Senior Engineer-Design

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Job Summary:

Join us as aSenior Design Engineerand become a key player in driving innovation and excellence within our organization. In this exciting role you will design develop and implement new technologies to enhance APQP tools processes and analytics. As theEnterprise Lead you will oversee the software applications used for Requirements Management (RM) Design and Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Control Plans. Your responsibilities will include maintaining these tools leading continuous improvement initiatives providing training and offering support to ensure seamless operations. You will also lead the deployment of dashboards to leverage data analytics to boost product development efficiencies. Your efforts will directly contribute to the satisfaction of thousands of users making a significant impact on our product development process. If you have a strong engineering background are wellversed in APQP processes and possess a passion for continuous improvement this is the perfect opportunity for you. Use your skills to drive customer satisfaction and be part of a dynamic team that values innovation and excellence.

What You Will Do:

• Ensure Optimal Performance: Maintain and enhance the functionality and performance of Enterprise Requirements Management FMEA and Control Plan software.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Gather feedback from internal customers to identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives enhancing overall customer satisfaction.
• Manage Projects Efficiently: Oversee project progress and costs communicate status updates with stakeholders and collaborate with functional areas to address and resolve any issues.
• Collaborate for Success: Work closely with the IT team and external vendors to resolve issues and deploy enhancements ensuring client success.
• Become a Subject Matter Expert: Develop expertise in the tools and processes becoming the goto person and subject matter expert (SME) for the enterprise.

Education Requirement:

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

What Skills You Will Have:

Analytical Thinking:

Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.

Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.

Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.

Quantifies the costs benefits risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.

Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.

Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

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.

Managing Multiple Priorities:

Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.

Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.

Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.

Works with or leads others to reprioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.

Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.

Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.

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.

ComputerAided Design & Engineering:

Coaches others on orthographic isometric and axonometric projections.

Presents complex products and systems graphically.

Performs manipulations on design objects such as changing projections and managing drawing layers.

Directs the matrix computations performed to transform objects in coordinate space.

Consults on benefits and drawbacks of topdown design vs. bottomup design.

Compares and contrasts uses of birdseye views and wormseye views.

Product Design MFG:

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.

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 proofofconcept 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

The location for this position is Mossville IL.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

This position will require less than 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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