Career Area:

Operations

Job Description:

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.

About SPM Oil & Gas

SPM Oil & Gas, a Caterpillar company, provides superior products and service solutions to make our customers more efficient and lower total cost of ownership.   Globally, we deliver engineered oilfield and drilling equipment repair and certification, mechanical and rotating equipment repairs and upgrades, rapid prototyping of spare parts, robust asset management, operation and maintenance and field engineering services. We offer a wide range of career opportunities across a variety of technical and business roles in engineering and service locations worldwide. Join our team and help build engineering solutions that change the industry.

About the role:

SPM Oil & Gas currently has an opening for a Machinist IV. The Machinist IV role is responsible for setting up and operating conventional lathes, mills, vertical and horizontal boring mills to fabricate metallic and nonmetallic parts.

What You Will Do: 

• Effectively demonstrate the core values of SPM Oil & Gas at all times  
• Follow all written policies and procedures safely without deviation or refer to supervisors for guidance. 
• Exhibit, advocate, and exemplary safety culture at all times. 
• Exhibit a high degree of integrity at all times.  
• Demonstrate consistency, accountability, reliability and solid work ethic.  
• Study blueprints, sketches, drawings, manuals, specifications, or sample parts to determine dimensions and tolerances of finished work pieces.  
• Demonstrate the ability to follow the sequence of operations and setup requirements.  
• Measure, mark, and scribe dimensions and reference points on material or work pieces as a guide for subsequent machining.  
• Select, align and secure holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, and materials on machines such as mills, lathes and grinders.  
• Calculate and set controls to regulate machining factors such as speed, feed, coolant flow, depth and angle of cut.   
• Start and observe machine operation to detect malfunctions or out-of-tolerance machining, adjusting machine controls or control media as required.   
• Verify compliance of finished workpiece to specifications   
• Set up and operate the machine on trial run to verify accuracy of machine settings.      
• Ability to identify worn tooling, installing replacement inserts, grinding wheels and carbide cutters on equipment and maintains daily PM as required.   
• Ability to identify quality-related issues.   
• Demonstrates versatility across multiple machine types.   
• Performs other duties as assigned.  

What You Will Have: 

• Journeyman Machinist ticket, Provincial Trade Certification and/or Red Seal. Qualified Machinist apprentices will also be considered.
• 3+ Years’ experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience 
• Must have basic knowledge of Critical Safety Devices and their purpose. 
• Ability to accurately complete all work-related documents. 
• Understand basic operating principles for all plant machinery. 
• Fluency in English (read, write, comprehend)                             
• Ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions and deal with problems. 
• Must have mechanical aptitude. 
• Observe safety and security procedures. 

Additional Information: 

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.   

The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus Must be able to wear steel-toed shoes, safety glasses and any other required proper protective equipment.  

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.  

Pre-Employment Requirements: Successful candidates will undergo a comprehensive background check and drug and alcohol screening.

Employee Benefit Details:

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 a salary because we value your performance.  We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and Pension). Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

Final details:

Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.  Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected applicant.

Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment based non-immigrant and immigrant visas. However, as a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of Canada which can be found through our employment website  www.Caterpillar.com/careers  

Posting Dates:

September 26, 2024 - October 9, 2024

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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