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March 28, 2026
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Data Specialist

East Peoria, IL
Full-time
Onsite
$89K/yr - $134K/yr
Entry, Mid Level
Caterpillar Inc. is a global team focused on building a better world through innovation and progress. They are seeking a Data Specialist to employ data analytics for assessing technical performance, ensuring solutions conform to models, and identifying data inaccuracies within large datasets.
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Responsibilities

  • Employ data analytics to assess technical performance and recommend system enhancements
  • Analyze customer requirements, ensuring solutions conform to models while being implementable and maintainable
  • Identify data inaccuracies within large datasets of diverse formats
  • Research, design, and document data specifications throughout the production lifecycle
  • Demonstrate proficiency in software development, web technologies, SQL, and other data programming languages
  • Explain the importance of Value Realization milestones for long-term projects and measure and attain post-project implementation value
  • Identify process changes or business value integration in change initiative plans and activities
  • Communicate connections between change initiatives and associated goals and cases
  • Describe agile process, including checkpoints and deliverables
  • Apply agile development methodology, interpreting metrics used to measure progress and effectiveness
  • Define key selection and qualifying criteria for projects suitable for agile development
  • Utilize major tools and techniques associated with specific methodologies
  • Work with cloud service models, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • Follow established procedures to define client requirements for cloud services
  • Implement cloud service models, including IaaS, SaaS, or Serverless computing
  • Execute tasks under supervision to increase capacity or add capabilities through cloud computing
  • Document and resolve basic cloud security issues
  • Research relationships between business data sets and establish structured data relationships
  • Adhere to organization database design policies, utilizing appropriate tools and techniques
  • Test database effectiveness before release for business use
  • Verify data accuracy and integrity in warehouse systems
  • Load data into the warehouse regularly
  • Derive business or technical insights from raw data
  • Acquire large volumes of data from different sources and systems
  • Address technical and administrative challenges encountered during the ETL process
  • Assist in the installation, configuration, and support of information management software
  • Develop backup, recovery, and archival practices
  • Analyze issues and requirements for managing information resources
  • Design value chain that achieves customer availability requirements and internal financial commitments for Drivetrain components manufactured globally
  • Work with a global network of Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering, Business Resources, and IT professionals to solve complex problems and drive business solutions
  • Develop, deploy, and maintain digital tools designed to address business problems

Qualification

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Data Science, Analytics or a related field
  • 2.5 years of experience as a Data Specialist, Data Analyst, Data Scientist, or related occupation in data analytics
  • Experience with Extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) process, and/or developing databases through the ETL process in Snowflake and Python
  • Experience designing, deploying and implementing cloud computing solutions which connect supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, and purchasing data models
  • Experience with Operations, supply chain, and purchasing to build inventory models
  • Experience using PowerPoint, PowerBi, and Excel to make data driven business proposals
  • Experience with Snowflake data base architecture development and access management
  • 1 year of experience with Operations, Supply Chain, or Purchasing
  • 2.5 years of experience working with drivetrain components, BOM (Bill of Materials) structures, and mechanical engineering drawings

Preferred

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)
  • 401(k) savings plans
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
  • Health Lifestyle Programs
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts
  • Career Development
  • Incentive bonus
  • Disability benefits
  • Life Insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption benefits
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • These benefits also apply to part-time employees
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