Caterpillar Inc.

Career Area:
Supply Chain and Logistics
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're&nbsp;joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other.&nbsp; We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't&nbsp;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.
<ul>
<li>Maintains agreed-upon inventory levels to provide a flow of raw materials and components from the supply chain to the manufacturing facility.</li>
<li>Supervising and controlling new sales orders, identifying the key elements and communicate downstream for required actions.</li>
<li>Serving as primary contact for customer inquiries; providing feedback about lead time, planned timeline, order change, order reschedules, etc.</li>
<li>Primary contact with other departments department to manage sales and customer priorities.</li>
</ul>
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
<ul>
<li>Ensuring that the environment of the inventory stock room is in line with requirements for each product.</li>
<li>Managing staffing, development, and performance management of materials management workers. Ensuring proper labor relations.</li>
<li>Maintaining optimal inventory levels. Performing inventory analysis and making recommendations for stock levels.</li>
<li>Coordinating maintenance and support of inventory management software.</li>
</ul>
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:
<ul>
<li>Names specific tools or techniques that can be used to support the analytical thinking process.</li>
<li>Describes specific software applications or products used for business analytics.</li>
<li>Gives examples of how analytical thinking has been used to resolve problems</li>
<li>Helps others research and learn more about business analytics tools and applications.</li>
</ul>
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Basic Understanding:
<ul>
<li>Explains characteristics and steps in an effective decision-making process.</li>
<li>Identifies issues and communicates with others when a decision needs to be made.</li>
<li>Names decision makers in own environment and cites examples of past decisions.</li>
<li>Describes types of decisions incumbent may and may not make in own job or function.</li>
</ul>
Inventory Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods of inventory management; ability to effectively manage local or distributed inventories of raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods.
Level Working Knowledge:
<ul>
<li>Follows processes to take stock, release inventory or return into processing; resolves discrepancies.</li>
<li>Tracks inventory information for a specific product group or location.</li>
<li>Works with basic tasks of inventory management for a specific location.</li>
<li>Produces basic inventory management reports for senior staff to reconcile the inventory balances.</li>
<li>Performs the receiving, ticketing, checking in and distributing of inventory items for a specific location.</li>
</ul>
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.
Level Working Knowledge:
<ul>
<li>Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.</li>
<li>Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.</li>
<li>Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.</li>
<li>Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.</li>
</ul>
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 Working Knowledge:
<ul>
<li>Defines the critical workflow for executing key processes.</li>
<li>Identifies process problems that limit performance.</li>
<li>Implements methods for improving and establishing controls for critical processes.</li>
<li>Focuses on the most significant problems to maximize efficiency gains.</li>
<li>Surfaces systemic problems to be addressed at the organizational level.</li>
</ul>
Supply Chain Management - MFG: Knowledge of functions, principles and techniques used in supply chain management; ability to develop and use, strategies, practices and tools for controlling the logistical processes.
Level Working Knowledge:
<ul>
<li>Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.</li>
<li>Recognizes software systems or components used to manage supply chain.</li>
<li>Summarizes supply chain considerations for different types of products or components.</li>
<li>Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities.</li>
<li>Works with a specific part of supply chain management process</li>
</ul>
What you will have:
<ul>
<li>Bachelor's Degree</li>
<li>75-80%&nbsp; English level, written and oral communication</li>
<li>3 to 5 years of experience in Supply Chain, Accounting, or Operations.</li>
</ul>
Posting Dates:
octubre 14, 2026 - octubre 20, 2026
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.&nbsp; Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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