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.

Technology is a competitive differentiator. We collaborate with partners across the enterprise to advance technologies including autonomy and automation, which helps enhance site safety, productivity and efficiency across customer operations worldwide.

Our focus isn’t just on what we build, but how we build it. We scale technology solutions across the business. We spearhead product development tools and processes. We collaborate with our partners to provide a seamless experience for our customers. We are obsessed with speed, simplicity and customer outcomes.

Cat Technology also owns enterprise-wide initiatives in innovation, research and development, manufacturing automation and advanced materials, ensuring Caterpillar continues to lead the industry in technological excellence and engineering innovation.

Job Summary:

To facilitate and operate Single-Cylinder Test systems. This is an engineering role focused on research and development projects and at this level of seniority representing a shift from learning and assisting to fully contributing in assignments that are broader, more complex, and challenging in nature.

The key role of this research position in the engineering community is to move from learning and assisting others to fully contributing. At this level, engineers begin partnering with and providing technical guidance within and between units and other teams. Ability to gather relevant information, compare and contrast data, identify relationships, and predict and manage failures is critical. Challenges include challenging the status quo and championing new initiatives, collaborating with team members and other teams, and keeping abreast of advancing technology. Decisions may affect the work group or project team, suppliers, multiple units, and both internal and external customers, and these decisions have significant impact on warranty, total cost of non-quality, customer perception (mainly during tours where you will present your work), costs, sales, leveraging of technology, and informing the corporate technology strategy.

What You Will Do:

• Orchestrate daily workflow through single cylinder test cell/cell.
• Facilitate problem solving sessions at the appropriate level with all appropriate personnel involved.
• Ensure utilization targets met daily.
• Ensure problem resolution in a timely manner by driving problem resolution.
• Ensure data quality on a daily basis through analyzing data quality check points and periodic checks of ongoing data acquisition.
• Handle planning of the next line of sight testing by setting up project contracts, including cost and time estimates, procuring appropriate hardware and testing systems and instrumentation.
• Perform needs analysis and initiate ideas.
• Evaluate new products, processes, or systems.
• Communicate results to customers, suppliers, team members, and other business units.
• Contribute to the design of new products and processes.
• Collaborate with and support other technologists and engineers, managers, marketing personnel, customers and suppliers.
• Keep up to date on modern technologies.

Projects & Assignment Details:

• Projects typically range from two months to three years.
• Individuals may have multiple assignments which may require the engineer to review the work of technicians or other support personnel, provide technical advice to individuals at various levels in the organization and work with another unit or team.
• Assignments will become more complex and require the engineer to assume a significant role, either as an individual contributor or as part of a project team, with increasing emphasis on analyzing, identifying, and applying appropriate technologies to solve problems and make recommendations.

Degree Requirement

• Undergraduate degree in an accredited Engineering curriculum.

What You Will Have:
Accuracy and Attention to Detail:

• Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
• Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
• Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.
  

Analytical Thinking:

• Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
• 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.
  

Technical Excellence:

• Uses a structured approach in analyzing and resolving technical problems.
• Seeks opportunities for continual learning to maintain technical competence in pursuit of technical excellence.
• Pursues, prepares for and assumes new technical assignments and challenges.
  

Product Testing:

• Documents test process and results.
• Summarizes features of a specific product-testing process and associated procedures.
• Develops product-testing procedures; participates in selecting testing environment and tools.
  

Troubleshooting Technical Problems:

• Discusses basic concepts behind a systematic approach to solving technical problems.
• Identifies available resources and support systems for troubleshooting.
• Describes problem identification, reporting and escalation procedures.

Considerations For Top Candidates:

• It is desired that a candidate have single-cylinder engine operation experience, including experience with combustion systems using diesel, natural gas & alternative fuels.
• Proficiency in a wide variety of test systems is required, including use of data acquisition systems (such as Caterpillar VDAC), high speed crank angle-based data acquisition system (such as AVL Indimeter), Vector Canape, Horiba gaseous emissions analyzers, AVL 415 smoke meter, emissions sampling systems such as MKS FTIR, AVL i60, and BG particulate matter sampling.

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:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

• 401(k) savings plans*

• Health Savings Account (HSA)*

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

• Health Lifestyle Programs*

• Employee Assistance Program*

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

• Career Development*

• Incentive bonus*

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

Posting Dates:

October 8, 2025 - October 15, 2025

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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