Iron Technician I

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Job Description:

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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.

Job summary:

The Iron Technician I provides assembly and testing of various mechanical components.

Pay: Pay will start at $20.85/hour and can be adjusted based on experience.

Schedule: Monday-Friday 6am-4:30pm with opportunity for overtime as business demands.

What you will do:

• At SPM Oil & Gas, our primary objective is to provide our customers with excellent engineering solutions through our products and superior customer service
• Process incoming iron starts to finish.  Able to accept equipment from delivery, recertify equipment, load equipment for delivery, complete all associate paperwork, perform quality check, and manage inventory (without supervision) 
• Understand customer requirements throughout the entire refurbishment of flow control product to produce high quality product
• Clean, strip and inspect all required flow control components
• Prepare flow control products for Gauging, Ultra Sonic, and MPI inspections
• Disassemble of flow control products per Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
• Provides proper care and maintenance of all shop tools, equipment, and work area
• Exhibit and always advocate exemplary safety culture
• Perform additional duties as assigned

What you will have:

• Ability to operate hand tools such as pneumatic tooling
• Possess a sound Mechanical Aptitude
• Demonstrate consistency, accountability, reliability, and solid work ethic

What Top Candidates will have:

• Three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Working knowledge of oil and gas equipment

Physical Demands: 

• Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear
• Required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Consistently 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 protective footwear and other Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as required by the department

Work Environment: 

• Regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles
• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions
• Occasionally exposed to high, precarious places and vibration
• Noise Level: Moderate  

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.   

About Caterpillar  

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we have been helping customers build a better, more sus