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
Designs, develops, builds, and implements new components, products, or technologies.
Responsibilities
- Creating new component level designs and resolves issues regarding the manufacturing or product operation. Ensuring design acceptance, manufacturing readiness, and validation.
- Participating in the adoption of new technologies and process improvements to achieve greater efficiency, cost reduction and quality improvement.
- Collaborating with all functional areas to provide a design solution that meets the requirements of the enterprise partners and customers.
- Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
Degree Requirement
Degree required
Skill Descriptors
Data Gathering & Analysis: Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes; ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion, goal, or judgment.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Follows proper data gathering and analysis processes and policies.
- Reports problems that arise in the data collection process.
- Participates in gathering and analyzing an organization's data based on requirements.
- Documents data from various sources and in various formats.
- Utilizes basic data collection and evaluation tools and techniques.
Active Learning: Understanding the necessity for continuous personal growth and learning; ability to gauge one's strengths, limitations and interests accurately, and use this knowledge for purposes of performance effectiveness self-development.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Knows how to access and use available learning and development resources.
- Describes the rationale, concept and need for continual learning.
- Identifies different tools, techniques, and ways of learning.
- Asks questions and seeks help when needed.
Collaborating: Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Demonstrates a basic understanding of the concept of collaborative processes.
- Explains the concept of collaboration as applicable to organizations.
- Provides examples of how collaboration has helped achieve organizational goals.
- Contrasts collaborative with competitive operating styles in organizations.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Describes non-verbal behaviors that influence the interpretation of the message.
- Cites examples of effective and ineffective communications.
- Explains the importance of effective business communication.
- Speaks/writes using correct language, mechanics, and gestures.
Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Explains basic concepts of time and priority management.
- Seeks guidance in detecting and addressing priority conflicts.
- States own business priorities.
- Describes team or unit priorities.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Uses a structured approach in analyzing and resolving technical problems.
- Seeks opportunities for continual learning to maintain technical competence in pursuit of technical excellence.
- Provides examples or case studies demonstrating technical excellence in actual business scenarios.
- Pursues, prepares for and assumes new technical assignments and challenges.
Design Engineering: Knowledge of designing and engineering products and systems; ability to use principles of mathematics, science, and engineering to develop, analyze, and improve product or system specifications, functionality, and performance.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Identifies design requirements based on customer needs and specifications.
- Collects and analyzes data to inform design decisions.
- Discusses design concepts with team members to gain feedback and insights.
- Seeks guidance from senior engineers to ensure design meets technical standards.
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 manageme