Heat Treat Controls & Project Engineer at Caterpillar in East Peoria, 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.

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:

Caterpillar's Advanced Materials Technology (AMT) division supports the company's heat treat manufacturing equipment, processes, and technological development around the world. AMT is currently seeking an experienced heat treat Controls & Project engineer to deliver world-class support to our business unit customers. In this role you will have an opportunity to provide the technical expertise necessary to develop and implement complex manufacturing operations and support sophisticated machines and related equipment. The Incumbent bears primary responsibility for equipment safety and reliability, process parameter conformance, integrity of machine data, and technological innovation and will also be seen as an expert in a wide array of fields - including safety standard conformance, electrical design, controls architecture, programming, and networking.

What You Will Do:

• Lead various automation & robotic integration projects
• Lead new technology initiatives on industrial robotics, networking, and process control
• Design, install, and validate electrical architecture for new and existing manufacturing equipment
• Create specifications in support of equipment build and upgrades
• Implement, maintain, and update furnace equipment safety systems critical to operations
• Troubleshooting of database and reporting platforms
• Troubleshooting machine programming, and material handling/robotics
• Collect and report production from various systems to improve quality and process efficiencies
• Implement and maintain cyber security practices to protect intellectual property and machine assets
• Participate on many projects concurrently and with cross-functional teams
• Develop project scope to address business challenges and opportunities.
• Overseeing project progress and costs; communicating status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; addressing and resolving problems.
• Directing project staffing; motivating and developing project team and team members.
• Manages multiple or complex engineering projects involving multiple functions, organizations, products, or value chains.

Education Requirement:

• Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Electrical, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.

What Skills You Will Have:

Products and Services:

• Oversees development activities for multiple products or product lines.

• Advises colleagues on implementation and operational considerations.
• Coaches others on key factors that differentiate offerings from that of competition.
• Develops procedures for product planning, development, and delivery cycles.
• Promotes understanding of multiple product and service groups and their interdependencies.
• Monitors regulatory and environmental issues and considerations.

Technical Excellence:

• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.

• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Influencing Through Expertise:

• Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand.

• Exhibits depth and breadth of knowledge, skill, and experience in the relevant field.
• Provides relevant, timely and objective subject matter/process expertise and key insight regarding multiple client business areas and affiliated fields.
• Provides others with information, opportunities, or resources to develop their skills in expertise.
• Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking evidentiary support or impact.
• Coaches others to enhance their proficiency regarding the tenets, practices, and examples of the 'trusted advisor' credential.

Project Management:

• Champions organization's project management methodology, tools, and techniques.

• Manages multiple high-risk, high-cost projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Coaches others in open communication among project stakeholders.
• Monitors major projects for critical path and actual status versus planned.
• Consults on project planning and management of high-risk, high-impact projects.
• Monitors industry for fresh approaches and tools for project management.

Troubleshooting Technical Problems:

• Evaluates business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution.

• Resolves difficult or high-impact equipment and systems problems.
• Monitors machine performance and history; addresses excessive maintenance or repair needs.
• Coaches others how to resolve integration or communications problems in multi-vendor environment.
• Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach.
• Uses advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems.
• Possesses experience with the following:
  • All versions of RSLogix and FactoryTalk View Studio
  • Fanuc and ABB Robots
  • Stratix ethernet switches, and Ethernet/IP protocol
  • Oracle and SQLServer databases
  • Failure mode and effects analysis for industrial equipment (RIA/ANSI)
• Knowledge of electrical safety systems, controls and network architecture, as well as industrial networking

Product Design and Development:

• Develops organizational standards and processes to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.

• Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.
• Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.
• Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.
• Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.
• Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.

Additional Information

This location for this position is East Peoria, IL

Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.

This position may require up to 10% travel.

Visa sponsorship is 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:
October 8, 2024 - October 15, 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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