We analyzed the existing problems of mechanical engineering specialty construction and training talents with applied competence in teachingoriented engineering colleges, and put forward new ideas about the professional teaching group construction. Closely combined with the society needs, school orientation and characteristics, based on the employing units, graduates and enrolled students questionnaire survey, we presented a specialized teaching platform with common characteristics of construction machinery, proposed a talent training mode which was professionally characterized by construction machinery, and explored the road for the specialty construction and cultivating talents with applied competence in teachingoriented engineering colleges. The feasibility and effectiveness of this mode were verified based on the effect analysis of talent cultivation.