Posted in Other about 4 hours ago.
Location: Chillicothe, Illinois
Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs. Join us.
Job Summary:
Caterpillar's Advanced Materials Technology Department is currently seeking an experienced Senior Metallurgical Engineer focused on metallurgical product development. In this role you will have an opportunity to analyze a wide variety of engine components providing design support, development, and the associated failure analysis investigations providing support to engine design groups.
What You Will Do:
• Providing product development technical and project management interface to management and internal clients.
• Performing data extraction/analysis, failure analysis and problem solving, application of simulation tools and methods, and practical application of theory and concepts.
• Testing products, analyzing test data and making modifications to ensure compliance with specifications and requirements.
• Building, testing and modifying product prototypes using working models or theoretical models.
• Lead material and material failure analysis investigations
• Develop metallurgical testing plans and analyze test results
• Create technical reports and/or procedures
• Effectively communicate results to our internal customers
• Provide technical support to metallurgical laboratory operations personnel.
• Support deviation requests, assurance of supply opportunities
• Support needs of product design, supplier development engineers, etc
• Provide recommendations to Internal customers
Education Requirement:
• Bachelor's degree in Materials or Metallurgical Engineering from an accredited college or university
What Skills You Will Have:
Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
• Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
• Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
• Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
• Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
• Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.
• Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.
Effective Communications:
• Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
Technical Excellence:
• 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 up-to-date 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 one's general area of technical competence.
• Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues.
Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies:
• Discusses the relevance of standards for a manufacturing environment.
• Researches process and product blueprints for own area.
• Describes and follows all policies, standards and procedures.
• Obtains documentation and information on standards and their usage.
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.
• Compares and contrasts alternative testing methodologies and tools.
• Matches testing methodology and tools to product being tested; develops test scenarios and scripts.
• Estimates time, effort and resources required for thorough testing.
Troubleshooting Technical Problems:
• Troubleshoots typical technical problems in a specific area.
• Participates in setting evaluation standards and criterion for troubleshooting.
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL.
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position
This position may require 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:
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