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.

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. In this position, you will provide technical and strategic leadership across multi-functional teams that executes multiple workstreams focusing on modularity and commonality for Load and Haul Products. You will play a key role in the technical leadership of electrical architecture and cab systems workstreams for project Convergence with a keen eye on the Quality, Time, and Cost (Investments and Benefits). This role will be expected to work across multiple workstreams at the same time and collaborate with all 4 Load and Haul product teams. You will be responsible for identifying and finding improvement opportunities that exist across each of the different processes and executing strategies to address them.

Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Contribute to the planning and delivery of the Convergence Project
• Manage design and system integration of new components, systems and manufacturing processes
• Brainstorm new ideas, perform technical analysis, and develop solutions
• Evaluate new products, processes, or systems, and execute improvements
• Keep up to date on new technologies or develop new technologies
• Communicate technical information to customers, team members, suppliers, and other business units
• Support and advise other engineers, managers, marketing personnel, customers, and suppliers

Degree Requirement:

• Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering curriculum

What Skills you will have:

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 Extensive Experience:
• Enhances the processes and procedures used in the organization's records retention program.
• Uses detailed knowledge of records retention program to conduct training and/or meetings.
• Ensures that all exceptions and unusual circumstances are properly captured and reviewed.
• Coordinates and monitors the various steps involved in a records retention program.
• Helps others understand how the recording of information impacts other business units.
• Provides guidance in documenting pertinent 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 Extensive Experience:
• Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
• Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
• Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
• Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
• Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
• Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

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.

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 Extensive Experience:
• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

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 Extensive Experience:
• Presents only the most salient points, that is, those that have the largest potential impact.
• Links information patterns and trends to hypotheses.
• Synthesizes key issues, patterns and trends and summarizes the implications.
• Proposes alternative solutions when presented with problems or opportunities.
• Masters new concepts quickly.
• Simplifies complex ideas into easily understood concepts.

Additional Information:

The primary location for this position is Mossville, IL (AC)

Domestic relocation assistance is available

Travel will be up to 15%

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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Posting Dates:

October 3, 2024 - October 16, 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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