Convergence Tech Lead - Engines at Caterpillar in Chillicothe, Illinois

Job Description:

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.

In this position, you will provide technical and strategic leadership across multi-functional teams that executes multiple workstreams focusing on modularity and commonality for Load and Haul Products which include Large Wheel Loaders, Articulated Trucks, Hard Rock Vehicles (Underground), and Wheel Tractor-Scrapers. You will play a key role in the technical leadership of the Engine and Engine attachment workstreams for project Convergence with a keen eye on Quality, Time, and Cost (Investments and Benefits). This role will be expected to work across multiple workstreams at the same time and collaborate with all four Load and Haul product teams. You will be responsible for identifying and finding improvement opportunities in this space that exist across each of the different products, designs, and processes and then executing strategies to address them.
We have a fabulous team that does some of the most exciting work at Caterpillar, and we can't wait for you to join the team.



Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Developing solutions for complex technical engineering problems and may be accountable for the design or improvement of complex systems including advanced concepts that align the product to the product line strategy.
• Understanding of customers' needs and product application as well as the competitive products, and understanding cost drivers.
• Keeping up-to-date with technology and developing increased technical breadth and/or depth.
• Design or lead design of component strategies and contribute to establish the division strategy for multiple product groups. Examples include: defining the program and machine configuration modularity strategy; evaluating new products and competitive products; communicating technology to customers, team members, suppliers, and other units; supporting and advising other engineers, managers, marketing personnel, customers, suppliers, and other process partners.

Degree Requirement:

Engineering Degree or equivalent experience desired

What Skills you will have:



Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

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 and devises alternative resolution strategies.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Conceptual Thinking: Knowledge of thinking and reasoning at a conceptual level; ability to identify the critical ideas and interdependencies among system elements that impact performance.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Presents only the most salient points, that is, those that have the largest potential impact.
• Links information patterns and trends to hypotheses.
• Synthesizes key issues, patterns and trends and summarizes the implications.
• Proposes alternative solutions when presented with problems or opportunities.
• Masters new concepts quickly.
• Simplifies complex ideas into easily understood concepts.

Engineering - MFG: Knowledge of processes, techniques and methods of engineering in a manufacturing environment; ability to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems and processes that safely realize a desired objective or invention.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Trains others on most components of engineering as related to manufacturing.
• Guides others on the application of manufacturing industry and organizational best engineering practices and explains their rationale.
• Facilitates the integration of engineering systems and applications for a manufacturing organization.
• Advises others on the key benefits, drawbacks and rationale for engineering standards, policies and practices.
• Monitors the effectiveness and efficiency of processes and improves engineering operations performance.
• Works with various complex engineering operations in a manufacturing environment.

Product Design - MFG: Knowledge of processes, approaches, tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Develops improvement plans for senior management and evaluates the outcome of the design against the functionality.
• Advises others on the development of multiple products and their functionality.
• Trains others on advanced tools and approaches of product design.
• Monitors the processes and procedures of a complex product design to ensure functional requirements are met.
• Evaluates feedback from customers and consults on functional weaknesses.
• Controls design and development costs of a proposed product through effective resource coordination.

Additional Information:

The primary location for this position is Mossville, IL (AC)

Domestic relocation assistance is available

Travel will be up to 15%

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)

*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

Final details:

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Posting Dates:
October 3, 2024 - October 16, 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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