Asset Operations Support Representative

Caterpillar Inc.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Nashville, TN seeks an Asset Operations Support role focused on enabling the sale of used equipment. The position emphasizes accurate asset data, regulatory compliance, and coordination with sales and logistics teams to ensure smooth remarketing processes.

Applicants should have degree or equivalent experience and an understanding of asset management. The role requires attention to detail and a collaborative approach within a global enterprise.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience desired.
• Knowledge of asset management and remarketing processes.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Collect and validate information needed to inventory and sell assets.
• Update asset and system records throughout remarketing process.
• Ensure all legal and compliance requirements are met, including process controls and regulatory filings.
• Coordinate auction consignment, Cat Used access, notices of sale, and sales holds.
• Provide back-up support to Asset Operations Support Reps and Logistics Consultant.

Education

Degree or equivalent experience desired

Job description

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.

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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.

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

Our common values and focus on inclusion and respect drive the decisions made by our company, teams, and people. This is why we are committed to hiring and building diverse team representatives of the customers we serve globally. When you join our team, you can apply your unique life and job experiences and work in an environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are celebrated, and your whole-self matters.

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.

About Cat Financial

Cat Financial is a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., 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 more than 40 years, Cat Financial has provided a wide range of financing solutions to customers and Cat® dealers for machines, engines, Solar® gas turbines, genuine Cat parts and services. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Cat Financial serves customers globally with offices and subsidiaries located throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. Visit cat.com to learn more about Cat Financial.

Role Definition

Provide operational support to sales staff and business partners for the sale of used equipment.

Responsibilities

• Collect and validate information needed to inventory and sell assets.
• Update asset and system records throughout remarketing process.
• Ensure all legal and compliance requirements are met, including process controls and regulatory filings.
• Coordinate auction consignment, Cat Used access, notices of sale, and sales holds.
• Provide back-up support to Asset Operations Support Reps and Logistics Consultant.

Degree Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.

Level Basic Understanding

• Focuses activities on developing and maintaining positive customer relationships.
• Discusses general differences between internally and externally focused organizations.
• Cites the cost and benefits of good versus poor customer service.
• Explains why customer satisfaction is important to successful product/service delivery.

Service Excellence

Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.

Level Basic Understanding

• Cites personal experiences of receiving excellent customer service.
• Describes examples of poor, mediocre, and excellent service.
• Explains how managing customer perceptions and expectations enhances customer service.
• Describes several important business benefits of providing high quality service.

Accuracy and Attention to Detail

Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

Level Basic Understanding

• Explains the importance of accuracy in own function or unit.
• Identifies tasks or outputs that require accuracy and detail-level attention.
• Identifies the procedures for making sure that results are mistake-free.
• Describes consequences of errors within own unit or function.

Collaborating

Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.

Level Basic Understanding

• Demonstrates a basic understanding of the concept of collaborative processes.
• Explains the concept of collaboration as applicable to organizations.
• Provides examples of how collaboration has helped achieve organizational goals.
• Contrasts collaborative with competitive operating styles in organizations.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Basic Understanding

• Explains characteristics and steps in an effective decision-making process.
• Identifies issues and communicates with others when a decision needs to be made.
• Names decision makers in own environment and cites examples of past decisions.
• Describes types of decisions incumbent may and may not make in own job or function.

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.

Level Basic Understanding

• Describes non-verbal behaviors that influence the interpretation of the message.
• Cites examples of effective and ineffective communications.
• Explains the importance of effective business communication.
• Speaks/writes using correct language, mechanics, and gestures.

Problem Solving

Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Basic Understanding

• Explains the value of a disciplined approach to problem solving.
• Describes problem reporting and escalation practices.