Engineering Specialist - Battery + Charging Integration and Application at Caterpillar in Chillicothe, Illinois

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Career Area:
Engineering
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Job Summary

The Electrification + Energy Solutions Division - ePowertrain Solutions team is looking for a Battery + Charging Integration and Application Engineering Specialist to provide focused accountability for defining applications, driving collaboration around component development, and coordinating solution integration.

This role will work with our ePowertrain Technical Leads and Machine Business Division partners to document application requirements and with our battery and charging solution teams to select or develop solutions that integrate across multiple product lines.

They will work with these development partners to lead battery pack sizing, charger selection, and performance prediction. They will also work to define application interfaces and support NPI issue resolution. They will support product development activities throughout the NTI and NPI program phases, from concept selection through system validation and production readiness.



What you will do:

• Compile and cascade application requirements to component development teams
  
• Develop and maintain analytical tools for battery sizing and charger selection
  
• Advise on battery and charger selection and integration, looking for component re-use opportunities
  
• Follow and support battery and charger development activities including validation planning, issue resolution and delivery timing
  
• Understand and communicate battery and charger development status
  
• Support the creation of integration documents; including integration guides, power solution spec sheets, troubleshooting guides, A&I manuals, and OMMs
  
• Develop standard work (processes and tools) for power source and charging solution integration
  

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What you have:

Degree requirement: BS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (or related field)

Technical Engineering: Knowledge of high voltage electrical system integration or validation
Level Extensive Experience:

• Experience in battery system design or integration, electric machine design or systems integration

• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues

• Provides effective solutions for battery electric applications through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues
• Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to compile, analyze and record functional and business requirements to ensure the success of machine electrification projects.
• Advises others on the key benefits, drawbacks and rationale for engineering standards, policies and practices.

• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.



Product Design: Knowledge of HV battery and charging systems and electric powertrain component design and integration
Level Extensive Experience:
• 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.

Information Capture: Knowledge of the methods, channels and processes to obtain needed information; ability to identify, capture and document relevant business information in an auditable, organized, understandable and easily retrievable manner.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Ensures that all exceptions and unusual circumstances are properly captured and reviewed.
• Helps others understand how the recording of information impacts other business units.
• Provides guidance in documenting pertinent information.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Evaluates business impact of technical issues and the criticality and timing of needed resolution

• Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
• Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
• Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
• Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
• Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
• Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

Effective Communications: Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand.
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.
• Coaches others in open communication among project stakeholders.

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:
• Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach

• 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.

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Additional Information

• This role will be located in Mossville, IL
  
• Domestic relocation is available for this position
  
• Sponsorship is not available for this position
  

Relocation is available for this position.Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Posting Dates:
October 8, 2024 - October 21, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

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