Join Progress Rail (via Impact Workforce Solutions) — Muncie, IN
Help assemble mission-critical electrical compartments with precision and pride. This full-time role is part of a partnership between Progress Rail, a Caterpillar company, and Impact Workforce Solutions.
Why this role
- 2nd shift (Mon–Fri, 2:30pm–11:00pm) with mandatory weekly overtime
- Starting pay: $20+ (based on shift and experience)
- 2nd Shift Rate: $19.00/hr + $1.00 shift differential ($20.00/hr)
- Weekly pay, full-time status
Benefits through Impact Workforce Solutions
- 5 Days of PTO
- 6 Paid Holidays
- Up to 50% of health insurance premiums paid by Impact
- Retirement access, financial fitness, and employee savings programs
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What you’ll do
- Install large components and sub-assemblies into electrical compartments
- Route loose wires and cables to designated components and complete terminations
- Terminate and dress cables to specification across the compartment
- Support corrective actions for Quality-identified non-conformances
- Follow process documentation and quality gate sheets
- Verify gauge calibration; torque to engineering standards
- Maintain clean, organized work areas
Advanced scope
- Install harnesses/loose wires to panel assemblies; make accurate component terminations
- Build plug assemblies; terminate per plug charts
- Create wire harnesses using process drawings
- Train team members
What you’ll bring
- 1+ year manufacturing experience (heavy industrial preferred)
- Read a tape measure with confidence
- Experience with hand tools
- Blueprint and wiring/wire schematic experience (preferred)
- Curiosity and a strong learning mindset
- Forklift and/or crane operation experience (preferred)
- Basic PC/data entry skills
- Familiarity with industrial environments, heavy structural assembly, and the safe use of hand/power tools and measuring devices
Physical & environmental conditions
- Lift/carry up to 50 lbs; push/pull up to 75 lbs
- Constant walking; frequent, sustained bending, crouching, stopping, kneeing, squatting; overhead reach; ladder climbing
- Follow written/verbal instructions; hear audible alarms
- Work on concrete, gravel, rail car and locomotive floors; at varied heights (floor to tops of locomotives); in confined spaces
- Non-temperature-controlled environment; all weather; high noise and dust
- Comfort working independently
- Safety-sensitive role around active tracks, rail cars, locomotives, and moving equipment; comply with all safety protocols, health/medical screenings, and required PPE
Skills & tools
You should be proficient in:
- Mechanical Troubleshooting Skills
- Electrical / Electronic Systems
- Mechanical Assembly Skills
- Blueprint Reading
- Electrical Assembly
- Mechanical Assembly
Machines & technologies you'll use:
- Power Tools
- Hand tools
- Measuring Tape
Compliance
EOE
Thank you for your interest in Impact Workforce Solutions, we are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and participate in the E-Verify eligibility confirmation program.