Weekend Lathe Specialist (3rd Shift) Details

Caterpillar - Pontiac, IL

Employment Type : Full-Time

Career Area: Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Job Description:

Caterpillar Pontiac will be hosting Talent Tuesday open interview hiring events every first Tuesday of the month beginning Feb 1, 2022 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at 1300 4H Park Road, Pontiac, IL!

Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.

The Caterpillar Pontiac facility is adding jobs and growing! Through Caterpillar’s recent facility consolidation efforts, Caterpillar Pontiac need to hire more employees due to the additional work being brought into the facility.

As a Lathe Specialist at Caterpillar, Inc., you will operate, set up and adjust automatic lathes to perform various combinations of machining operations on miscellaneous parts. * Executing machining operations on N/C lathes to perform complex combinations of machine of machining operations or limited combination of machining operations close to tolerance.

Shift: 3rd Shift Weekends

Hours: Thursday 7pm- 11pm and Friday-Sunday 7pm -7am

Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

  • Manually operate vertical turret lathes
  • Adjusts single spindle automatic cutoff machines to perform cutoff and/or chamfer operations on barstock, tubing, etc.
  • Applying safe working methods

Required Qualifications

  • Previous machine shop experience
  • Good communication skills and strong commitment to safety and teamwork

Desired Qualifications

  • Previous CNC experience
  • Awareness of Sort, Set, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain (5S) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

Additional Information

  • Starting pay is $23.02+ $0.60 shift differential
  • This is full-time position offering benefits including health insurance, paid time off, paid holidays, 401K, etc.
  • Training required on traditional day shift (Monday-Friday) for up to 3 months

Relocation assistance is not offered for this position

Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, 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.com

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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Posted on : 2 years ago