Production Scheduling Manager – Sanford Advanced Manufacturing

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. Caterpillar is developing a new advanced manufacturing campus in Sanford, North Carolina, to expand production capacity for compact track loaders and telehandlers. The modern, technology-enabled operation is expected to incorporate automation, robotics, digital production systems and integrated logistics capabilities to enhance safety, quality and operational performance. Employees will help build the products our customers rely on while developing skills in advanced manufacturing and supporting the continued growth of Caterpillar’s Cat Compact℠ business. Job Summary In this role, you will lead the planning processes that translate customer demand into executable production schedules. You will oversee production scheduling across both Compact Track Loader (CTL) and Telehandler product lines for the new advanced manufacturing site in Sanford, NC, while balancing capacity, inventory, quality, equipment availability, and customer commitments. This role partners closely with manufacturing operations, supply chain, logistics, quality, procurement, engineering, and sales and operations planning teams. You will guide scheduling decisions, resolve constraints, and improve processes that support reliable production flow and operational excellence. What You Will Do Lead the development, coordination, execution, and control of complex production schedules across assigned product lines, manufacturing areas, or facilities. Translate customer demand, capacity, inventory, labor availability, equipment constraints, material availability, and quality requirements into practical production plans. Oversee Sanford fabrications production calendars and monitor inventory levels to support main assembly line production. Analyze and troubleshoot planned production scheduling problems, bottlenecks, and capacity conflicts; recommend process improvements to optimize the team efficiency and scheduling process. Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, procurement, quality, engineering, and other teams to incorporate customer and business requirements into production plans. Provide supply commitments and capacity-based recommendations to support the Sales and Operations Planning process. Monitor schedule performance, production flow, inventory position, capacity utilization, and delivery risks; communicate changes and recovery plans to affected stakeholders. Improve scheduling processes using workflow analysis, cycle-time evaluation, standardized work, root-cause problem solving, and continuous improvement methods. Align schedule and capacity plans to JIT inventory strategies as appropriate What You Will Have Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision. Cross-Team Integration: Understanding of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team. 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. Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational o…

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