Career Area:Manufacturing
Job Description:Guide, develop, and evaluate electrical trainees while overseeing day-to-day activities. The role ensures that trainees gain technical competence, safety awareness, and professional habits required to become fully qualified electrical maintenance technicians.
Responsibilities: - Creating work plans for staff and contractors; reviewing the maintenance work performed by technicians. Coordinate daily maintenance schedules, allocate tasks appropriate to trainee skill levels, and ensure efficient workflow.
- Enforce safety protocols, conduct toolbox talks, and ensure trainees understand and follow all regulatory and site-specific safety requirements.
- Assign, supervise, and review electrical maintenance tasks performed by trainees, ensuring work meets operational and safety standards through technical oversight.
- Coaching and mentoring teams to encourage, motivate, and guide individuals in learning and improving effectiveness. Maintain accurate records of trainee hours, completed tasks, competency milestones, and maintenance logs.
- Monitor trainee progress, document competencies, provide constructive feedback, and recommend advancement or additional training. Deliver structured on the job training, coach trainees through troubleshooting, and provide progressive skill building opportunities.
- Work closely with senior technicians, engineering teams, and operations to align trainee activities with plant needs.
Degree Requirement: Degree or equivalent experience desired
Skills you must have:Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Basic understanding of the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
- Accountability - Modeling high standards for trainees.
- Adaptability - Foundries are unpredictable; supervisors must adjust quickly.
- Attention to Detail - Critical in environments where small errors can cause major failures.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Working Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Performance Management: Basic knowledge of successful performance management techniques; ability to apply organization's performance management system, practices, and tools to develop and improve individual, team, and organizational performance.
- Coaching & Mentoring - Ability to teach hands-on skills patiently and effectively.
- Competency Assessment - Tracking trainee progress and identifying skill gaps.
- Communication Skills - Clear instructions in noisy, fast-paced environments.
- Conflict Resolution - Managing stress, disagreements, or performance issues.
Problem Solving: Working 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.
- Root Cause Analysis - Teaching trainees how to diagnose not just symptoms but underlying causes.
- Lean Maintenance Concepts - Reducing downtime and waste in a heavy-industry environment.
- Reliability-Centered Thinking - Building long-term equipment health into trainee habits.
Electrical Maintenance & Equipment Expertise: Knowledge of industrial systems and foundry equipment, with ability to perform troubleshooting and apply preventive and predictive maintenance to maximize reliability and performance.
- Electrical Systems Knowledge - Strong understanding of PLCs (Allen-Bradley, Modicon, Siemens), robotics systems, industrial networks, VFDs, servo drives, power supplies, and pilot devices.
- Foundry Equipment Familiarity - Working knowledge of molding machines, shakeout systems, furnaces, casting lines, cooling systems, and dust collection systems.
- Preventive & Predictive Maintenance - Ability to teach and enforce PM tasks, including enclosure cleaning, electrical connection torque checks, insulation testing, breaker testing, and condition monitoring.
- Troubleshooting Skills - Rapid diagnosis of electrical failures under production pressure.
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM): Basic knowledge of total productive maintenance principles, methods, and processes; ability to maximize machinery effectiveness through active involvement of all supporting departments.
- TPM Implementation - Ability to lead and teach TPM principles such as autonomous maintenance, equipment ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Autonomous Maintenance Coaching - Guiding trainees to perform basic inspections, cleaning, lubrication, and early detection of abnormalities.
- OEE Awareness - Understanding how equipment availability, performance, and quality ties into foundry productivity.
- Kaizen & Small-Group Activities - Facilitating trainee involvement in improvement projects that reduce downtime and defects.
- Standardization - Developing and enforcing standard work for routine electrical tasks and TPM checklists.
Top Candidates Will Have: - Previous experience in maintenance and leadership
- Foundry Experience
- Electrical background / or Electrical Engineering Degree
Additional Information: - This position is in Mapleton, IL
- Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
- A closer look into the Mapleton Facility https://youtu.be/0kKlppm_nfc
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Summary Pay Range:$89,210.00 - $133,810.00
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.
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