Production Support Specialist 1 - Endurance Operator - 1st Shift

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Sanford, NC

This role involves operating heavy equipment to validate machine components and software, reporting issues, logging activities, and performing minor repairs and servicing. It requires experience operating construction machinery and a basic understanding of mechanical systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Safely operate heavy equipment at a productive level to help the Engineering community validate machine components and/or software
  2. Report issues encountered during the operation of Caterpillar Building Construction Products equipment including Skid Steer Loaders (SSL) and Compact Track Loaders (CTL)
  3. Log machine activities related to physical designs or machine performance
  4. Wash and inspect machines at least weekly looking for structural cracks, checking bolted joints to ensure they are intact, and looking for hose and harness rubs
  5. Make small repairs and service machines. Typical expectations are to check tension and adjust tracks, check air pressure and inflate tires, change grease fittings, change engine air filters, troubleshoot leaks and tighten hoses, and sign service items and other parts out of inventory

Skills

Required

  • Prior experience operating construction machinery
  • Basic understanding of construction machinery
  • Candidate must take safety very seriously and respect the power of the machine
  • He/she must be willing to be instructed and/or corrected to address potential safety concerns while maintaining a positive attitude
  • Good communication skills; both oral and written
  • Initiative and maturity to work independently
  • Basic understanding of mechanical systems

Nice to have

  • Experience assembly or repairing SSL or CTL machines

What the JD emphasized

  • Candidate must take safety very seriously and respect the power of the machine
  • He/she must be willing to be instructed and/or corrected to address potential safety concerns while maintaining a positive attitude