SENIOR DESIGN ENGINEER - HEAVY STRUCTURES
Posted on: 13 May 2022
Decatur, IL
Job Description
Are you looking for your next career move to be a role where you can innovate and impact future Caterpillar products? If so, we have a great opportunity for you to join the Earthmoving Engineering team at Caterpillar as a Senior Design Engineer. This is an excellent opportunity to continue to develop and stretch your engineering skills as you design structural systems for Motor Grader products.
As a heavy structures Senior Design Engineer, you will support future product NPI programs, current product quality, and factory support. You will be responsible for understanding applications, designing manufacturable structural systems in concert with other system teams, working closely with production facilities, and collaborating across the enterprise to integrate virtual development and integrate best practices.
As a Structures Design Engineer, you will:
Support current products heavy structures related projects with a focus on quality, cost and velocity
Understand machine applications and customer use cases
Create new product design concepts, detailed designs and engineering drawings that meet schedule, cost, and quality goals
Collaborate with other design engineers, suppliers, and manufacturing
Validate designs through analysis and tests
Basic Qualifications
Requires bachelor’s degree in an accredited Mechanical Engineering
Requires minimum of five years of heavy structures design experience
Requires Motor Grader application experience
Requires completion of one NPI cycle to GW 3 (requirements to released drawings)
Top Candidates Will Also Bring:
Master’s degree in Engineering
Good verbal and written communication. Must have ability to communicate technical information effectively with team members, as well as cross functional teams, customers, and suppliers.
Ability to be an effective team player, detail oriented and highly organized.
Must have a good mechanical aptitude with the ability to develop product concepts.
Caterpillar
Deerfield, IL
Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines. Its Construction Industries segment offers asphalt pavers, compactors, cold planers, feller bunchers, harvesters, motorgraders, pipelayers, road reclaimers, skidders, telehandlers, and utility vehicles; backhoe, knuckleboom, compact track, multi-terrain, skid steer, and track-type loaders; forestry and wheel excavators; and site prep and track-type tractors.
The company’s Resource Industries segment provides electric rope and hydraulic shovels, draglines, rotary drills, hard rock vehicles, track-type tractors, mining trucks, longwall miners, wheel loaders, off-highway and articulated trucks, wheel tractor scrapers, wheel dozers, landfill and soil compactors, machinery components, electronics and control systems, select work tools, and hard rock continuous mining systems.
Its Energy & Transportation segment offers reciprocating engine powered generator sets; reciprocating engines and integrated systems for the power generation, marine, oil, and gas industries; turbines, centrifugal gas compressors, and related services; remanufactured reciprocating engines and components; and diesel-electric locomotives and components, and other rail-related products.
The company’s Financial Products segment provides operating and finance leases, installment sale contracts, working capital loans, and wholesale financing; and insurance and risk management products. Its All Other operating segment manufactures filters and fluids, undercarriage, ground engaging tools, fluid transfer products, precision seals, and rubber sealing and connecting components; parts distribution; integrated logistics solutions and distribution services; and digital investments services.
The company was formerly known as Caterpillar Tractor Co. and changed its name to Caterpillar Inc. in 1986. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois.
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IndustryManufacturing
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No. of Employees104,000
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