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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.

About Caterpillar Oil & Gas and Marine Division (COGMD)

Caterpillar’s Oil and Gas Division, provides superior products and service solutions to make our customers more efficient and lower total cost of ownership. Globally, we deliver engineered oilfield and drilling equipment repair and certification, mechanical and rotating equipment repairs and upgrades, rapid prototyping of spare parts, robust asset management, operation and maintenance and field engineering services. We offer a wide range of career opportunities across a variety of technical and business roles in engineering and service locations worldwide. Join our team and help build engineering solutions that change the industry.

About the role:

A **Distribution Inventory Supervisor** leads to ensure the accomplishment of distribution center goals, including those related to budget and cost structure.

Additional Information:

+ Relocation is not available for this position.

+ Sponsorship is not available for this position.

+ This position requires working onsite five days a week.

+ Travel up to 30% is required.

What you will do:

• Making workflow decisions, improving service levels and costs for distribution center operations.

• Supervising and motivating distribution center employees through effective coaching and training, clear communication of job expectations, and positive reinforcement of exemplary performance; maintaining a positive distribution center working environment.

• Developing and implementing productivity, quality, and service standards. Resolving problems and identifying areas for improvements. Contributing performance data to strategic plans and reviews.

• Ensuring all equipment receives preventative maintenance and repairs, as necessary.

• Developing and ensuring execution for requirements and procedures for safety regulations.

Additional Requirements:

Associate's degree and/or 3-5 years of relevant experience

What you will have:

**Operational Functions:** Knowledge of major functional processes and associated operating requirements; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Facilitates interrelationships between major functions and sub-functions.

• Designs awareness programs for multi- and cross-functional issues of the regulatory environment.

• Works to resolve obstacles to goals of several organizational functions.

• Advises others to carry out responsibilities based on understanding of key organizational functions.

• Evaluates relevant industry practices from an operations perspective and works accordingly.

• Recommends efficiencies in operational functions wherever possible.

**Coaching Others:** Knowledge of coaching and mentoring concepts and methods; ability to encourage, motivate, and guide individuals in learning and improving effectiveness.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Coaches one or several individuals or teams on a specific competency or subject area.

• Contributes to the establishment of good coaching practices.

• Monitors individual or team progress through feedback sessions.

• Discusses alternative techniques for diagnosing and coaching individuals and teams.

• Successfully coaches both superstars and problem performers.

• Analyzes patterns and identifies key areas for improvement of processes or results.

**Leadership:** Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Translates vision into specific functional or departmental initiatives.

• Uses a normative decision model (with leadership styles and situational variables) to select style.

• Promotes efficacy through monitoring, coaching & motivating subordinates, intervention, etc.

• Uses emotional contagion to affect the mood of group members, tone of group and group processes.

• Initiates structure: role clarification, setting standards, holding subordinates accountable, etc.

• Employs various group decision-making methods depending on the situation.

**Problem Management Process - MFG:** Knowledge of manufacturing problem management processes, methodologies and techniques; ability to use a disciplined approach to bringing that problem to a successful resolution.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Evaluates alternative approaches to resolving a customer problem.

• Receives, clarifies, and resolves a variety of standard and atypical problems.

• Implements the processes and activities for handling unusual problems.

• Advises others on the process and associated costs for different types of problems.

• Monitors and improves problem reporting, tracking, escalation, and resolution.

• Participates in trend and root cause analysis to identify and address recurring problems.

**Distribution Center Management:** Knowledge of distribution processes, issues and considerations; ability to effectively manage the receipt, storage, and distribution of inventory to stores and/or customers.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Works with Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) basic processes and operations.

• Maintains item and inventory management records.

• Helps minimize bottlenecks and delays and the resulting impact on operating costs.

• Uses real-time inventory software, with guidance, to move supplies where needed, when needed.

• Assists in resolving issues related to physical space management.

Summary Pay Range:

$87,480.00 - $131,280.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

+ Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

+ Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

+ 401(k) savings plans*

+ Health Savings Account (HSA)*

+ Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

+ Health Lifestyle Programs*

+ Employee Assistance Program*

+ Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

+ Career Development*

+ Incentive bonus*

+ Disability benefits

+ Life Insurance

+ Parental leave

+ Adoption benefits

+ Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.

Posting Dates:

October 21, 2025 - October 27, 2025

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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