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 Summary
The Senior Engineering Project Team Leader within the Advanced Power Products team will provide technical leadership to the Power Systems and Controls team specific to microgrid power system integration, new technology development related to site control systems, and site power system architecture. Technologies related to this role will include but not be limited to energy storage, power conversion, electric vehicle charging, fuel cell power systems, and control system algorithms.
Job Duties/Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
The Senior Engineering Project Team leader is recognized as one of the best in the company in a technical specialty. Product influence expands to vehicle concepts, product line concepts, and process systems concepts. In addition to demonstrating a mastery of engineering concepts, this position may be expected to lead a project or program to completion. However, major focus is on technical delivery. Direct work with other units, suppliers, customers, dealers and teams requires the incumbent demonstrate skill in negotiation, building consensus and achieving compromise. Impact of decisions made by this position may be far-reaching, to include the project team or immediate work group, division and/or business unit, suppliers, internal and external customers, and Caterpillar markets. Decisions may significantly impact product performance, durability, reliability, quality, and serviceability; warranty; cost of non-quality; patents; products or processes; technology; costs; sales; and customer perceptions or may lead revolutionary technology change.
Key Areas of Responsibility including the following:

• Lead technology development projects to support microgrid and power conversion system product introduction.
• Act as a technical adviser and subject matter expert for the Power Systems and Controls team.
• Work with market facing organizations to support customer project development.
• Perform concept feasibility analysis to evaluate key components, sub-system, and system technology options and trade-off's.
• Develop overall performance acceptance criteria for product; use latest VPD and simulations tools to evaluate different concepts and recommend prime path.
• Lead a small team of engineers to work on several projects that make impact for Caterpillar machines performance and controls features.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 12 years of experience
• Master's or PhD in mechanical engineering with 8 years of experience
• Incumbents have usually gained 10 plus years of experience, have an extensive understanding of complex engineering concepts and applications and have generally developed an area of expertise that gains them recognition as one of the best in the company
• Requires a self-starter with strong technical leadership skills.
• Must have ability to communicate technical information effectively with team members and others in the work group, as well employees in other units, customers and suppliers.

Top Candidates May Have:

• Master's Degree or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Additional Information

• This position will close on 11/14/21 at 11:59pm
• The location for this position is Mossville, IL
• Relocation assistance is available for this position
• This position may require up to 25% travel

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.
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