STEM OPT Facilities Engineer Jobs
Facilities Engineer roles qualify for STEM OPT when your degree falls under an eligible CIP code in engineering or a related STEM field. The 24-month extension gives you up to 36 months of work authorization, provided your employer is enrolled in E-Verify and signs your I-983 training plan.
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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.
Role Summary
- Coordinate recurring facility services, operational purchases, reporting systems, assets, and CMDC’s leased-vehicle fleet.
- Work alongside and under the functional direction of the senior facilities engineer, helping manage recurring operational responsibilities with increasing independence as knowledge, judgment, and capability are demonstrated. Support facility and capital projects.
- Serve as a primary point of vehicle fleet coordination among CMDC personnel, vendors, vehicle users, and supporting organizations.
- Develop, improve, and maintain facilities maintenance processes, tools, and capabilities.
What You’ll Do
- Vendor and Facility Services: Coordinate recurring vendors and services, including landscape and field maintenance, fuel, office and shop supplies, pest control, pallet and waste removal, and other facility needs.
- Fleet and Lease Coordination: Assume overall coordination of CMDC’s leased-vehicle fleet and serve as the primary CMDC contact with Wheels, Caterpillar’s preferred lease vendor. Coordinate vehicle assignments, replacements, renewals, maintenance needs, documentation, and follow-up with vehicle users and affected business areas.
- Purchasing and Financial Coordination: Coordinate orders, deliveries, receipt verification, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, spending records, and resolution of purchasing or service discrepancies.
- Asset and Workplace Coordination: Maintain records and coordinate inventory, assignment, transfer, recovery, and disposal of radios, fixed assets, furniture, and other facility or operational equipment. Coordinate furniture and room or workstation IT needs with the appropriate resources.
- Maintenance and Preventive Maintenance Systems: Maintain the facility maintenance application and related reporting systems, including preventive maintenance schedules, service records, open items, completion status, and required follow-up. Coordinate with facility personnel, vendors, and supporting teams to help keep maintenance information accurate and current.
- Facility and Project Support: Lead/support facility and capital projects through vendor coordination, scheduling, documentation, and stakeholder communication. Escalate significant scope, cost, technical, policy, priority, or vendor-performance concerns.
What You Have
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Maintains accurate fleet, lease, purchasing, asset, vendor, and operational records and recognizes the impact of incomplete or inaccurate information.
- Effective Communications: Clearly communicates priorities, status, requirements, and unresolved issues to a wide range of people, including vehicle users, vendors, employees, supporting organizations, and facility leadership, and follows through to get results.
- Engineering in a Manufacturing or Product Development Environment: Understands how facilities, infrastructure, vehicles, equipment, and support services contribute to product development and engineering operations.
- Plant Facilities Management: Understands common facilities-management practices and how routine services, maintenance, and infrastructure support keep a site operating effectively.
- Problem Solving: Uses structured methods to investigate and resolve purchasing, service, vendor, and fleet issues.
- Project Management: Organizes and tracks activities, schedules, purchases, costs, documentation, resources, and deliverables while supporting facility and capital projects.
- Technical Troubleshooting: Identifies and corrects data and system issues in maintenance applications, preventive maintenance records, asset records, and operational reports, engaging technical or functional resources when needed.
Critical Required Skills
- Digital Tools and Applications: Able to build, update, and maintain simple business applications and workflows using Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint, Forms, and Excel to track work, manage data, and improve processes.
- Customer and Partner Accountability: Takes ownership of requests from internal customers and partners, keeps commitments, and closes the loop on open items.
- Relationship Building: Builds trusted working relationships with employees, supporting teams, and vendors to resolve issues and keep work moving.
- Maintenance or Infrastructure project experience
Top Candidates Will Also Have
- Degree (Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management, or related field) or equivalent experience.
- Experience coordinating vendors, purchasing, leased vehicles, operational services, assets, or workplace needs in a product development or industrial environment.
- Working knowledge of capital or infrastructure project management, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, receiving, cost tracking, asset systems, and operational reporting.
- Ability to coordinate multiple priorities, work effectively across business areas, and exercise sound judgment.
Summary Pay Range:
$81,370.00 - $122,060.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of 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
Posting Dates:
November 3, 2026 - November 16, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community.
Career Area:
Manufacturing
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.
Role Summary
- Coordinate recurring facility services, operational purchases, reporting systems, assets, and CMDC’s leased-vehicle fleet.
- Work alongside and under the functional direction of the senior facilities engineer, helping manage recurring operational responsibilities with increasing independence as knowledge, judgment, and capability are demonstrated. Support facility and capital projects.
- Serve as a primary point of vehicle fleet coordination among CMDC personnel, vendors, vehicle users, and supporting organizations.
- Develop, improve, and maintain facilities maintenance processes, tools, and capabilities.
What You’ll Do
- Vendor and Facility Services: Coordinate recurring vendors and services, including landscape and field maintenance, fuel, office and shop supplies, pest control, pallet and waste removal, and other facility needs.
- Fleet and Lease Coordination: Assume overall coordination of CMDC’s leased-vehicle fleet and serve as the primary CMDC contact with Wheels, Caterpillar’s preferred lease vendor. Coordinate vehicle assignments, replacements, renewals, maintenance needs, documentation, and follow-up with vehicle users and affected business areas.
- Purchasing and Financial Coordination: Coordinate orders, deliveries, receipt verification, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, spending records, and resolution of purchasing or service discrepancies.
- Asset and Workplace Coordination: Maintain records and coordinate inventory, assignment, transfer, recovery, and disposal of radios, fixed assets, furniture, and other facility or operational equipment. Coordinate furniture and room or workstation IT needs with the appropriate resources.
