Senior Maintenance Engineer

Career Area:

Engineering

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other.  We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Responsibilities 
• Overseeing building services and the installation and maintenance of production equipment and building systems. 
• Communicating with suppliers' technical support to address equipment or infrastructure disruptions. 
• Performing routine-to-complex engineering work potentially on multiple or large facilities. 
• Manages planning, execution and control of small to medium scope facilities projects. Provides products and services to clients requirements. 

Degree Requirement 
Degree or equivalent experience desired 

Skill Descriptors 
Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes. 

Level Working Knowledge:  
• Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate. 
• Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process. 
• Creates process flow or workflow diagrams. 
• Document types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision. 
• Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks. 

Service Excellence: Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner. 

Level Working Knowledge:  
• Provides a quality of service that customers describe as excellent. 
• Resolves common customer problems. 
• Responds to unexpected customer requests with a sense of urgency and positive action. 
• Provides direct service to internal or external customers. 
• Documents customer complaints in a timely manner. 

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations. 

Level Working Knowledge:  
• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives. 
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder. 
• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information. 
• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution. 
• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
Construction Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology to the construction industry; ability to apply principles, techniques, procedures and equipment for a
specific branch of engineering to the design and production of various goods and services. 

Level Basic Understanding:  
• Describes main technologies and tools used in engineering and technology. 
• Identifies key concepts, features and methods of engineering and technology in construction. 
• Identifies key issues and engineering standards re engineering and technology. 
• Cites industry examples and principles of engineering and technology.

Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives. 

Level Extensive Experience:  
• Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time. 
• Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects. 
• Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans. 
• Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients. 
• Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties. 
• Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms. 

Facilities Management: Knowledge of safety measures for physical facilities; ability to maintain, care for and develop commercial and physical facilities. 

Level Extensive Experience:  
• Evaluates placement results of staff and equipment according to space planning and requirements. 
• Coaches others on how to coordinate and maintain the flow of electricity within a physical space. 
• Monitors environmental, safety and equipment requirements and conditions. 
• Monitors and updates processes and procedures to develop and maintain security in the workplace. 
• Interacts with customers and vendor support staff to resolve complicated problems. 
• Participates in coordinating the design and construction of new or enhanced facilities. 

Emergency Management: Knowledge of emergency management tools and techniques in a manufacturing organization; ability to prepare for, mitigate, respond to and recover from an emergency. 

Level Extensive Experience:  
• Simulates and tests plant-wide emergencies, facility evacuation and shut-down procedures. 
• Plans for and deals with different types of emergencies. 
• Participates in vulnerability assessments or worksite analyses. 
• Negotiates agreements for stand-by or back-up production facilities, coordinates during emergencies. 
• Maintains emergency communication network and equipment and role of a communications center. 
• Trains others on procedures for accounting for employees after emergency evacuation. 

 
Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing environment. 

Level Extensive Experience:  
• Evaluates business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution. 
• Resolves difficult or high-impact equipment and systems problems. 
• Monitors machine performance and history; addresses excessive maintenance or repair needs. 
• Coaches others how to resolve integration or communications problems in multi-vendor environment. 
• Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach. 
• Uses advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems. 

 

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

August 17, 2026 - August 23, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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