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.
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs. Join us.
Job Summary:
The engineer who will fill in this position will support Caterpillar engine and drivetrain VPD (Virtual Product Development), NPI (New Product Introduction), and Continuous Product Improvement (CPI) issues by performing structural/thermal/electromagnetic Finite Element Analysis (FEA) along with dynamic and performance simulation. This engineer is a key member of a focused team developing simulation technologies in the area of Tribology. As an engineer on the team, you will develop and apply advanced Finite Element Methods and other simulation technologies to model tribological contacts. We are developing a range of modelling tools and processes to assess surface durability and support product development decision making. The engineer will improve and extend these simulation tools and processes.
A primary responsibility is to take on a leadership role for developing power system analysis processes and tools in specific areas related to power system durability and performance, developing finite element models for tribological problems to predict friction, wear and other surface durability issue, and executing plans to achieve technical requirements, schedules and contract commitments.
Other responsibilities include, performing necessary analysis and initiating ideas; evaluating new products, processes, or systems; communicating results to customers, suppliers, team members; supporting other engineers; providing best actionable recommendations and solutions.
What You Will Do:
Primary job responsibilities may include applications of power system structural simulations to influence early product concepts and design decisions, to improve the existing products by resolving engine/drivetrain structure issues and to develop or improve simulation related processes and technologies.
Other areas of responsibility encountered in this role may include any or all the following: perform necessary 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; support other engineers, managers, marketing personnel, customers and suppliers.
The engineer must manage his/her own development, continuously learning through experience and staying abreast of technology changes. Learning will focus on methods, processes and systems applied to engineering functions, key engineering skills, practical application of theory, communications and building a knowledge of Caterpillar's products, suppliers, and customers.
- Collaborate with customers and leadership to scope and execute projects that meet the needs of the business
- Accountable for delivering timely, high-quality simulation and analysis impacting products/processes and providing clear recommendations to stakeholders
- Partner with design, manufacturing, supply chain and test to robustly deliver new products and improve validation processes
- Keep up to date on new technologies and drive continuous improvement to established techniques
Education Requirement:
- Requires a Ph.D. degree in an accredited Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, or Materials Science curriculum.
What Skills You Will Have:
Process Management:
- Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
- Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.
- Creates process flow or workflow diagrams.
- Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
- Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.
Accuracy and Attention to Detail:
- Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
- Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
- 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:
- Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
- Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
- Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
- 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.
Effective Communications:
- 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.
Problem Solving:
- 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 and devises alternative resolution strategies.
- Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
Technical Excellence:
- 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.
- 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 in one's general area of technical competence.
- In-depth understanding of contact mechanics, material behavior, thermal transport, and fluid mechanics
- Have a strong background in finite element methods
- Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues.
- Holds experience and expertise on surrogate model based on reduced order modeling or machine learning/deep learning techniques in the context of finite element analysis, Python programming, Machine learning/deep learning
- Be proficient in ABAQUS, Hypermesh, Simlab, or other commercial FE software packages
- Has skills and experiences on static stress analysis, heat transfer, nonlinear material and large deformation, contact/impact, dynamics, and thermal mechanical FEA analysis using ABAQUS or ANSYS
Project Management:
- Identifies project management tools and requirements within own function.
- Describes the key objectives, phases and deliverables of a current project.
- Explains the concepts of phase, activity, task, and deliverable.
- Gives examples of critical paths in projects.
Computer-Aided Design & Engineering:
- Has Creo skills sufficient for FE modal preparation
- Generates specifications for parts or components with CAD software.
- Reuses design components via reusable libraries following standard procedures.
- Uses CAD to perform basic drafting such as wire frames, solid objects and array of objects.
- Performs routine changes to computerized schematics or drawings.
- Creates views of objects in 2 and 3 dimensions; creates perspective drawings and orthogonal views.
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL.
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position may require up to 20% travel.
Visa sponsorship will be available for this position.
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)
*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.
Final details
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Relocation is available for this position.
Visa sponsorship available for eligible applicants.
Posting Dates:
September 24, 2024 - October 8, 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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