Senior Electronic Component Engineer

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.

Role Definition:

Design, development and testing of electronic control modules (ECM/ECU) for use within machines and engine systems.

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing compliance with functional & environmental requirements, development processes, and regulations for ECM/ECUs.

• Development of product requirements, analysis and simulation, electronic component selection, schematic/layout review, and platform verification and validation.

• Collaboration with various levels of software as well as machine and engine systems teams to ensure the platform integrates into multiple applications.

• Managing and negotiating with ECM/ECU vendors for the development of systems and components.

• Investigating and troubleshooting all technical issues related to ECM/ECUs during development and through the production lifecycle.

• Mentoring technicians and engineers in the development of electrical and electronic systems and components

• Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Electrical, Electronics curriculum.

Degree Requirement: Bachelor’s degree in engineering from  Tier 1 College and University. Master’s degree in Engineering will be a plus.

Skill Descriptors:

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.

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.

Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.

 Level Working Knowledge:

•            Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.

•            Under guidance, plans and estimates simple projects.

•            Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements.

•            Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.

•            Produces standard project status reports.

Electronics Engineering - HTH: Knowledge of electronics engineering; ability to design, test and manufacture electronic circuits, components and devices.

 Level Extensive Experience:

•            Trains others on designing complex integrated circuits.

•            Anticipates the challenges and opportunities associated with creating printed circuit boards.

•            Interprets alternative interfaces between hardware and software and associated requirements and considerations.

•            Advises on matching methodology, materials and tools to the electronic product that is being built.

•            Consults on engineering multiple electronic circuits, components or devices.

•            Evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of analog and digital circuits.

Product Design - HTH: Knowledge of and the ability to utilize design tools (e.g. CAD) to convert customer and market requirements into a product design.

 Level Extensive Experience:

•            Monitors each phase of the design procedure to ensure overall operation meets standards.

•            Trains others on major processes of product design; directs the conception of each component.

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

•            Delivers improvement plans to senior management and compares the outcome of the design against the architecture.

•            Evaluates feedback from customers and consults on functional weaknesses.

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

Reliability Management - HTH: Knowledge of reliability management; ability to utilize various tools, techniques, methodologies and metrics to meet and manage hardware product performance and reliability objectives.

 Level Working Knowledge:

•            Selects appropriate tools and methods to ensure reliability expectations in hardware products.

•            Participates in product reliability and quality assurance standard processes to meet process demands.

•            Conducts performance and reliability testing for a specific hardware product or product group.

•            Implements reliability activities and tasks for product development and maintenance plans.

•            Analyzes common hardware reliability failures; provides corrective action plans.

Mechanical Engineering - MFG: Knowledge of mechanical engineering processes, techniques and methods; ability to design and implement machines and other mechanical devices that safely realize a desired objective or invention.

 Level Working Knowledge:

•            Works with basic, routine components of the mechanical engineering discipline in manufacturing.

•            Performs basic installation, testing, maintenance and repairs for machines, engines and other equipment.

•            Uses software to draft drawings or writes specifications for specific mechanical engineering projects.

•            Assists senior staff to resolve unusual mechanical problems; recommends ideas.

•            Follows relevant standards, policies and practices in mechanical engineering operations; reports violations.

Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice.

 Level Working Knowledge:

•            Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks.

•            Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers.

•            Resolves routine supplier issues; escalates non-routine issues up chain of command.

•            Researches alternative vendors or suppliers; participates in supplier selection.

•            Works with suppliers to ensure that purchases meet delivery date and quality specifications.

Additional information: This job requires 5 working days from office.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job.  At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.  It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Posting Dates:

November 3, 2026 - November 17, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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