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.

Job Title: Systems Integration Senior Engineering Specialist

Location: Peterlee

Salary: £73,440 - £91,789

Hours: Full Time - 36.50

Job Requisition: R0000265971

Hiring Manager: James Thurston

Close Date: 28th July 2024

Your impact 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.

porting into the Articulated Truck engineering manager you will be the technical NPI lead for Articulated Trucks supporting L&H Convergence and the development of new, electrified, drivetrain systems for Articulated Trucks.

Directing and participating in the design and development of complex engineering projects related to machine development to ensure products provide superior customer value in comparison to the competition in terms of features, performance, durability, and quality, with considerations of cost, manufacturing, velocity, and serviceability.

Responsibilities
• Developing solutions for complex technical engineering problems and may be accountable for the design or improvement of complex systems including advanced concepts that align the product to the product line strategy.
• Understanding of customers’ needs and product application as well as the competitive products, and understanding cost drivers.
• Keeping up-to-date with technology and developing increased technical breadth and/or depth.
• Designing new products and contributing to establishing the product line strategy for the product group. Examples include: defining the program, machine configuration, and modularity strategy; evaluating new products and competitive products; communicating technology to customers, team members, suppliers, and other units; supporting and advising other engineers, managers, marketing personnel, customers, suppliers, and other process partners.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Information Capture: Knowledge of the methods, channels and processes to obtain needed information; ability to identify, capture and document relevant business information in an auditable, organized, understandable and easily retrievable manner.

Level Expert:
• Speaks to knowledge management issues related to information capture.
• Plays a leadership role in establishing organization's standards, policies, and procedures.
• Exerts influence and directly impacts organization initiatives for documentation management.
• Discusses pros and cons of major applications and documentation sources and methods.
• Monitors industry trends and directions and discusses possible impact on internal policies.
• Contributes to organization and industry best practices for documenting information.

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 Expert:
• Analyzes and discusses alternatives with multiple stakeholders.
• Monitors developments in critical-thinking and decision-making models for potential use by organization.
• Coaches others in decision-making models, processes, and practices.
• Anticipates special issues and considerations for effective decision-making during a crisis.
• Shares experiences regarding optimal timing and circumstances for refraining from or making decisions.
• Differentiates between content and context of a decision.

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 behaviours.

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.

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 Expert:
• Gains agreement on the problem-solving process, risk assessment, decision points, and criteria.
• Trains others in the process of eliciting alternatives and assessing their impact.
• Orchestrates the resolution of high-impact and cross-functional problems.
• Successfully organizes problem solvers and stakeholders for high-impact problems.
• Predicts and explains long-term trends and implications for alternatives.
• Monitors industry for best practices and new techniques in problem-solving.

Conceptual Thinking: Knowledge of thinking and reasoning at a conceptual level; ability to identify the critical ideas and interdependencies among system elements that impact performance.

Level Expert:
• Interprets the business impact of changes and project data over time.
• Re-frames complex ideas and diverse data into simple pictures or statements.
• Investigates beneath the surface of an issue to focus systematically on root causes.
• Identifies the most significant patterns or data (e.g., "bad data," high-impact data) to focus on.
• Examines the full range of options when considering new ideas or data.
• Validates results through key measures (e.g., customer impact, etc.).

Engineering - MFG: Knowledge of processes, techniques and methods of engineering in a manufacturing environment; ability to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems and processes that safely realize a desired objective or invention.

Level Extensive Experience:
• Trains others on most components of engineering as related to manufacturing.
• Guides others on the application of manufacturing industry and organizational best engineering practices and explains their rationale.
• Facilitates the integration of engineering systems and applications for a manufacturing organization.
• Advises others on the key benefits, drawbacks and rationale for engineering standards, policies and practices.
• Monitors the effectiveness and efficiency of processes and improves engineering operations performance.
• Works with various complex engineering operations in a manufacturing environment.

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

Level Expert:
• Promotes the use of advanced methods and tools in product design.
• Establishes new product development strategies and policies for the organization.
• Oversees complicated product design projects across multi-functions.
• Constructs design standards to unify operations in the manufacturing industry.
• Develops and maintains partnerships with external professional teams to optimize the product design structure.
• Develops organizational best practices for the management of product design.Our benefits package.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including -

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays including additional service days awarded each year
• 20% Bonus target
• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme (Contribution double by Company up to 10%),
• Share Ownership Scheme (50% company matched)
• Personalised flexible benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free onsite parking

NB. The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.

Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting.

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Posting Dates:

August 21, 2024 - August 28, 2024

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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