**Career Area:** Supply Chain and Logistics **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. **Role Definition** Manages agreed-upon inventory levels to provide a flow of raw materials and components from the supply chain to the manufacturing facility. **Responsibilities** • Managing the environment of the inventory stock room is in line with requirements for each product. • Managing staffing, development, and performance management of materials management workers. Ensuring proper labor relations. • Defining and maintaining optimal inventory levels. Performing inventory analysis and making recommendations for stock levels. • Coordinating maintenance and support of inventory management software. **Degree Requirement** Degree or equivalent experience desired **Skill Descriptors** **Data Gathering & Analysis:** Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes; ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion, goal, or judgment. **Level Working Knowledge:** • Participates in gathering and analyzing an organization's data based on requirements. • Follows proper data gathering and analysis processes and policies. • Utilizes basic data collection and evaluation tools and techniques. • Reports problems that arise in the data collection process. • Documents data from various sources and in various formats. **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 Working Knowledge:** • Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process. • Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas. • Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes. • Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns. • Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives. **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. **Level Working Knowledge:** • Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient. • Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness. • Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work. • Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate. • Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups. **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:** • Follows processes to take stock, release inventory or return into processing; resolves discrepancies. • Tracks inventory information for a specific product group or location. • Works with basic tasks of inventory management for a specific location. • Produces basic inventory management reports for senior staff to reconcile the inventory balances. • Performs the receiving, ticketing, checking in and distributing of inventory items for a specific location. **Performance Management:** Knowledge of successful performance management techniques; ability to apply organization's performance management system, practices, and tools to developing and improving individual, team, and organizational performance. **Level Working Knowledge:** • Identifies opportunities to enhance performance, e.g., practice assignments, training, shadowing. • Ensures performance goals, checkpoints, and feedback focus on behaviors. • Provides documented input to formal performance review conducted by manager. • Observes individual performance and provides fair and objective feedback. • Uses formal and informal rewards and recognition programs for employees. **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 Working Knowledge:** • Raises awareness of potential bottlenecks and disruptions to the schedule. • Breaks tasks into manageable steps that can be incorporated into a personal work plan. • Escalates concerns over competing or conflicting priorities. • Monitors progress continuously and adjusts tactics for handling situations on a case by case basis. • Creates action plans that ensure the accomplishment of responsibilities. **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:** • Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives. • Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder. • Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information. • Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution. • Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems. **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:** • Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions. • Recognizes software systems or components used to manage supply chain. • Summarizes supply chain considerations for different types of products or components. • Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities. • Works with a specific part of supply chain management process. **This job requires 5-days onsite working.** This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act." **Posting Dates:** Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .