.**Career Area**:Engineering**:**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.**Job Purpose**:To direct and participate in the design and development of new Cabs Structures and complex engineering projects for release to production in a manner to ensure products provide superior performance, durability, quality, and serviceability. Also provide support for Maintenance of existing products and participate in Continuous Product Improvement (CPI).**Job Duties**:Prepares concept, design, development, and feasibility studies of complex engineering projects. Delegates portions of the project to other engineers and leads and coordinates the design, analysis, and computer simulation effort. Prepares development plans and is responsible for meeting scheduled dates.Evaluates, defines, and resolves design and manufacturing problems. Travels when required to foreign and domestic plants, dealerships, and customer job sites to solve design problems or to field test locations to evaluate a product improvement. Uses technical expertise and product knowledge to play the leadership role in the problem resolution process when interfacing with Test and Evaluation, Service, Plant personnel, suppliers, and consultants. Works with manufacturability teams resolving problems with manufacturing and SPC (Statistical Process Controls) to find the root causes and provide a permanent action.Keeps abreast of latest technological advancements and prepares design concepts and develops unique product design features the Company often patents to gain competitive advantage. Travels worldwide to suppliers, production plants, dealerships, customer job sites, and field test locations related to the development of engineering projects and problem resolution.**Background/Experience**:Requires a bachelor's degree in an accredited Engineering.2 years of experience in Welded Fabrications or a master's degree in engineering, or Materials Science.Requires strong leadership ability and effective communications skills in English.Incumbent must be able to demonstrate the ability to gain a mastery of complex engineering and manufacturability concepts. Must have a good mechanical aptitude with ability to develop product concepts in 3D Software.**Final Details**:The Caterpillar Code of Conduct states that we will select and place employees based on their qualifications for the job to be performed, without regard to race, religion, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or disability