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.

About EPD

Caterpillar’s Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data canters, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

The Electric Power Division currently has an opening for a Mechanical Design Engineer in the Global Gas Solutions Packaging team. The position will design the mechanical Balance of Plant and enclosure components for natural gas genset solutions. A strong focus will be on CHP and Standby enclosures. Enclosure solution designs will integrate mechanical components and distribution into the packages, serving different customer applications.

The incumbent will facilitate the concept and the detailed engineering design for various aspects of the standard enclosed genset solutions, overseeing the releasing to Cat engineering systems, helping resource components and assemblies, leading or participating in the design reviews, participating in the VDRA’s to ensure manufacturability of the engineering designs in support of new product development (NPI) as well as engineering maintenance (custom orders) in a manner to ensure the products provide superior performance, best cost, durability, quality, and serviceability. The incumbent will facilitate or support the validation testing.

This position requires to be able to effectively collaborate with internal partners, external suppliers, operations, supply chain, commercial team, and third-party packagers to deliver robust designs globally and to drive cost reduction and quality improvements.

What you will do:
• Accountable for concept and design of mechanical components and subsystems for the standard packaged enclosed solutions, processing engineering drawings and data in line with company procedures and Cat engineering systems, monitoring prints releasing to Cat systems on time
• Support design reviews, virtual design reviews, sourcing parts from suppliers, and validation testing
• Create drawings for customized standard solutions
• Perform quality checks on enclosure packaging solutions and drive issue resolution with a sense of urgency
• Release pricing arrangements for the pricelist options
• Release parts in alignment with CVA’s to support total life cycle cost calculations before a sale is executed
• Provide technical support to the technical sales support team and to the global production facilities through internal operations partners or third-party packagers
• Identify and implement cost reduction opportunities
• Communicate technical information effectively with team members and others in the work group, suppliers, dealers/customers and other departments in a concise and accurate manner
• Provide presentations for Dealer Advisory Team (DAT) meetings and support training needs to internal and external groups
• Complete projects on time and on cost

What you have:
Degree Requirement:
Bachelor’s degree in an accredited Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, or Design Engineering.

Technical Excellence: Demonstrated proficiency with integrating electrical controls and distribution into a mechanical solutions packaging
Level Working Knowledge:
• Proficient with custom packaging design and implementation

• Proficient with custom packaging design and implementation

•  Experienced with solving product quality issues

• Experience with engineering releasing in SAP

• Supplier collaboration experience
• Experience working in a design/development/problem solving environment

Analytical Thinking: Demonstrated strong analytical skills in design optimization for manufacturability
Level Working Knowledge:
• Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
• Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
• Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
• Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
• Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

Effective Communications: Effective communications skills with the ability to communicate technical information effectively with team members and dealers/customers
Level Working Knowledge:
• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

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 Working Knowledge:
• Recognizes changing demands and priorities; validates changes with management.
• Obtains information about how current assignments contribute to organizational goals.
• Completes current work according to assigned priorities.
• Responds to day-to-day operational priorities while still making progress on project work.
• Performs at least 2-3 concurrent activities without reducing productivity.


Computer-Aided Design & Engineering: Knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate and test product design drafts.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Generates specifications for parts or components with CAD software.
• Reuses design components via reusable libraries following standard procedures.
• Uses CAD to perform basic drafting such as wire frames, solid objects and array of objects.
• Performs routine changes to computerized schematics or drawings.
• Creates views of objects in 2 and 3 dimensions; creates perspective drawings and orthogonal 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 Working Knowledge:
• Participates in the conception process of a manufacturing product vision.
• Collects and analyzes customer and market requirements, and generates reports.
• Utilizes design methods to implement the construction of a new design model.
• Uses automated tools to design or modify the design of a product.
• Assists in the testing and refinement of a new product design.

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 Working Knowledge:
• Builds three-dimensional models with basic materials.
• Communicates with professionals to understand various requirements of product design.
• Tests and evaluates alternative means of production being considered for use.
• Uses automated tools to design or modify the design of a product.
• Assists in building a complex prototype of product.

Other:

• Relocation is offered

• Sponsorship is not supported

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Summary Pay Range:

$87,480.00 - $131,280.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar. 

Benefits:

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)

Disability benefits

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Healthy Lifestyle Programs

Employee Assistance Programs

Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts

Tuition Reimbursement

Career Development

*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

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:

January 15, 2025 - January 29, 2025

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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