Director of Operations

Caterpillar; Torreón; Presencial; MXN 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global manufacturing leader is seeking a Director of Operations for their Torreon facility. The ideal candidate will manage the strategic and day-to-day operations, focusing on safety, quality, and production efficiency. Strong leadership and manufacturing expertise are essential for this role. The position is on-site five days a week, with domestic relocation offered.

Servicios

Domestic relocation offered

Eligible for stock or other equity grants

Formación

• Degree or equivalent experience is desired.

Responsabilidades

• Managing staffing, development, and performance management programs.
• Overseeing operations activities, ensuring schedules and performance requirements are met.
• Maintaining relationships with business, sales, and engineering.
• Driving lean manufacturing philosophies.
• Driving a high performing safety culture.

Descripción del empleo

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.

About Us:

With 2024 sales and revenues of $64.8 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.

For 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

Caterpillar does business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation – and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.

Job Summary:

Caterpillar is currently seeking a Director of Operations for our Torreon, MX facility. This leader will have responsibility for the strategic and day-to-day manufacturing operations for one of Caterpillar’s key production sites in Latin America predominantly focused on the fabrication of steel structures for the Building Construction Products division along with a few other divisions across the enterprise. These fabrications support a product line of compact loaders, motor graders, and excavators.

This leader will be responsible for leading this 1700 employee facility with a focus on driving operational excellence, ensuring safety and quality standards, optimizing production efficiency, and fostering a high-performance culture. This role requires a visionary and growth-oriented leader with deep manufacturing expertise, strong people management skills, strong compliance knowledge and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Managing staffing, development, and performance management programs for operations staff; managing, motivating, and developing management team.
• Overseeing operations activities, ensuring that schedules and performance requirements are met and system resources are used effectively.
• Maintaining relationships with business, sales, and engineering; coordinating strategies, communications, and joint initiatives for multiple and distributed facilities.
• Monitoring overall operations performance and implementing production, cost, and quality control mechanisms.
• Driving lean manufacturing philosophies into existing production and management processes.
• Driving a high performing safety culture.

Qualifications

Degree Requirement: Degree or equivalent experience desired.

Skill Descriptors

Effectiveness Measurement:

• Knowledge of effective measurement techniques and ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of improvement.
• Monitors planned improvement efforts in quality and productivity.
• Uses recognized industry benchmarks.
• Evaluates improvement efforts in quality and productivity.
• Uses measurements to drive improvement in a number of different ways.
• Supervises others in their use of data collection, analysis, and reporting tools.
• Defines, captures and monitors metrics for multiple functions.

Managing Multiple Priorities

Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.

• Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.
• Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.
• Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.
• Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.
• Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.
• Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.

Capacity Planning & Management - MFG

Knowledge of tools, approaches and practices for determining production demand and ability to manage resources needed to provide satisfactory levels of service.

• Works with R&D (research & development) staff to plan resource and capacity requirements for products under development.
• Creates consolidated forecasts for multiple product lines and production facilities.
• Advises on multiple cycles of short- and long-term capacity planning for product or site.
• Compares and contrasts alternative approaches and tools for capacity planning.
• Develops estimates and costs for incremental capacity requirements.
• Translates demand forecasts into production and capacity requirements.

Manufacturing Operations

Knowledge of manufacturing operations; ability to perform day-to-day operations of a manufacturing plant or facility for products.

• Builds a monitoring system to track manufacturing operation activities.
• Sets and oversees all operational routines for departments and staff.
• Oversees proper safety and security procedures to ensure accreditation approval.
• Designs strategies to minimize machinery problems and safety risks within the organization.
• Develops plans for movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units.
• Leads discussions on the history and evolution of manufacturing plants and associated services and functions.

Manufacturing Safety

Knowledge of manufacturing safety; ability to identify work-related hazards and perform necessary activities to meet regulatory requirements for the safety and protection of workers, environment and site.

• Consults on the use of new tools and techniques for safety protection.
• Performs safety inspections to assure compliance with OSHA requirements.
• Designs and implements emergency response processes and procedures.
• Promotes workplace safety among supervisors and workers; communicates safety rules and regulations.
• Assesses and reports unusual or new safety hazards or violations; initiates corrective action.
• Ensures that all employees and contractors comply with relevant safety policies and regulations.

Plant Operation and Maintenance

Knowledge of plant operation principles, methods and processes; ability to handle day-to-day and strategic issues, operational requirements and management of a manufacturing facility.

• Participates in the evaluation and selection of plant operations and maintenance systems.
• Participates in planning for automating operations and retooling of an assembly line.
• Consults on operations routing and back-up capabilities.
• Analyzes plant floor operations; evaluates trends and implements corrective actions as necessary.
• Works with complex issues in all major production runs and their criticalities for the manufacturing organization.
• Advises others on key aspects of effective and efficient operation and workload optimization.

Production Systems Operation

Knowledge of a full spectrum of production system operation activities and tools; ability to utilize various techniques to operate equipment and systems involved in the production of deliverables.

• Works with advanced features and functions of a complex production system.
• Evaluates problems in production systems and determines necessary solutions/improvements.
• Advises others on key aspects of effective and efficient operation of a plant.
• Participates in implementing equipment and system changes that impact production.
• Monitors various production systems; ensures they function within standard policies and procedures.
• Participates in resolving complex system problems; consults on manual overrides.

Additional Details

• The role is based out of the Torreon, MX facility and will be on-site five days a week.

• Domestic relocation is offered for this role.

• Sponsorship is not provided for this role.

• This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to Caterpillar’s long-term incentive plan.

Posting Dates

October 9, 2025 - October 17, 2025

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

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