Senior Metallurgical Engineer

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Job Description:

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Job Summary:

Caterpillars Advanced Materials Technology Department is currently seeking an experienced Senior Engineer focused on metallurgical product development production support and capital project management. In this role you will have an opportunity to support operations lead capital projects and analyze a wide variety of components providing design support and development on a diverse customer portfolio supporting products produced at the Decatur manufacturing facility.

What You Will Do:

Lead material analysis investigations
Develop metallurgical testing plans and analyze test results
Create technical reports and/or procedures
Support Heat Treat Manufacturing Operations
Lead manage and support capital projects
Effectively communicate results to our internal customers
Provide technical support to metallurgical laboratory operations personnel.
Support Met Lab process controls and compliance for certifications and audits.

Education Requirement:

Bachelors degree in Materials or Metallurgical Engineering from an accredited college or university

What Skills You Will Have:

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.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decisionmaking process.
Identifies obtains and organizes relevant data and ideas.
Participates in documenting data ideas players stakeholders and processes.
Recognizes clarifies and prioritizes concerns.
Assists in assessing risks benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Effective Communications:
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.

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 uptodate 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 ones general area of technical competence.
Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues.

Project Management:
Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
Under guidance plans and estimates simple projects.
Assists in detailed project plans including cost schedule and resource requirements.
Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
Produces standard project status reports.

Manufacturing Standards Procedures and Policies:
Discusses the relevance of standards for a manufacturing environment.
Researches process and product blueprints for own area.
Describes and follows all policies standards and procedures.
Obtains documentation and information on standards and their usage.

Product Testing:
Coordinates execution of test plans including resources strategy schedules processes and tools.
Collaborates with design team to ensure testing considerations are incorporated into system design.
Recommends tools and techniques for automating simplifying and enhancing product testing.
Compares and contrasts alternative testing methodologies and tools.
Matches testing methodology and tools to product being tested; develops test scenarios and scripts.
Estimates time effort and resources required for thorough testing.

Troubleshooting Technical Problems:
Documents common hardware software and communications problems and likely resolutions.
Troubleshoots typical technical problems in a specific area.
Works with vendorspecific diagnostic guides tools and utilities to discover application problems.
Adheres to standard troubleshooting procedures to ensure effectiveness of resolutions.
Participates in setting evaluation standards and criterion for troubleshooting.

Top Candidates will also have

6 years of relevant work experience
Advanced Materials or Metallurgical Engineering Degree
Prior Failure Analysis Experience with Ferrous and NonFerrous materials
Production heat treat support experience
Excellent communication interpersonal and collaboration skills.
Experience with component design and/or supporting manufacturing operations
Experience with Heat Treatment Processes
Experience in creating technical reports publications and/or procedures.
Strong Analytical Skills
Selfstarter accountable and customer driven with strong teamwork and organizational skills.
Ability to work multiple projects concurrently

Additional Information

The location for this position is Decatur IL.
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position
This position may require up to 10% travel.

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 longterm 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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