Mining Technical Support Engineer

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Christchurch, New Zealand

This role focuses on enabling software and system issue resolution within the mining industry. Responsibilities include conducting risk assessments, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and quality assurance. The candidate will work with engineering on corrective action approaches and communicate customer feedback to development teams. Key skills include industry and application knowledge, troubleshooting, software product testing, customer focus, communication, systems thinking, and technical troubleshooting.

What you'd actually do

  1. Conducting risk assessments, root cause analysis, corrective actions, quality assurance processes and issue resolution.
  2. Working with engineering to develop and implement Interim Corrective Action (ICA) and Permanent Corrective Action (PCA) approaches to issues.
  3. Communicating about customer feedback to development teams in order to improve deliverables and meet business requirements.

Skills

Required

  • Knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, and major issues; ability to apply industry knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
  • Deep knowledge of the Terrain for Grading and Loading solution, with an understanding of mining operational workflows, constraints, and challenges.
  • Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving software technical, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
  • Knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements.
  • Customer Focus (Level: Extensive Experience)
  • Effective Communications (Level: Extensive Experience)
  • Systems Thinking (Level: Extensive Experience)
  • Technical Troubleshooting (Level: Extensive Experience)
  • Software Product Business Knowledge (Level: Extensive Experience)
  • Software Product Technical Knowledge (Level: Extensive Experience)

What the JD emphasized

  • software and system issue resolution
  • risk assessments
  • root cause analysis
  • corrective actions
  • quality assurance processes
  • issue resolution
  • Interim Corrective Action (ICA)
  • Permanent Corrective Action (PCA)
  • customer feedback
  • development teams
  • deliverables
  • business requirements
  • Industry Knowledge
  • Application Knowledge
  • Terrain for Grading and Loading solution
  • mining operational workflows
  • constraints
  • challenges
  • Troubleshooting and Problem Solving
  • software technical
  • operational or process problems
  • Software Product Testing
  • testing strategies and tactics
  • software product quality
  • stated requirements
  • Customer Focus
  • Effective Communications
  • Systems Thinking
  • Technical Troubleshooting
  • business impact of failure
  • criticality and timing of needed resolution
  • trouble reports
  • solutions for completeness and correctness
  • communications problems in multi-vendor environments
  • hardware, software, and communications malfunctions
  • advanced diagnostic techniques and tools
  • distribution of releases reports and correction packages
  • Software Product Business Knowledge
  • product functional requirements
  • customer use and experiences
  • advanced business features and functions
  • unusual or non-traditional uses
  • Software Product Technical Knowledge
  • technical and infrastructure components
  • customer platforms and experiences
  • product configuration requirements and instances
  • technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques
  • hardware, software, application or operation
  • alternative product configurations, platforms, and implementation options