Fleet Maintenance Technician

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Edwards, IL

This role is for a Fleet Maintenance Technician at Caterpillar, focusing on supporting and repairing heavy equipment. While the company mentions leveraging AI capabilities, this specific role is a traditional mechanic position involving machine repair, parts ordering, and customer service, not direct AI/ML development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Addressing fleet maintenance issues and resolving repairs to machines. Ensuring all customer communication is clearly documented.
  2. Answering inbound customer service inquiries. Providing health analysis or troubleshooting and redirecting them when appropriate.
  3. Identifying issues and determining appropriate course of action for effective resolution.
  4. Working with the product groups to ensure all technical software and hardware are up to date and installed on equipment
  5. Understand prime product or component health or status, if action is needed, and required next steps.

Skills

Required

  • Customer Focus
  • Data Gathering & Analysis
  • Service Excellence
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking
  • Problem Solving
  • Relationship Management
  • Experience working with and supporting Heavy Equipment Fleet Management Repairs

Nice to have

  • Experience working with Autonomous Machines
  • Experience working with Diesel Machines
  • Experience not only with Machines, but the Software, Hardware and the Technology that goes inside the Machines.
  • GPS and Trimble experience
  • Ability to order parts and supplies and working with the customers

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience working with and supporting Heavy Equipment Fleet Management Repairs. This is Required for this position