Senior Engineer Design-Fuel Tank SME
Senior Engineer Design-Fuel Tank SME
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EngineeringJob Description:
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Job Summary
Caterpillar is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Design Engineer to join our team focused on genset applications. This role is critical in delivering high-performance compliant and manufacturable solutions. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise in mechanical design and a collaborative mindset to work effectively with global teams
Role Definition
Designs develops builds and implements new products components or technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead design and development of fuel tanks ensuring compliance with Caterpillars engineering standards and regional regulations.
- Perform structural integrity for seismic conditions load distribution lifting and transportation loads.
- Develop and validate sheet metal designs ensuring manufacturability with knowledge of welding standards (heat load/warpage) and cost-effectiveness.
- Collaborate directly with global teams across the regions to align design requirements and project goals.
- Knowledge on Creo PLMs and supplier engagement is added advantage.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors/Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
- Proven experience in fuel tank design preferably for gensets or similar mechanical systems.
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 Extensive Experience:
- 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: 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 Extensive Experience:
- 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: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives projects groups or activities making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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 re-prioritize 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: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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.
Computer-Aided Design & Engineering: Knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce analyze simulate and test product design drafts.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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 top-down design vs. bottom-up design.
- Compares and contrasts uses of birds-eye views and worms-eye views.
Product Design - MFG: Knowledge of processes approaches tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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: Knowledge of product features; ability to design build and develop a new product technology or service from concept through to production.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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: This position required 5days working from office.
This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.
Posting Dates:
August 5 2025 - August 14 2025Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
