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
To direct and participate in the validation of complex engine and gen-set systems for release to production in a manner to ensure products provide superior performance, durability, quality, and serviceability.
Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• The test planning and execution of Engine Systems, sub-systems and components. This includes participation in the upstream DFMEA development, developing DVP&R's, coordinating testing both inside and outside of Caterpillar, and conveying results and challenges to the broader team
• The incumbent will help L3 design engineers with establishing the strategy for internal testing and the development of standard test procedures
• Incumbent will be expected to pull input from the whole team to formulate decisions and develop the output for the job/project. Applying reliability engineering methods to improve product reliability
• Determine root cause physics of failure and provide recommended corrective actions
• Significantly engage in developing lab Accelerated Life Test plans & associated reliant reliability simulation block models to predict product system performance in field
• Contribute to design of new products, processes or systems
• Improving product validation methodology, documentation & maintenance

Basic Requirements:

• Requires a Bachelor degree in an accredited Engineering, Mechanical, Electrical, or Materials Science
• 5 - 7 years of progressive related experience in Mechanical, Electrical, Software systems, L3 component & L4 system development
• Strong technical skills and the ability/desire to continue to learn validation engineering
• Advanced program management skills to lead multiple projects simultaneously and to make sound priority decisions
• Solid interpersonal skills - the ability to establish and maintain good working relationships
• Strong communication skills - oral and written complemented by the ability to develop/deliver technical presentations

Top Candidates will also have:

• Experience in design, build & test of engine systems & gen-sets
• Detailed working knowledge of Test data acquisitions such as Versadaq, EDaq, other Embedded control systems & logic
• Software skills: Canape, Matlab Simulink
• Lab or field test experience - Accelerated Life Test/DOE/Environmental stress testing
• Knowledge of Basic Statistical methods & Hypothesis testing
• Systems engineering experience - Reliability allocation, DFMEA, DVP&R, Mean time to failure, Physics of failure, Robust design
• Familiar with Caterpillar standard post-processing tools for analyzing test data from lab or field, specifically power systems signal processing
• Previous 6 Sigma Green Belt experience
• Initiative - a self-starter that requires minimal supervision who anticipates issue and takes appropriate action without being directed
• High personal and professional ethics

Additional Information:

• This position is part-time.
• The location for this position is remote.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
• This position will close on 12/8/21 @ 11:59PM.

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 .
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