- Maintenance and Preventive Maintenance Systems: Maintain the facility maintenance application and related reporting systems, including preventive maintenance schedules, service records, open items, completion status, and required follow-up. Coordinate with facility personnel, vendors, and supporting teams to help keep maintenance information accurate and current.
- Facility and Project Support: Lead/support facility and capital projects through vendor coordination, scheduling, documentation, and stakeholder communication. Escalate significant scope, cost, technical, policy, priority, or vendor-performance concerns.
What You Have
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Maintains accurate fleet, lease, purchasing, asset, vendor, and operational records and recognizes the impact of incomplete or inaccurate information.
- Effective Communications: Clearly communicates priorities, status, requirements, and unresolved issues to a wide range of people, including vehicle users, vendors, employees, supporting organizations, and facility leadership, and follows through to get results.
- Engineering in a Manufacturing or Product Development Environment: Understands how facilities, infrastructure, vehicles, equipment, and support services contribute to product development and engineering operations.
- Plant Facilities Management: Understands common facilities-management practices and how routine services, maintenance, and infrastructure support keep a site operating effectively.
- Problem Solving: Uses structured methods to investigate and resolve purchasing, service, vendor, and fleet issues.
- Project Management: Organizes and tracks activities, schedules, purchases, costs, documentation, resources, and deliverables while supporting facility and capital projects.
- Technical Troubleshooting: Identifies and corrects data and system issues in maintenance applications, preventive maintenance records, asset records, and operational reports, engaging technical or functional resources when needed.
Critical Required Skills
- Digital Tools and Applications: Able to build, update, and maintain simple business applications and workflows using Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint, Forms, and Excel to track work, manage data, and improve processes.
- Customer and Partner Accountability: Takes ownership of requests from internal customers and partners, keeps commitments, and closes the loop on open items.
- Relationship Building: Builds trusted working relationships with employees, supporting teams, and vendors to resolve issues and keep work moving.
- Maintenance or Infrastructure project experience
Top Candidates Will Also Have
- Degree (Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management, or related field) or equivalent experience.
- Experience coordinating vendors, purchasing, leased vehicles, operational services, assets, or workplace needs in a product development or industrial environment.
- Working knowledge of capital or infrastructure project management, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, receiving, cost tracking, asset systems, and operational reporting.
- Ability to coordinate multiple priorities, work effectively across business areas, and exercise sound judgment.
Summary Pay Range:
$81,370.00 - $122,060.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of 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
Posting Dates:
November 3, 2026 - November 16, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as a Facilities Engineer
Verify your CIP code before applying
Check your degree's Classification of Instructional Programs code against the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List before targeting roles. Mechanical, civil, industrial, and systems engineering degrees qualify, but facilities-adjacent fields like construction management often don't.
Filter employers by E-Verify enrollment status
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before investing time in any application. Use Migrate Mate to filter Facilities Engineer postings to employers already verified as E-Verify participants, so you're not discovering the gap at the offer stage.
Target employers with active facilities operations
Facilities Engineer roles exist across manufacturing, healthcare, data centers, and higher education. Companies with owned real estate portfolios or multi-site operations file more consistently for STEM OPT students than project-based contractors who staff up and down.
Draft your I-983 training plan around specific technical objectives
Your I-983 must connect your STEM degree to the role's engineering tasks. Map objectives to systems like HVAC commissioning, energy management software, or preventive maintenance programs. Vague plans tied only to job duties get pushed back by DSOs.
Ask about E-Verify status before the offer stage
Bring up E-Verify enrollment during the final interview or before accepting an offer. Many facilities departments within large organizations are enrolled, but staffing agencies placed in facilities roles often are not. USCIS requires enrollment at the time of your OPT extension start date.
Use OFLC Wage Search to negotiate informed offers
Pull prevailing wage data for your SOC code and metro area from the OFLC Wage Search before entering salary discussions. Facilities Engineers have region-specific wage levels, and knowing the DOL benchmark gives you a grounded starting point for any negotiation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Facilities Engineer role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on the degree, not the job title. STEM OPT eligibility is tied to your CIP code, not your position. Degrees in mechanical, civil, electrical, industrial, or systems engineering typically qualify. Your employer also needs to be enrolled in E-Verify and co-sign your I-983 training plan with your DSO before USCIS approves the extension.
What does the I-983 training plan need to include for a Facilities Engineer?
The I-983 must connect your STEM degree to specific engineering learning objectives in the role. For Facilities Engineers, that means documenting how tasks like building systems analysis, energy audits, or infrastructure project management develop skills from your degree program. Generic descriptions tied only to daily duties won't satisfy DSO review. Your employer's direct supervisor typically co-signs the form.
How do I confirm an employer is enrolled in E-Verify before applying?
You can ask the recruiter or HR contact directly. The E-Verify employer search tool on the E-Verify website lets you look up enrolled employers by name and location. Note that E-Verify enrollment applies to a specific employer entity, so a parent company's enrollment doesn't automatically cover a subsidiary. Confirm the specific hiring entity is enrolled, not just the corporate brand.
What happens to my STEM OPT authorization if my Facilities Engineer role changes significantly?
A material change in job duties, location, or employer requires an updated I-983. You and your employer must notify your DSO within five days of a material change under USCIS rules. If the new duties no longer connect to your STEM degree's learning objectives, your DSO may determine the role no longer supports your extension. Keep your training plan current with your actual work.
Where can I find Facilities Engineer jobs that are confirmed to hire STEM OPT students?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for employers who hire F-1 STEM OPT students and are enrolled in E-Verify, so you're not sorting through postings that won't work for your status. Searching there saves significant time compared to applying broadly and discovering eligibility issues after an offer is extended.