What to Expect in This Role: As an Assembly Technician (Assembly Mechanic), assembling our world class heavy equipment, you can expect to safely assemble a quality product with a name known across the world. Put your mechanical aptitude and personal and/or professional experiences to work. Begin your career at CAT safely utilizing torque and pneumatic tooling, working around hydraulic lines, following standard blueprints to build a fleet of critical infrastructure machines.

Be a part of the amazing things happening at Caterpillar Brooklyn Park!

What We Offer:

• 13 Days' Vacation first year (accrued)

• Paid winter holiday plant closure

• 10 paid holidays

• Benefits Day 1 - Total Rewards: Health, Dental, 401K w/ match, HSA/FSA, RX, additional wellness

• Bonus: Quarterly Gain Sharing performance bonus up to 10%

• Career development pathway opportunities across Caterpillar

• Cafeteria with weekly menu and 24 hour deli

• Employee engagement events

Required Qualification for Consideration:

• Demonstrated and documented mechanical knowledge or experience; personal or professional

• Relevant experiences must be described in complete application

Top Candidate s Will Have:

• Ability to read blueprints

• Experience using mechanical tools including torque tools

• Heavy assembly experience

• Hydraulic systems experience

• Heavy crane equipment experience

• Ability to read standard work, prints, and write continuous improvement cards

• Ability to utilize computer for production transactions

• Ability to work with metric units, hydraulics and electrical components

Additional Information:

Shift: First Shift

Hours: 6:00AM-2:00 PM CST Monday- Friday, 8 Hour Days

Work Location: Brooklyn Park, MN

Compensation: $25.00+

Shift differentials when applicable. Quarterly Gain Sharing up to 10%.

Day to Day:

Responsible for putting safety first with a goal to prevent all injuries, occupational illnesses and safety incidents. Assemble heavy machine products according to Engineering/Manufacturing prints and documentation utilizing assembly/mechanical tools, torque tools, metric units, hydraulics and electrical components within allotted process time. Electronically and manually maintain documentation for production. Take initiative to identify, document, communicate and correct problems related to assembly, report discrepancies and recommend solutions Support team People, Quality, Velocity and Cost (PQVC) initiatives and daily activities. Work with limited supervision.

Work Environment Details:

Operate overhead cranes, jib cranes and hoists Lift up to 35 lbs frequently Work at multiple heights Climb on equipment, machines, ladders and various step stools Stand for a minimum of 8 hour shifts with minimal breaks Work in environment with frequently changing temperatures Exposure to magnets that may impact medical devices Kneel, squat, and crawl on knees Work in awkward positions, including forward reach, lateral reach, squat, overhead reaching, twisting, and forward head and rotation of neck. Work in tight spaces Repetitive grasping, pushing, pulling, rotating Use of fine motor skills Use of hand tools including wrenches, air tools, drills, cutters, tie wrap guns, pneumatic, vibratory, etc. Includes ability to pull manual torque tools to torque requirements (at least 250 Newton meters or 185 foot pounds) Required Personal Protective Equipment: hearing protection, safety glasses, steel toed/metatarsal foot gear, and as needed dust masks.

Benefits: Day 1 Eligibility

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

Here you earn more than just an hourly wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of a monthly bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date). Day one eligibility- must complete benefits information during orientation.

Applications must be complete to be considered. Please include an attached resume or job history entries.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

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 .

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