Mining Application Specialist - Early Career

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · British Columbia, BC

This role focuses on supporting and optimizing autonomous haulage systems in mining operations, acting as a technical advisor to customers and internal teams. It involves implementing and maximizing system performance, ensuring continuous improvement, and measuring/reporting on system metrics. The role requires a strong understanding of mining technology and problem-solving skills, with a focus on post-sales support and customer collaboration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be a safety leader within Command for Hauling operations within the Mine Site.
  2. Implement and maximize autonomous Haulage system performance.
  3. Work on projects to ensure continuous improvement for mining operations within MineStar®.
  4. Become a trusted advisor for the customer through close collaboration internally and externally.
  5. Support and advise autonomous haulage system Supervisors, Builders, Controllers and Pit Technicians in all aspects of Minestar® performance, including minimizing downtime.

Skills

Required

  • Knowledge of mining technology products and various application methods
  • Ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges
  • Knowledge of post-sales support
  • Ability to support maintenance of hardware products
  • Knowledge of approaches, tools, and techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems
  • Ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a complex team
  • Analytical skills that can be used to troubleshoot electronic systems to understand root cause

Nice to have

  • Degree in Mining or Mechanical Engineering

What the JD emphasized

  • autonomous Haulage system
  • MineStar® Command System performance