.**Career Area**:Manufacturing**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.**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