Posted in Other 24 days ago.
Location: Clayton, North Carolina
Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
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Job Summary:
This position within the Validation and Verification team of Caterpillar IC&S will support product development at the Clayton Machine Development Center by testing energy application software (diesel engine or electrification), electrical systems, prototype and pilot hardware and engine-to-machine interactions. You will serve as an individual contributor executing validation activities that support and enhance Caterpillar's product performance, durability, reliability, quality, and serviceability. This role will be responsible for performing on-machine engine software and validation activities for both NPI product development and current product enhancements/CPI resolution.
What You Will Do:
You will work closely with the engine application systems team and several process partners (engine platform teams, machine product groups, product support) to perform engine software checkouts/validation for IPSD-M and to provide machine testing/system troubleshooting/engine rework support to BCP, Sandford and Caterpillar Paving.
• Plan and execute testing of electronic and software systems prior to delivery of software to the engine factory or updates to the field. Validate that new products and updated products meet engineering requirements.
• Apply knowledge of engines, electrical systems and mechanical systems to perform troubleshooting of malfunctioning components and systems for machine engines.
• Collaborate in cross-functional global teams that include other engineers, technologists, mechanics, instrumentation technicians, operators, and logisticians in a collaborative team environment to complete complex tasks safely, with the highest quality, while meeting project schedules and budgets.
• Learn the fundamentals of machine equipment operation through on-the-job training.
• Verification/Validation Engineers in this role are fully engaged in both electrical and mechanical systems activity through a technical awareness of the components, systems and software which they test.
• Must demonstrate strong problem-solving skills.
• Analyze test results and summarize conclusions.
• Communicate & track product development issues.
• Communicate technical information to team members and other business units.
• Analyzing the requirements of electronic systems and components based on customer satisfaction, making and adjusting design plans accordingly. products can work alone and/or are compatible with other systems.
• Collaborating with colleagues in electronics and other engineering branches.
• Complying with safety regulations throughout the development process.
• Experience with engine system integration, and/or A&I or product support field experience.
• Must demonstrate hands-on mechanical experience, familiarity and comfort with engine disassembly and assembly.
• Must demonstrate hands-on electrical/electronic system troubleshooting expertise.
• Routinely works in challenging environmental conditions, including heat, humidity, extreme cold and dust.
• Requires a deep-rooted diesel engine technical and systems expertise as well as EV skills and experience.
• Travel routinely to other test facility, specifically Caterpillar Paving, Minneapolis Mn to provide on-site support. Will also need to remotely support between visits.
Education Requirement:
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other accredited engineering curriculum.
What Skills You Will Have:
Products and Services :
• Obtains information about product and service linkages with other products and services elsewhere in organization.
• Explains current status, delivery alternatives and announced updates to products and services.
• Summarizes key features of major products or services in own unit.
Standard Operating Procedures:
• Designs a standard operating procedure, detailing steps and activities, within a department; develops procedures, processes, and controls to implement and execute policy requirements.
• Optimizes complex SOPs according to changes in organizational procedures.
• Monitors the relationship between SOPs and performance improvement (e.g. quality improvement).
• Integrates best practices into the design, implementation and evaluation of organizational SOPs.
• Evaluates the causes behind deviations from and modifications to existing SOPs.
Accuracy and Attention to Detail:
• Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
• Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
• Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
• Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
• Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.
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.
• Demonstrated capability and passion for software testing, troubleshooting, mechanical repair and problem resolution.
Effective Communications:
• 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.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, manage change, and communicate effectively.
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.
Electronics Engineering - HTH:
• Researches considerations and tools used for converting schematics to layouts.
• Works with engineering electronic components or devices.
• Constructs circuit schematics; explains the interconnections between all electrical components.
• Addresses common issues and considerations in manufacturing electronic products.
• Implements processes and activities associated with the design and testing of electronic circuits.
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.
• Estimates time, effort and resources required for thorough testing.
TOP CANDIDATES WILL ALSO HAVE:
• Experience with SuperComm 2, Cadet, Caterpillar Electronic Technician (CAT ET), CANape and electrical system troubleshooting is highly desired.
• In-depth knowledge of engine and engine aftertreatment system components and control strategies (e.g. DPF and SCR components, common rail fuel injection and ERG systems).
• Experience with engine system integration, and/or A&I or product support field experience
• Demonstrated expertise in operation and fault modes of electronic sensors, actuators & other inductive loads, classic controls methods (e.g. PID), communication networks (e.g. J1939/CAN/Ethernet), test automation, and instrumentations & data collection tools
• Experience in product development, engine performance/platform experience, machinery and equipment, vehicle testing, or mechanical components and systems
• Strong communication skills and a demonstrated ability to build positive working relationships across global cultures with coworkers.
• An eye for detail and ability to spot emerging issues or failures in components and systems.
• Self-starter with strong computer skills with the ability to multitask different software applications simultaneously to optimize and deliver desired results under challenging requirements
• Hands on mechanical experience, familiarity and comfort with engine disassembly and assembly
• Hands on electrical/electronic system troubleshooting expertise.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, manage change, and communicate effectively. Demonstrated capability and passion for software testing, troubleshooting, mechanical repair and problem resolution
• Requires a deep-rooted diesel engine technical and systems expertise as well as EV skills and experience.
• Willingness to routinely work in challenging environmental conditions, including heat, humidity, extreme cold and dust.
• Willingness to travel routinely to other test facility, specifically Caterpillar Paving, Minneapolis MN to provide on-site support. Will also need to remotely support between visits.
Additional Information
The primary location is the Clayton Machine Development Center (CMDC), in Clayton, NC with one day a week spent at the Caterpillar CTL facility in Sanford, NC (Incumbent will be required to provide support at both BCP facilities on a weekly basis)
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
Travel for this position (in addition to Clayton and Sanford support) will be up to 30%.
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:
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