Hydraulic Installation Engineering Team Leader

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Job Description:

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Job Summary:

This opening is for a Hydraulic Installation Engineering Team Leader on the Hydraulic Installation Team covering both Large Wheel Loader and Underground - Hard Rock product lines. Hydraulic Installation comprises placement of hydraulic components (pumps motors valves cylinders etc.) and designing the routing connections between these components to create a functioning hydraulic system. Routing connections includes design of hose assemblies tube assemblies sheet metal fabrications and selection of hardware for retention and mounting.

As an Engineering Team Leader at Caterpillar you will have the opportunity to direct and participate in the design and development of new product concepts and complex engineering projects for release into production in a manner to ensure products provide superior performance durability quality and serviceability.

Responsibilities/Job Duties

Have thorough hydraulic installation expertise (or a related design field) on construction or mining equipment.
Provide technical expertise and mentoring of team members.
Coordinate with the manager to adjust resource levels to align with workload.
Collaborate with value chain partners to develop goals regarding New Product Introduction Continuous Product Improvement and Cost Reduction for the hydraulic installation team.
Improving tools and processes for the team and enterprise.

Degree Requirement:

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

Top Candidates Will have:

• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot hydraulic system preferred
• 6 Sigma experience and familiarity preferred

What Skills You Will have:

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.

Project Management:
Utilizes preferred tools techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.
Plans estimates staffs organizes and monitors significant projects.
Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.
Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team sponsors and clients.
Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.
Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.

Team Management:
Facilitates discussion of team goals roles needs and responsibilities.
Participates in defining the ground rules for individual and team responsibilities.
Manages a team to the successful completion of a project or task.
Recognizes the contribution of each and every team member publicly.
Leads team meetings to review progress and performance ensuring follow-up on previous decisions.

Requirements Analysis:
Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.
Ensures the successful completion of all major activities tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.
Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services including prototyping and use cases.
Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.
Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.
Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.

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.

Product Design and Development:
Develops organizational standards and processes in order 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:

The primary location for this position is Decatur IL

Domestic relocation assistance is available

This position may require 15% travel

Sponsorship is not available

Summary Pay Range:

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors job level market locationjob-related 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 part-time employees

Posting Dates:

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

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

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