Facilities Engineer

Caterpillar•Sanford, NC

5d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Maintains accurate project, purchasing, asset, and contractor records and understands the impact of errors.
Effective Communications: Clearly communicates (oral and written) requirements, priorities, progress, risks, and decisions needed to employees, contractors, technical resources, and leaders.
Engineering in a Manufacturing Environment: Understands how facilities, infrastructure, utilities, and support services affect engineering, testing, and product-development operations.
Plant Facilities Management: Coordinates facility improvements, vendor services, and campus maintenance support to meet operational needs.
Problem Solving: Uses structured methods to investigate facility needs, evaluate alternatives, recommend solutions, and coordinate corrective actions.
Project Management: Collaborates with leaders and stakeholders to establish priorities and manage scope, schedules, costs, risks, resources, and deliverables with increasing independence.
Technical Troubleshooting: Performs initial assessments, gathers relevant information, and engages the appropriate maintenance, engineering, contractor, or technical resources.

Nice To Haves

Degree or equivalent experience in facilities, maintenance, engineering, construction, project coordination, or a related field.
Experience executing facility repairs, infrastructure improvements, or capital and expense projects in a manufacturing, industrial, testing, or product-development environment.
Experience developing scopes of work, coordinating contractors and stakeholders, and managing project schedules and costs.
Working knowledge of purchasing, work-order systems, preventive maintenance, asset management, 5S, facility reporting, Office products.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, exercise sound judgment, communicate risks, and work with increasing independence.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with SMDC leaders and stakeholders to identify, prioritize, plan, and execute facility improvements supporting safe, reliable, and efficient operations.
Manage improvements from concept and scope development through purchasing, implementation, commissioning, and closeout.
Maintain regular alignment with leadership with increasing independence as knowledge, judgment, and capability are demonstrated.
Coordinate with the campus facilities maintenance team for select facility and infrastructure repairs.
Identify, prioritize, and execute capital and expense-funded improvements in collaboration with SMDC leaders and stakeholders.
Manage scope, schedules, estimates, spending, risks, documentation, implementation, and closeout.
Develop scopes of work, evaluate proposals, coordinate contractors, and manage purchase requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, receiving, forecasts, and actual spending.
Identify facility needs, develop practical recommendations, and coordinate select repairs with the campus facilities maintenance team, contractors, engineers, or other technical resources.
Coordinate facility work around Engineering, Prove Design, testing, and Endurance activities to minimize disruption and support business priorities.
Coordinate facility-related 5S improvements and manage applicable supplies, materials, spare parts, and assets to support reliable operations.
Ensure work complies with applicable safety, environmental, security, purchasing, and contractor requirements.
Communicate project status, spending, risks, open actions, and decisions needed.