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's Resource Industries Operations and Products (RIOP) Division is seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Senior Performance/Validation Engineer for Electric Rope shovel (ERS). The role involves collaborating with multifunctional teams to define technical and performance requirements as well as validation plans. The individual selected for this position will serve as a technical expert for ERS machine and will be a significant contributor to the development of Electrical Rope Shovels.
What you will do:
- Establishing technical and performance requirements and specifications for new products and features, including failsafe strategy.
- Engaging with internal and external partners to define and gain acceptance for key requirements and specifications.
- Communicating requirements to component, system, and software teams.
- Collaborating with the Virtual Product Development (VPD) team to develop and deploy processes, tools, and technologies for performance simulations and analysis.
- Using VPD tools to conduct concept feasibility analysis/testing and recommend the optimal path for the product
- Developing validation test plans to confirm performance requirements are achieved.
- Serving as a liaison between product group and customer for field validation.
- Taking responsibility for overall performance acceptance criteria for the product.
- Overseeing the ERS Application Profile and Composite Workcycle.
- Staying up to date on competitor product offerings and driving continuous improvement for the product.
Technical Excellence: Strong technical leadership skills with extensive experience in the performance and application of mining machines. Extensive understanding of complex engineering concepts and applications, electro-hydraulic system design and/or test, and control theory.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Provides effective technical solutions to routine functional challenges via sound technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Effectively performs the technical job aspects, continuously building knowledge and keeping up to date on technical and procedural job components.
• Knowledge of Electric Rope Shovels, Draglines or other mining equipment including applications, configurations, and systems.
• Applies technical operating and project standards based on achieving excellence in delivered products, technologies, and services.
• Applies current procedures and technologies to help resolve technical issues on ERS and DGL products
• Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues.
Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of performance 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.
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, devises alternative resolution strategies, and determines validation requirements.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
Effective Communications: Strong communication, leadership, project management, and business management skills. Direct work with internal process partners, suppliers, customers, and dealers requires the incumbent to demonstrate skill in negotiation, building consensus, and achieving compromise.
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.
• Ability to communicate and interact with multiple CPPD teams, business units, dealers, and customers.
Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.
• Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.
• Productively balances speed and accuracy.
• Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.
• Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
• Employs techniques for motivating employees to meet or exceed accuracy goals.
Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Helps others learn the tools and techniques for process value analysis.
• Carries out process evaluation, diagnosis, and optimization.
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of a major process flow, its components, and issues.
• Synchronizes the efforts of, and resource requirements for, several teams within a process.
• Makes the business case for new processes, including their cost-benefit ratios.
• Possesses knowledge of tools and techniques for designing and implementing new processes.
Top candidates will also have:
Prior experience in product support, Virtual Product Development, and machine validation.
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 charts, PMO plans or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
• Under guidance, plans and estimates projects.
• Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements.
• Obtains information from stakeholders as appropriate during all aspects of a project.
• Produces project status reports.
Engineering Tools: Knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized engineering programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate, and test design concepts using FEA and CFD programs as well as tools like DYNASTY, C-Link, Validation Readiness Tool, Siemens Step 7.
Education Requirement: Bachelor's degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
Additional Information:
The primary location for this position is Tucson, AZ.
Domestic relocation assistance is available.
This position may require 15 - 20 % travel.
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)
Final details:
Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application - please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.
For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media
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:
September 4, 2024 - September 18, 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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