Electrical Project Engineer - Switchgear Design

About EPD

Caterpillars Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions parts and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe including providing backup power to hospitals providing emergency power when natural disasters strike and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers municipalities and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business our team has worldclass expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. Were committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better more sustainable world for future generations!

Caterpillar Switchgear part of the Electric Power Division currently has an opening for an Electrical Design Engineer located in Alpharetta Georgia. In this role you will design develop and build Low and Medium voltage switchgear for generator paralleling applications.

What you will do:

• Interpret customer specifications and drawings and apply them while considering industry regulations and NEC UL 508 UL 891UL 1558 UL MV CSA 222 and ANSI requirements

• Create bill of materials in ERP system

• Provide direction to purchasing and procurement

• Provide direction to CAD designers to create wiring and assembly drawings

• Support production during equipment manufacturing

• Write and validate PLC code for generator control systems interfacing with various communication protocols

Degree Requirement:

• Degree in Engineering

What You Will Have:

Analytical Thinking: Extensive experience and 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.

• 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.

• 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 conclusion

Effective Communication: Working knowledge and 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.

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.

• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.

• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.

• Looks for and considers nonverbal cues from individuals and groups.

Managing Multiple Priorities: Working knowledge of effective selfmanagement practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives projects groups or activities making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.

• 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: Working experience and knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

• 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.

Product Design MFG: Extensive experience and knowledge of processes approaches tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design.

• Participates in the conception process of a manufacturing product vision.

• Collects and analyzes customer and market requirements

• Utilizes design methods to implement the construction of a new design model.

• Uses automated tools to design or modify the design of a product.

• Assists in the testing and refinement of a new product design.

Product Design and Development: Working knowledge of product features; ability to design build and develop a new product technology or service from concept through to production.

• Communicates with professionals to understand various requirements of product design.

• Tests and evaluates alternative means of production being considered for use.

• Uses automated tools to design or modify the design of a product.

• Assists in building a complex prototype of product

Top Candidates Will Also Have:

• Electrical engineering degree

• PLC experience with Schneider and/or Allen Bradley

• Experienced with UL508A control enclosure design

• Power Engineering and MultiFunction Relay Programming/ Operation

Additional Information

• The location for this position is Alpharetta GA

• Domestic relocation assistance is not available for this position

• This position may require 10% travel

About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the worlds leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment offhighway diesel and natural gas engines industrial gas turbines and dieselelectric locomotives. For nearly 100 years weve been helping customers build a better more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reducedcarbon future. Our innovative products and services backed by our global dealer network provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.