Product Service Specialist

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.

Product Support

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.

Our Product Support and Logistics Division (PSLD) is one of the most innovative divisions within Caterpillar. In PSLD, as within all of Caterpillar, our priority is our customers and helping them build a better world. We touch nearly every element of the services value stream. PSLD is responsible for Aftermarket Parts Distribution of Cat Parts, Integrated Logistics and Global Services supporting Caterpillar dealers and customers.

Our teams work together in critical areas that leverage digital capabilities, technology and operational excellence.

The Dealer Solutions Network (DSN) service team, within Global Service, is the first point of contact at Caterpillar when our dealers are faced with product issues. We are responsible for providing timely product support directly to our dealers to put products back into service. When you join the Dealer Solutions Network service team, you will be joining a team dedicated to providing world class product support for our dealers and customers.

As a Product Service Specialist
, you will work directly with dealers and Caterpillar product groups to provide quality interim and permanent resolutions to complex product health issues on all Caterpillar products.

The Product Service Specialist is part of a team that handles approximately 70,000 dealer service requests per year. This team and individual are measured on resolution, response time (urgency) and customer/dealer satisfaction (quality) for Service Requests (SR) from the Dealer Solution Network (DSN).

• Location:
  
  Peoria, IL (United States)
• Required Travel:
  Less than 10% (Domestic)
• Relocation Assistance Offered:
  None
• US Work Sponsorship Offered:
  None

• Collaborate with product group support teams and elevate as needed to ensure quality resolutions are provided in a timely manner
• Facilitate problem resolution between Dealer and internal Caterpillar personnel
• The initial “triage” on product health events (includes the receiving and recording of Incident Reports to Caterpillar)
• Record event information for future reference and for CPI data mining
• Ensure that relevant details of the SR are properly documented, (i.e. S/N, dealer details, product problem description, escalation, resolution)
• Investigate documented information and manage dealer inquiry to closure
• Reopen and/or review issues with dealers as appropriate
• Adhere to DSN Best Practices (Guidelines)
• Occasional off-hour support may be required for holidays and weekends

• 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.
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