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Build Your Career with Caterpillar

Join Caterpillar’s Morton Distribution Center as an Industrial Electrician and put your electrical and mechanical expertise to work! You’ll troubleshoot advanced electrical systems, automated equipment, PLC-controlled machinery, and complex material-handling systems while helping keep our operation safe and running efficiently.

Starting Pay: $35.81/hour + $1.00/hour shift differential (Potential hourly pay increase with experience)
Retention Bonus: $5,000, paid in two installments at the end of each quarter
Location: Morton, Illinois
Shifts: 2nd Shift: Monday–Friday, 3:00 PM–11:00 PM | Fixed schedules | No seasonal layoffs

Why Caterpillar?

Stability: Guaranteed year-round indoor work, stable 40-hour weeks, and opportunities for overtime.

Day-One Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage beginning your first day, with medical options as low as $38/month.

Retirement: 401(k) with an immediate 75% Caterpillar match up to 6%.

Career Development: Paid upskilling and opportunities to develop skills in PLC programming, diagnostics, industrial automation, and advanced electrical systems.

Employee Experience: Join a team focused on safety, professional development, recognition, wellness, and continuous improvement.

What You’ll Do

As an Industrial Electrician, you will:

• Diagnose, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain electrical, electronic, PLC, and relay logic equipment.
• Troubleshoot automated material-handling systems, conveyor networks, VFDs, PLCs, and industrial equipment.
• Read and interpret complex electrical schematics, blueprints, and diagrams.
• Use electrical testing and digital diagnostic equipment to identify electrical and electromechanical faults.
• Perform preventative maintenance on facility power distribution systems and plant equipment.
• Support the installation and startup of new electrical equipment.
• Calibrate and maintain testing instruments.
• Follow OSHA, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), and NFPA 70E safety practices.

What We’re Looking For

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• 3+ years of commercial, industrial, military, electrical, or electronic experience or equivalent.
• 2+ years of mechanical installation/repair experience or equivalent.
• Strong electrical/electronic troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and blueprints.
• Ability to pass a 2-hour Ramsay Electrical Maintenance assessment covering electrical theory, schematics, and safety.
• Strong commitment to workplace safety.
• Ability to work around high-voltage electricity, heavy equipment, confined spaces, and elevated areas, with or without reasonable accommodations.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

Preferred: Technical degree/diploma and conduit-bending experience.

Available Shifts:

2nd Shift: Monday–Friday, 3:00 PM–11:00 PM

What You’ll Receive

• Day-One medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage
• 401(k) with 75% Caterpillar match up to 6%
• $5,000 retention bonus
• Paid vacation, personal time, and holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition assistance and career development
• Health and wellness programs
• Employee discounts and recognition programs
• Overtime opportunities
• Stable, year-round indoor work

Pre-Employment Requirements

Successful candidates must complete a standard background screening, drug screening, physical assessment, and post-offer medical clearance.

Relocation reimbursement is not offered.

Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method.  If you wish to know the status of your application, please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status. 

This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers. 

 
Caterpillar is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Caterpillar is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age or other legally protected status. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. 

Your skills can help our customers do work that matters. Join Caterpillar and build your future today.

Summary Pay Range:

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar. 

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

• 401(k) savings plans*

• Health Savings Account (HSA)*

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

• Health Lifestyle Programs*

• Employee Assistance Program*

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

• Career Development*

• Incentive bonus*

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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