Design Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Cooling Component Design Engineer to join our Machine and Electrification Thermal Systems team at Caterpillar Inc. This role is critical in designing and validating cooling components and systems for Caterpillar machinery and stationary electrification applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and validation of cooling components and systems for Caterpillar machinery and stationary electrification applications.
• Engage with other component and system design teams throughout the concept, prototype, and production phases to ensure robust validation plans are created and implemented.
• Drive innovation through NTI cooling component development, staying up-to-date with innovative technology in the cooling space.
• Lead and support technical resolution of issues related to cooling components and systems (both New Product Introduction (NPI) and Customer Production Issue (CPI)).
• Lead and support component and system FMEA in collaboration with design engineers and system leads.
• Investigate and develop accelerated component durability test methods.
• Demonstrate effective leadership by providing technical guidance to component teams and resolving NPI and CPI issues with urgency, clearly communicating technical risks and mitigation tasks with management, updating robust validation procedures in design guides, and creating validation pass/fail criteria for machine cooling product components and systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an accredited Engineering or Materials Science curriculum.
• Relevant professional experience within design, development, and/or validation.

Skills

• Analytical Thinking: Extensive knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
• Effective Communications: Working knowledge and understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Managing Multiple Priorities: Working knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
• Technical Excellence: Working knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
• Computer-Aided Design & Engineering: Extensive knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate, and test product design drafts.
• Product Design - MFG: Extensive knowledge of processes, approaches, tools, and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design.
• Product Design and Development: Working knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.

Qualifications

• Extensive component design and modeling experience.
• Prior experience with diesel machine cooling components and system design.
• Prior experience with design and development of machine-mounted cooling components.
• Experience reviewing and interpreting simulation/VPD results.
• Ability to research new materials and competitive products.
• Organizing, coordinating, and executing the building, testing, and analysis of prototypes.
• Prior experience assisting supply specialists and buyers with supplier development and supplier performance.
• Experience overseeing the efforts of drafting and testing specialists.
• Experience developing and documenting functional requirements and translating into detailed design documents, participating in buy-build analysis for product components, and participating in and supporting proposal preparation, cost estimates, and technical reports.
• Extensive experience with Creo modeling, light fabrication design, print development, and releasing procedures.
• Strong knowledge of Caterpillar NPI program requirements and APQP project execution.