Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
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 Description
As a member of the Spark Ignited Gas Engine Performance team within LPSD, the successful candidate will be serve as an experienced individual contributor, working in a fast paced environment to develop a Caterpillar engine system for use in applications such as Electric Power, Gas Compression, Marine, Petroleum and other Spark Ignited applications. The engineer will be responsible for ensuring that the engine system meets program requirements with respect to performance and controls, emissions and software. They will be required to use simulation, analysis, and engineering judgment to meet program deliverables.
Specific responsibilities include :

• Engine performance requirements development
• Engine performance calibration, mapping, and validation
• Reporting at Design reviews, Gateway/Stakeholder reviews, and TRL reviews
• Field Follow support

Specific Tasks include:

• Engine System Physical modeling
• Engine System behavioral simulation and analysis
• Test plan generation
• Engine Performance/altitude/transient analysis

This involves working to develop performance requirements to meet program deliverables, and ensuring that performance and controls algorithms are capable of meeting those requirements. This includes combustion and system level simulation using GT-Power, engine performance development mapping in a performance cell and validation that final software is capable of meeting program deliverables from both a performance and emissions standpoint. Support of field follow engines is also required to ensure that the product is meeting the customers requirements in a field setting.
The individual must be able to work as part of a team, and coordinate with controls experts, aftertreatment specialists, platform engineers, NPI coordinators, and many others in a fast paced development and validation environment. They must have a systems engineering focus, and be motivated to meet/exceed customer expectations. A strong understanding of spark ignited combustion and system interactions is required. Support of currently available spark ignited gas products is also required.
Job requirements
Required Education:

• BS degree in an accredited Engineering or Engineering Technology curriculum

Top Candidates will also have:

• Experience in Spark Ignited Natural gas rating calibration and validation
• Relevant Caterpillar engine performance development and validation experience.
• Experience in the simulation/modeling/analysis of natural gas, dual fuel or diesel engine systems and or sub-systems
• The ability to work/lead multiple projects simultaneously and to make sound priority decisions

Additional Information:

• Location of this position is in Mossville, IL OR Lafayette, IN.
• Relocation assistance is available for this position.
• This position may require less than 10% travel.
• This position will close on 11/5/21 at 11:59 PM.

Employee benefit details
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 a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details
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This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers .
Relocation is available for this position.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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