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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.

"Updated: 09/29/2025

Role Definition

Supervises maintenance activities for facilities and infrastructures in a hardware manufacturing plant or site.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with engineers, partners and suppliers to meet business goals in accordance with the sustainable use of facilities and budget demands.

• Constructs an efficient facility maintenance team and guides training sessions to ensure quality performance.

• Evaluates the operation's effectiveness with current utilities and equipment; provides appropriate solutions to challenges and risks.

• Oversees inspections, repairs and updates of facilities and relevant operational activities; maintains order at the facility.

Degree Requirement

Electrical & Electronics B.E. | B. TECH

Experience Required:

18 to 22 Years of experience in Automobile Sector

Skill Descriptors

Cross-Team Integration: Good Automation Knowledge, Understanding of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Maintains a strong internal network that promotes informal collaboration.

• Shares information that may be relevant to other teams across divisions.

• Assesses the potential synergies from combining common practices across teams.

• Identifies differences among teams that could cause barriers to effective integration.

• Applies relevant information gathered from comparable teams to own team.

Data Gathering & Analysis: Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes; ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion, goal, or judgment.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Participates in gathering and analyzing an organization's data based on requirements.

• Follows proper data gathering and analysis processes and policies.

• Utilizes basic data collection and evaluation tools and techniques.

• Reports problems that arise in the data collection process.

• Documents data from various sources and in various formats.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.

• Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.

• Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.

• Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.

• Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Manufacturing Application Systems: Knowledge of company and industry databases and applications used in a manufacturing environment; ability to operate, maintain and update these systems.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Uses and maintains information or data stored in specific application; reports unusual situations.

• Documents the major interfaces and dependencies to and from other systems.

• Follows procedures for the maintenance and upkeep of the databases.

• Uses all basic features of the information system in context of own work.

• Works with a specific type of manufacturing application or information system.

Manufacturing Equipment: Knowledge of the electrical, mechanical and logistics equipment used in manufacturing; ability to safely operate, maintain, update and store them.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Performs routine maintenance: cleaning, replacing defective or worn parts.

• Performs basic care and safety considerations for a specific type of manufacturing equipment.

• Participates in setting up new machines and testing according to manufacturer's specifications.

• Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques; resolves common problems.

• Conducts routine inspections; checks machine performance and equipment safeguards; reports standards violations.

Plant Facilities Management: Knowledge of processes, methodologies and techniques used to manage plant facilities; ability to handle the full spectrum of activities for managing and maintaining physical facilities and infrastructure.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Performs the installation and maintenance of such items as plant's electric, air conditioning, telephone and cabling infrastructure.

• Interprets facilities-related reports and explains record-keeping requirements.

• Works with addressing basic physical requirements of a manufacturing plant.

• Assesses potential security or safety risks and notifies appropriate team members.

• Follows access and security control procedures and equipment.

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.

Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks.

• Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers.

• Resolves routine supplier issues; escalates non-routine issues up chain of command.

• Researches alternative vendors or suppliers; participates in supplier selection.

• Works with suppliers to ensure that purchases meet delivery date and quality specifications.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act."

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