Career Area:

Engineering

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.

This role is for a Senior Design Engineer on the Wheeled Products Hydraulic Installation team focused on Large Mining Trucks.  Hydraulic Installation comprises the placement and retention of hydraulic components (pumps, motors, valves, cylinders, etc.) and designing connections between these components to create a fully functional hydraulic system.

As a Senior Design Engineer at Caterpillar, you will have an opportunity to direct and participate in the design and development of new product concepts and complex engineering projects for release to production in a manner to ensure products provide superior performance, durability, quality, and serviceability.

The candidate will be required to: have thorough hydraulic integration expertise on construction or mining equipment, provide technical expertise and mentoring of less experienced team members, coordinate with the manager to adjust resource levels to fit the workload, and collaborate with value chain partners to develop goals regarding NPI, CPI, and Cost Reduction for the hydraulic installation team.

The ability to diagnose and troubleshoot hydraulic systems and 6 Sigma experience are desirable proficiencies.

What you will do:

•              Researching new materials and competitive products. Organizing, coordinating, and executing the building, testing, and analysis of prototypes.

•              Assisting supply specialists and buyers with supplier development and supplier performance. Overseeing the efforts of drafting and testing specialists.

•              Developing and documenting functional requirements and translating into detail design documents. Participating in buy-build analysis for product components.

•              Participating in and supporting proposal preparation, cost estimates, and technical reports.

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Degree Requirement: Degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.

What skill you will have:

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

Level Extensive Experience:

•              Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.

•              Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.

•              Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.

•              Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.

•              Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.

•              Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

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 Extensive Experience:

•              Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.

•              Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.

•              Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.

•              Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.

•              Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.

•              Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.

Level Extensive Experience:

•              Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.

•              Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.

•              Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.

•              Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.

•              Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.

•              Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of hydraulic integration technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

Level Extensive Experience:

•              Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.

•              Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.

•              Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.

•              Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.

•              Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.

•              Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Computer-Aided Design & Engineering: Knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate and test product design drafts.

Level Extensive Experience:

•              Coaches others on orthographic, isometric and axonometric projections.

•              Presents complex products and systems graphically.

•              Performs manipulations on design objects, such as changing projections and managing drawing layers.

•              Directs the matrix computations performed to transform objects in coordinate space.

•              Consults on benefits and drawbacks of top-down design vs. bottom-up design.

•              Compares and contrasts uses of bird's-eye views and worm's-eye views.

Product Design - MFG: Knowledge of processes, approaches, tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design.

Level Extensive Experience:

•              Develops improvement plans for senior management and evaluates the outcome of the design against the functionality.

•              Advises others on the development of multiple products and their functionality.

•              Trains others on advanced tools and approaches of product design.

•              Monitors the processes and procedures of a complex product design to ensure functional requirements are met.

•              Evaluates feedback from customers and consults on functional weaknesses.

•              Controls design and development costs of a proposed product through effective resource coordination.

Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.

Level Extensive Experience:

•              Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.

•              Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.

•              Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.

•              Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.

•              Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.

•              Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.

Additional Information:

The primary location for this position is Tucson, AZ.

Domestic relocation assistance is available.

This position may require 15 % travel.

Sponsorship is not available.

What you will get:

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides:

• Competitive Base Salary

• Annual incentive bonus plan*

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)

• 401k savings plan

• Health savings account (HSA)

• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

• Short and long-term disability coverage

• Life Insurance

• Paid parental leave

• Healthy Lifestyle Programs

• Employee Assistance Programs

• Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)

*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

Final details:

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Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.

Posting Dates:

September 17, 2024 - October 1, 2024

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.   

EEO/AA Employer.  All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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