Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World
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Description
Development of Electromechanical Control Systems using quantitative methods to solve problems for internal and external Caterpillar customers through integrating mechanical and electronic components and systems through control algorithm implementation and optimization using data from sensors, on-board models, and product analytics. To successfully lead a team to solve a technical problem or create critical component(s) and systems or processes within budget, while meeting the requirements of the internal or external customer.
Job Duties
For Caterpillar, digital means using technology to extract data from our machines and engines and transform it into valuable recommendations or -insights,- to help customers make better, more informed decisions and help Caterpillar make robust products with the lowest total ownership cost. Our products generate and process large amounts of data from sensors, on-board models, and control algorithms in real-time creating real-world machine usage information. The integrated mechanical and electronic control systems and associated control algorithms and/or embedded controls or software that enable performance improvements for products, and enable machine information that is highly useful for product development and product improvement once analyzed, modeled, aggregated, and mined for actionable insight using product analytics.
The team leader role accounts for up to 50% of this assignment the remainder of the time, the incumbent acts as an individual contributor, bringing technical expertise to the project as well. Team leaders must manage their own development, continuously learning through experience new business knowledge and skill. Program/project management and strong organizational skills are critical.
Interpersonal, leadership, and strong communication skills are required. Significant challenges of this position are working with people: enhancing the team's creativity; facilitating the team's cooperation; clearly communicating the requirements and tasks, while gaining input from the team on refinement of same; translating both verbal and non-verbal information from the customer, management, and team members.
Project team leaders are the spokesperson for the team in meetings with multiple levels of management and with the customer. Team leader must develop good networks to enable them to obtain resources and cooperation needed and remove roadblocks so that they can insure the success of their team. Project team leaders may be called upon to give input to performance reviews for team members. Ever increasing skills in the role-based competencies of Managing Vision & Purpose, Decision Quality, and Negotiating are required.
The incumbent would set strategy at the project level. The project would solve problems for a single technology, component, product, or process.
Project scope will vary up to a moderate technical focus on a component, product, or process and will require incumbent to broaden business understanding. Although jobs/projects will have a relatively narrow focus, understanding and defining their benefits to the customer is crucial.
Therefore, the ability to draw upon foundational product development skills such as conceptual design, development of product and/or process, data analysis & extraction, failure resolution & prevention, and requirements management is required; as well as, ever increasing skill in technical project management, development of product, internal and external requirements management, and cost-value management.
Team leaders must manage their own development, continuously learning through experience, an understanding the customers' needs and application of the product or process, as well as keeping up with emerging technologies such as Matlab/Simulink, co-simulation, neural networks, adaptive control and self-learning machines. Experience in more than one engineering function is desirable, and experience in more than one business or service unit would be helpful.
Project team leaders are accountable for pulling together a team of individuals, who may or may not have worked together before, to solve a technical problem or create critical component(s) and systems or process. Team leaders may or may not select the team and the job/project deadline. Incumbent will be expected to pull input from the whole team to formulate decisions and develop the output for the job/project. Key areas of responsibility encountered in the role of team leader are plan and manage the job/project; manage the business/financial aspects of the job or project; provide a supportive work environment for the team; mentor, coach, and develop others; and manage one's own development. The team leader will interact with people from diverse technical and cultural backgrounds. Incumbent will work within the team and beyond the team with contractors, hourly, salaried and management employees, suppliers, customers, and individuals working in many Caterpillar organizations.
Decisions may affect the job/project team, the division or business unit, suppliers, both internal and external customers, and the market. Decisions may impact the entire product, process or factory, warranty, sales, and customers' perceptions, and can cause an evolutionary change in technology. Expectations demand that jobs/projects be completed on time, independent of the hours required. Acknowledging trade-offs between time, resources and quality and raising the customers' and management's awareness of those trade-offs is essential.
Basic Qualifications
Requires a Bachelor's degree in an accredited Engineering or Computer Science curriculum plus at least 8 years of control systems engineering experience, or an advanced degree in an Engineering or Computer Science curriculum plus at least 5 years of control systems engineering experience.
Top Candidates will also have
Electrification experience
Electronics experience
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position will require
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
Employee benefit details
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 a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details
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