Career Area:
Product Support
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 Installs, maintains, and troubleshoots equipment at the customer's location using a set of tools, parts and technical diagrams.
Customer service assignment include on-site preventive maintenance and inspection service work, call- out services and commissioning activities on turbomachinery and package systems.
Responsibilities
- Effective use of test equipment to diagnose and identify malfunctions. Refer to schematics and manufacturers' specifications to resolve problems. Mentor field service representatives. Provide technical coaching to peers.
- Use hand tools, gauges and instruments to analyze, repair or replace faulty parts. Utilize digital tools and systems.
- Check for common causes of trouble, such as dirty or defective components, clean and lubricate equipment as needed.
- Perform routine installations and make adjustments to equipment as appropriate within normal procedures.
Degree Requirement Degree or equivalent experience desired
Skill Descriptors
**Service Excellence: **Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Provides a quality of service that customers describe as excellent.
- Resolves common customer problems.
- Responds to unexpected customer requests with a sense of urgency and positive action.
- Provides direct service to internal or external customers.
- Documents customer complaints in a timely manner.
**Initiative: **Being proactive and committing to action on self-identified job responsibilities and challenges; ability to seek out work and the drive to accomplish goals.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Identifies and exploits own strengths; minimizes limitations.
- Provides appropriate degrees of attention to both personal and professional priorities.
- Explains how own motivation relates to the workplace.
- Utilizes available tools or approaches for increasing knowledge of self-motivation.
- Learns and uses resources the organization has to assess and enhance team motivation.
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 Extensive Experience:
- Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
- Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
- Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
- Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
- Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
- Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
Mechanical Maintenance - Power Supply: Knowledge of machines used in power plant; ability to conduct preventive maintenance and repairs or replacements on faulty mechanical parts used in power plants.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Develops a system to measure the effectiveness of mechanical maintenance.
- Monitors the operation of mechanical maintenance procedures.
- Reviews power supply equipment malfunction logs to identify potential problems.
- Provides technical solutions for complex mechanical problems related to power supply equipment.
- Creates preventive maintenance schedules for all mechanical equipment and structures.
- Consults on maintenance cycle optimization, emergency situations and complicated repairs.
Mechanical Maintenance (Oil and Gas): Knowledge of mechanical equipment and the preventive maintenance; ability to repair or replace faulty mechanical parts used in the exploration, production or refining of hydrocarbons.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Explains common mechanical problems and associated solutions and preventive measures.
- Repairs or replaces mechanical components based on diagnostic results.
- Works with equipment providers or vendors to resolve mechanical problems and prevent their recurrence.
- Works with installation and maintenance of specific mechanical components and equipment.
- Describes procedures for the repair, replacement, and refurbishing of mechanical equipment and systems.
Safety (Oil and Gas): Knowledge of procedures, practices, considerations and regulatory requirements for the safety and protection of workers, community, environment and company assets; ability to identify and respond accordingly to work-related hazards.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Promotes workplace safety among supervisors and workers; communicates safety rules and regulations.
- Performs safety inspections to assure compliance with company, local and federal regulations.
- Discusses managers' and workers' responsibilities in ensuring compliance with OSHA requirements.
- Assesses and reports unusual or new safety hazards or violations; initiates corrective action.
- Determines appropriate action to take when unsafe conditions are encountered.
- Ensures that all employees and contractors comply with relevant safety policies and regulations.
- Programmable Logic Controller (PLC): Knowledge of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC); ability to design, implement, and operate automated process controls.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Adheres to related standards and procedures to implement and maintain PLC.
- Assists in developing a control system via PLC to the required operating parameters.
- Helps debug malfunctions and failures in PLC logic.
- Performs all basic operations and performance check of PLC.
- Uses appropriate languages, software, and programming techniques to model, develop, and deploy control functions.
**Troubleshooting Technical Problems: **Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing environment.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Documents common hardware, software and communications problems and likely resolutions.
- Troubleshoots typical technical problems in a specific area.
- Works with vendor-specific diagnostic guides, tools and utilities to discover application problems.
- Adheres to standard troubleshooting procedures to ensure effectiveness of resolutions.
- Participates in setting evaluation standards and criterion for troubleshooting.
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.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:
April 29, 2026 - June 6, 2026
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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