Maintenance Technician II - 1st Shift

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · San Antonio, TX

Maintenance Technician II role focused on ensuring the reliability and efficiency of advanced production systems at Caterpillar's Industrial Power Systems Division. Responsibilities include diagnosing, troubleshooting, and repairing complex mechanical and electrical equipment, performing preventive maintenance, and supporting continuous improvement projects. The role requires intermediate knowledge of industrial electricity, mechanics, and automated equipment, with a focus on maintaining production systems in a manufacturing environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance on production, material-handling and high-tech automated equipment in the facility’s buildings, in accordance with work orders and technical documentation
  2. Respond to operational calls for troubleshooting/diagnosing problems with assembly systems and equipment
  3. Operate, troubleshoot, and repair electrical and mechanical assembly (i.e., fork trucks, conveyors, and robotic equipment)
  4. Exercise knowledge of industrial electricity, including single-phase and three-phase power, motors, protective devices, and photo sensors
  5. Respond to service requests with little or no supervision and without interrupting production operations

Skills

Required

  • 3 years of work experience in maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing industrial/electrical production equipment in a manufacturing or operations environment or possess a relevant certification or degree in lieu of experience
  • Intermediate experience using hand tools, power tools, and basic maintenance tasks like lubrication, cleaning, and inspections
  • Intermediate mechanical knowledge of basic machines (pulleys, levers, etc.), pneumatics, hydraulics, gears, reducers, bearings, lubrication theory, drive components (sheaves, sprockets, chain belts, take-ups), and equipment alignment.
  • Familiar with electronics such as photo sensors, PLCs, remote I/Os, servo drives, and variable frequency drives

Nice to have

  • Experience working in a team environment and willingness to train/mentor less experienced technicians
  • Intermediate knowledge with AC/DC theory, relays, switches, solenoids, fuses, breakers, power generation and distribution (including 480V 3-phase), electrical safety, lockout/tagout procedures, National Electric Code, digital multimeter operation, and motor theory and protection
  • Intermediate knowledge with mechanical knowledge of basic machines (pulleys, levers, etc.), pneumatics, hydraulics, gears, reducers, bearings, lubrication theory, drive components (sheaves, sprockets, chain belts, take-ups), and equipment alignment.
  • Intermediate knowledge with PM procedures, including performing PMs, logging completion, etc.
  • Intermediate knowledge with production facility’s systems, including conveyors, robotic equipment, and (ASRS, AKL, and Auto Guided Vehicles (AGVs))
  • Intermediate knowledge with reading and understand mechanical and building blueprints as well as electrical schematics