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.
Description
This role primarily serves as a welding engineer for welding development, fabrication, and tooling support in research and business units projects. The role develops and evaluates welding processes that meet or improve weld safety, quality, velocity, and cost. Business unit support includes development of weld quality plans, troubleshooting and root cause analysis, weld process or parameter development, or other joining related needs. The role contributes to maintaining joining related specifications, standards, and manufacturing practices.
Job Duties
Lead or contribute to welding, fabrication, and tooling development projects
Collaborate on multi-disciplinary technical assistance teams to provide superior welding process solutions.
Collaborate with the Caterpillar welding community to develop and implement welding processes
Lead or contribute to projects to implement pieces of the Welding Digital Thread
Mentor less experience welding engineers
Keep up to date on new technologies in the areas of joining
Communicate welding process improvements to the Caterpillar welding community
Basic Qualifications
A BS degree in Welding Engineering, Welding Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering with Fabrications experience, Manufacturing Engineering/Manufacturing Engineering Technology with a focus in welding
5 years or more experience in Welding Engineering or Fabrications
Experience with reading prints and GD&T
Ability to travel internationally 25% of the time
Top Candidates will also have
Robot Programming experience
Experience with welding failure analysis
AWS Certified Welding Inspector
Experience/Certification with non-destructive weld inspection methods
Experience with Caterpillar Welding Specifications, Standards and Manufacturing Practices
Experience with weld process development and procedure qualification
Experience with welding/manufacturing process planning and quality systems/tools
Ability to communicate technical information effectively with team members and others in the Caterpillar welding community
Ability to function as an individual contributor or project team leader
Ability to network and establish collaborative relationships within Caterpillar
Ability to facilitate/lead change across multiple organizations
Good communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL.
Domestic 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 .
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EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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