Certification Engineer

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Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar yourejoining 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 dontjust 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.

We are seeking a dedicated and detailoriented Certification Project Specialist to join our team. This role is crucial in ensuring our products meet all necessary certification standards and regulations.

Role Definition:
Designs develops builds and implements new components products or technologies.

Job Description:The Certification Engineer will play a key role in managing certification projects coordinating with external certification bodies and supporting the engineering team. This position requires a proactive individual with strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently.

Key Responsibilities:

• Certification Projects:Extensive involvement in certification projects including creating technical files for fuel modules fire cabinets PED manifolds and Catch4 projects.
• Documentation:Create and manage data sheets data plates templates certified device lists and collect certificates for electrical components.
• Coordination:Coordinate and schedule inspectors for onsite inspections update third parties if schedules change and work with inspectors to certify projects.
• External Communication:Serve as a key point of contact for external certification bodies such as CSA DNV and ATEX/PED.
• Support:Provide support to other team members and assist with documentation requests from PMs Quality and suppliers/buyers.
• Training and Backup:Train and serve as backup for MEs and assist with Pegasus/LN.
• BIQ Coordination:Produce monthly engineering metrics as the BIQ Coordinator.

Responsibilities
Creating new component level designs and resolves issues regarding the manufacturing or product operation. Ensuring design acceptance manufacturing readiness and validation.
Participating in the adoption of new technologies and process improvements to achieve greater efficiency cost reduction and quality improvement.
Support definition of engineering procedures to make the product or process more reliable efficient and costeffective. Understanding functional requirements and translating into detail design documents.
Collaborating with all functional areas to provide a design solution that meets the requirements of the enterprise partners and customers.
Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering Computer Science or Materials Science curriculum.

Skill Descriptors
Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Basic Understanding:
Names specific tools or techniques that can be used to support the analytical thinking process.
Describes specific software applications or products used for business analytics.
Gives examples of how analytical thinking has been used to resolve problems.
Helps others research and learn more about business analytics tools and applications.

Collaborating: Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level Working Knowledge:
Demonstrates experience participating in productive collaborative processes.
Under guidance initiates collaborative meetings.
Assists in communicating shared goals with diverse groups and parties.
Helps promote collaboration across generations functions regions and levels.
Helps solve business problems and meet business goals through collaborative processes.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decisionmaking process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Basic Understanding:
Explains characteristics and steps in an effective decisionmaking process.
Identifies issues and communicates with others when a decision needs to be made.
Names decision makers in own environment and cites examples of past decisions.
Describes types of decisions incumbent may and may not make in own job or function.

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 Basic Understanding:
Describes nonverbal behaviors that influence the interpretation of the message.
Cites examples of effective and ineffective communications.
Explains the importance of effective business communication.
Speaks/writes using correct language mechanics and gestures.

Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective selfmanagement practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives projects groups or activities making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Level Working Knowledge:
Recognizes changing demands and priorities; validates changes with management.
Obtains information about how current assignments contribute to organizational goals.
Completes current work according to assigned priorities.
Responds to daytoday operational priorities while still making progress on project work.
Performs at least 23 concurrent activities without reducing productivity.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Basic Understanding:
Uses a structured approach in analyzing and resolving technical problems.
Seeks opportunities for continual learning to maintain technical competence in pursuit of technical excellence.
Provides examples or case studies demonstrating technical excellence in actual business scenarios.
Pursues prepares for and assumes new technical assignments and challenges.

Design Engineering: Knowledge of designing and engineering products and systems; ability to use principles of mathematics science and engineering to develop analyze and improve product or system specifications functionality and performance.
Level Working Knowledge:
Assists in the development of design concepts and solutions.
Participates in design reviews and provides constructive feedback.
Utilizes design software and tools to create and modify designs.
Documents design decisions and communicates them to relevant stakeholders.
Follows established design standards and procedures to ensure quality and consistency.

Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design build and develop a new product technology or service from concept through to production.
Level Basic Understanding:
Summarizes the overall process for developing a new product or service for the organization.
Identifies the organizational business units that have input into the development process.
Collects information on current and prior design and development successes and failures in the organization.
Describes the basic tools used for design and development.

Minimum Requirements:

Essential qualifications and experiences such as High School Diploma or Equivalent. High School Diploma or Equivalent

Skills and Programs:

Specific skills machines or computer programs needed. Strong proficiency in the use of office applications specifically Outlook Teams Word Excel and PowerPoint is required. Additionally due to the documentation requirements of the role usage of PDF authoring tools for signatures is required.

Desired Qualifications:

• Expertise:Growing expertise in certification projects and the ability to work independently.
• Communication:Strong communication skills and the ability to coordinate with external certification bodies.
• Technical Skills:Proficiency in creating technical files data sheets and managing certification documentation.
• Organizational Skills:Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple projects and schedules.
• Attention to Detail:High attention to detail in inspecting and installing data plates and ensuring correct serial numbers.
• Team Support:Ability to provide support to team members and assist with various documentation requests.
• Training:Experience in training and serving as backup for other roles.

Summary Pay Range:

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors job level market locationjobrelated knowledge skills individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility terms and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical dental and vision benefits*

• Paid time off plan (Vacation Holidays Volunteer etc.*

• 401(k) savings plans*

• Health Savings Account (HSA)*

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

• Health Lifestyle Programs*

• Employee Assistance Program*

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

• Career Development*

• Incentive bonus*

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to parttime employees

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

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