at Caterpillar, Inc. in Decatur, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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.
Caterpillar products help create the infrastructure, power and products that motivate the global economy. You have the opportunity to join the Wheeled Products Light Fabrication System team. The team has Light Fabrications design control for Large Mining Trucks, Large Wheel Loaders, Off Highway Trucks, Wheel Tractor Scrapers, Articulated Trucks, and Hard Rock Vehicles. This team of engineers gain broad exposure to design, analysis, test, manufacturing, and supplier collaboration. In this role, you will lead to develop and continuously improve the features, quality, and cost on Off Highway Trucks and Wheel Tractor Scrapers. As a member of the Light Fabrication Engineering team, you will need to have a growth mindset, promote continuous improvement, and help build a defect-free culture. We have a fabulous team that does some of the most exciting work at Caterpillar, and we can’t wait for you to join the team!
What you will do may include, but not limited to:
+ Create concepts and designs to solve complex engineering projects.
+ Utilize CREO to create highly integrated designs within machine platforms.
+ Lead the NPI design, CPI and maintenance deliverables for the Light Fabrication Team.
+ Meet the Cost / Time / Quality goals on NPI and CPI projects and machine platforms.
+ Conduct requirements management, DFMEA, DVP& R (design verification plan & report)
+ Support/Lead design review meetings
+ Support Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process and Concurrent Product and Process Development (CPPD) activity to ensure components are developed to meet time, cost, and quality requirements within budget.
+ Collaborate with other engineering team members, purchasing, suppliers, and Caterpillar product group customers.
What you will have:
+ Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in an Engineering curriculum or Engineering Technology
+ Progressive engineering and product development experience
+ Proficiency in Creo or other 3-D design tools
Top Candidates will also have:
+ Advanced degree in related Engineering discipline
+ Experience of NPI, CPI, Cost and Teamcenter tools / processes
+ Strong verbal and written communication skills
+ Strong analytical skills
+ Caterpillar component and systems knowledge, preferably gained on RI wheel products (ATK / HRV / LMT / LWL / OHT / WTS)
+ Strong collaboration skills, ability to work with a global team including the flexibility to participate in early morning or late evening meetings with partners and suppliers around the world.
What Skills 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 a given 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, technolog
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