Facilities Engineer

**Career Area**:
Manufacturing

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**Role Definition**
Responsible for ensuring the proper functioning and improving the performance of M&E and troubleshoot issues. Their main tasks will include routine maintenance and repairs aimed at keeping our equipment and machinery in the best possible condition. Their specialized skills and meticulous approach will be essential to minimize downtime, increase productivity, and maintain personnel safety.

**Responsibilities**
- Perform regular inspections and preventive maintenance of equipment and machinery to identify potential issues and address them proactively.
- Carry out repairs and troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic systems, gas systems, high-pressure oil systems, and high-precision equipment to quickly resolve breakdowns and malfunctions.
- Develop and implement preventive maintenance programs and procedures to maximize equipment reliability and minimize unplanned downtime.
- Collaborate with the production team to plan maintenance activities, ensuring mínimal disruption to operations.
- Maintain accurate documentation of maintenance activities, including work orders, repair records, and equipment history logs.
- Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, and new technologies in plant maintenance to improve efficiency and optimize equipment performance.
- Coordinate with external service providers and contractors for specialized repair or maintenance tasks.Ensure compliance with safety standards and regulations during maintenance activities, including lockout/tagout procedures and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).

**Degree Requirement**
Electric, Mechanic or Mechatronic engineering degree.

Intermediate experience in maintenance.

**Skill Descriptors**
Effective Communications:

- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
- English level: Intermediate

Problem Solving:

- 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.

Plant Facilities Management:

- 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.
- Follows access and security control procedures and equipment.
- Assesses potential security or safety risks and notifies appropriate team members.

Troubleshooting Technical Problems:

- Documents common hardware, software and communications problems and likely resolutions.
- Troubleshoots typical technical problems in a specific area.
- Adheres to standard troubleshooting procedures to ensure effectiveness of resolutions.
- Participates in setting evaluation standards and criterion for troubleshooting.

Interpretation of electrical, pneumatic, or hydraulic diagrams.

Interpretation of mechanical drawings.

Knowledge of PLC programming (Allen Bradley, Siemens, etc).

Robot programming (Fanuc, ABB)

Experience in machining control center (Okuma, mazak, G&Ls, Doosan)

**Final details**

**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, 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**:
noviembre 19, 2024 - noviembre 26, 2024
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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