为；对偏差明确反馈、责任和后果，做到标准一致、奖惩分明。

•            营造创新、进取和持续学习的团队氛围，鼓励一线员工提出、验证和推广改善建议。

•            培养Team Leader和关键岗位人才，通过清晰目标、定期辅导、绩效反馈及继任梯队提升组织韧性。

•            以尊重、公平和合规的方式开展认可、奖励、纠偏和纪律管理，并与公司政策及HR流程一致。

6. 跨职能协同与客户价值

•            与质量、工艺、维修、物料、供应链、EHS及其他支持团队高效协同，推动问题快速升级、资源对齐和承诺兑现。

•            将现场改善与产品竞争力和客户价值连接，提升流程稳定性、产品质量、交付能力和成本竞争力。

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任职资格

• 机械工程、制造工程、工业工程或相关专业，本科及以上学历。
• 具备生产制造或相关现场运营经验。有 生产主管、生产领班或其他同等现场带队经验者优先。
• 对于尚无正式人员管理经验，但已展现出较强领导潜力、主人翁意识、学习敏捷性、影响力及问题解决能力，并有明确意愿向生产管理岗位发展的优秀候选人，也欢迎申请。
• 诚信正直，沟通协作能力强，具备承诺意识、团队精神和结果导向。
• 具备批判性思维和结构化问题解决能力，能运用RCCA、精益工具及数据分析推动问题闭环。
• 具备变革推动能力，能在跨职能环境中影响他人、化解阻力并推动改善落地。
• 熟练使用Microsoft Office（Word、Excel、PowerPoint）；具备良好的英语读写能力并愿意持续学习者优先。

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优先条件

• 具备库存、物料管理或供应链协同经验。
• 具备OEE提升、TPM/自主维护、精益制造、质量专项或数字化制造项目经验。
• 具备新产品导入、产线启动、产能爬坡或重大流程变更经验。

Job Summary

Accountable for people, safety, quality, velocity, cost, and equipment performance across the assigned value stream. Leads execution, cross-functional collaboration, continuous improvement, and capability building to meet or exceed production commitments.

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Key Accountabilities

1. Production Operations & Value Stream Performance

•            Develop and execute near-term (minimum three weeks) and long-range (3–12 months) production plans, aligning people, equipment, materials, and capacity with customer demand.

•            Establish and continuously improve world-class PQVC standards, promote right-first-time execution, and own value-stream performance, including MQ12005 certification and Lean/CPS assessment results.

•            Ensure process data is accurate, timely, and traceable, and use data to drive daily management, resource allocation, and escalation decisions.

2. Equipment Ownership & Efficiency

•            Lead the planning, deployment, execution, and closure of the “My Equipment, My Ownership” program, including ownership zones, inspection standards, abnormality response, improvement backlogs, and reviews.

•            Conduct safety and waste walks covering safety behavior, 5S, quality, standard work, productivity, and OEE to systematically eliminate the eight wastes.

•            Improve equipment reliability and production efficiency by coordinating production, maintenance, process engineering, and quality teams to eliminate recurring losses and constraints.

3. Quality Excellence & Quality Storm 180

•            Lead Quality Storm 180 and related campaigns through planning, target deployment, shop-floor implementation, progress tracking, issue closure, and effectiveness verification, ensuring repeatable and sustainable improvements.

•            Apply RCCA and other structured methods to safety, quality, production, and cost losses, ensuring containment, corrective action, prevention, and standardization.

•            Build proactive quality-risk prevention and rapid-response mechanisms, strengthen process controls and layered audits, and replicate learning across shifts to reduce defects, rework, and customer risk.

4. Continuous Improvement & Innovation

•            Own the continuous improvement process, enabling idea generation, evaluation, experimentation, implementation, and standardization while removing roadblocks.

•            Conduct regular process-improvement dialogues with Team Leaders and Team Members focused on shop-floor pain points, customer value, process capability, and efficiency.

•            Evaluate advanced manufacturing technologies, including automation, digital manufacturing, analytics, intelligent quality, condition monitoring, and applicable AI, converting viable solutions into controlled pilots and measurable improvements.

•            Evaluate innovation against safety, quality, delivery, cost, and customer value, avoiding technology for technology’s sake while effectively managing risk, change, and standardization.

5. People Leadership, Culture & Capability

•            Support Day 1 production launch through recruiting, training, job certification, and skill-matrix development to ensure readiness for safe and stable production.

•            Sustain employee engagement and ownership by recognizing strong performance, useful ideas, and desired behaviors promptly, while addressing deviations with clear feedback, accountability, and consequences applied consistently.

•            Build a culture of innovation, ambition, and continuous learning, encouraging frontline employees to propose, test, and scale improvement ideas.

•            Develop Team Leaders and critical-role talent through clear goals, regular coaching, performance feedback, and succession pipelines to strengthen organizational resilience.

•            Administer recognition, rewards, corrective action, and discipline respectfully, fairly, consistently, and in alignment with company policy and HR processes.

6. Cross-functional Collaboration & Customer Value

•            Partner effectively with Quality, Process Engineering, Maintenance, Materials, Supply Chain, EHS, and other support functions to accelerate escalation, align resources, and deliver commitments.

•            Connect shop-floor improvements to product competitiveness and customer value by improving process stability, product quality, delivery capability, and cost competitiveness.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience in manufacturing or shopfloor operations; team leadership experience is preferred.
• High-potential candidates without formal management experience are also welcome if they demonstrate strong ownership, leadership potential and problem-solving skills, with an interest in developing into production management.
• High integrity, strong communication and collaboration skills, commitment, teamwork, and results orientation.
• Strong critical thinking and structured problem-solving capability, with the ability to apply RCCA, Lean tools, and data analysis to close issues.
• Demonstrated change leadership, with the ability to influence across functions, remove resistance, and translate improvements into execution.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); good English reading and writing skills and a strong commitment to continuous learning preferred.

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in inventory, materials management, or supply chain collaboration.
• Experience in OEE improvement, TPM/autonomous maintenance, Lean manufacturing, quality campaigns, or digital manufacturing projects.
• Experience in new product introduction (NPI), line start-up, production ramp-up, or major process change initiatives.

Posting Dates:

十一月 12, 2026 - 十一月 30, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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