Civil Engineer

Career Area:

Manufacturing

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.

Role Definition:

Plans, designs, supervises, and supports civil works and facility services for new and existing company sites, ensuring buildings, grounds, utilities, and common areas remain safe, reliable, functional, cost-effective, and compliant with applicable regulations and company standards.

Responsibilities:

• Plans and overseas civil work, building maintenance, grounds, drainage, roads, parking areas, and general facility services.
• Develops drawings, scopes of work, cost estimates, specifications, schedules, and technical documentation.
• Leads construction, renovation, repair, inspection, commissioning, and handover of facility projects.
• Assesses structural, architectural, and infrastructure issues, performs root cause analysis, and coordinates corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with construction codes, permits, environmental requirements, safety procedures, and company standards.
• Coordinates internal stakeholders, service providers, suppliers, and contractors throughout project and maintenance execution.
• Manages civil and general services projects and identifies opportunities to improve facility condition, service quality, sustainability, and cost.

Degree Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering, Architecture, or a related field.
• Advanced English.

Skills:

Collaborating:

• Partners with internal teams, service providers, suppliers, and contractors to deliver civil work and general services solutions.
• Aligns service requirements, schedules, responsibilities, access needs, and issue resolution across stakeholders.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking:

• Evaluates safety, structural condition, service continuity, cost, quality, and schedule impacts using inspections, data, standards, and risk assessments.
• Prioritizes actions by risk, facility criticality, operational impact, regulatory requirements, and business needs.

Effective Communications:

• Clearly communicates scopes, service requirements, risks, findings, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Prepares concise reports, specifications, budgets, project updates, inspection records, and handover documentation.

Plant Facilities Management:

• Supports buildings, grounds, roads, drainage, common areas, and contracted general services, assessing condition, capacity, compliance, and service performance.
• Coordinates safe inspections, preventive and corrective maintenance, minor construction, renovations, and contractor work with minimal operational disruption.

Problem Solving:

• Uses structured analysis, inspections, drawings, maintenance data, and technical assessments to identify root causes of facility and service issues.
• Implements and verify corrective actions that improve safety, facility reliability, service quality, and availability.

Process Management:

• Improves workflows for service requests, inspections, maintenance planning, contractor control, construction changes, and project handover.
• Maintains controlled records and monitors service levels, recurring failures, response times, costs, and improvement opportunities.

Project Management:

• Defining scope, budget, schedule, resources, specifications, permits, service requirements, and acceptance criteria for civil and facility projects.
• Coordinates execution and tracks risks, costs, quality, milestones, documentation, and contractor commitments while minimizing operational impact.

Technical Troubleshooting:

• Diagnoses defects in buildings, finishes, roofs, pavements, drainage, plumbing, sanitary systems, and other civil infrastructure.
• Safely isolates affected areas and documents findings, repairs, verification results, and lessons learned.

Top candidates may also possess:

• Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Facilities Management, or a related field.
• Expertise with industrial buildings, structural repairs, roofs, roads, drainage, utilities, and critical facility assets.
• Expertise managing general services contracts, preventive maintenance programs, renovations, and construction projects.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD, Revit, Civil 3D, MS Project, or similar tools.
• Lean Six Sigma, project management, workplace safety, facilities management, or sustainable building certification.

Additional Information:

• Location: Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon.
• This position is six-day a week in-office model
• Sponsorship for foreign candidates is not available.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
• Do not forget to include a resume in English in your profile in Workday​.

Final details 

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The Caterpillar Code of Conduct states that we will select, and place employees based on their qualifications for the job to be performed, without regard to race, religion, national origin, color, gender, identity, sexual orientation, age or disability. In this company we do not request pregnancy tests, nor HIV tests as requirements for employment entry, permanence or promotion.

 

Posting Dates:

agosto 28, 2026 - septiembre 4, 2026

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

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