Career Area:

Engineering

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

About EPD

Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

Role Definition

Designs, develops, builds, and implements new projects, products, or technologies for advance electrical controls, Load shedding, and generator paralleling.

Responsibilities

• Researching new competitive products. Organizing, coordinating, and executing the hardware design and analysis of projects/prototypes.

• Overseeing the efforts of drafting and testing specialists.

• Developing and documenting functional requirements and translating into detail design documents. Participating in buy-build analysis for product components.

• Participating in and supporting proposal preparation, cost estimates, and technical reports.

• Provides leadership to drawing detailers as necessary and helps train new individuals in the group in electrical concepts.

• Participates on various teams as required.

• Provides technical guidance during product buildup and design.

• Ensures proper maintenance of production/manufacturing drawings.

• The incumbent, as part of activity in the design process, organizes and makes design review presentations.

• Gathers and summarizes data and writes technical reports.

Degree Requirement

Degree required or equivalent experience

Skill Descriptors

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of complex Electrical designs, PLC, Ethernet and Fibre Optic communications, Generator paralleling, switchgear design.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Provides effective technical solutions to routine functional challenges via sound technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.

• Effectively performs the technical job aspects, continuously building knowledge and keeping up-to-date on technical and procedural job components.

• Applies technical operating and project standards based on achieving excellence in delivered products, technologies and services.

• Applies current procedures and technologies to help resolve electrical technical issues in one's general area of electrical control technical competence.

• Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues.

Computer-Aided Design & Engineering: Knowledge of Electrical Controls, AUTOCAD Electrical, E-Plan, Schematics, NEMA, UL508A, PLC

Level Working Knowledge:

• Generates specifications for parts or components with AutoCAD Electrical software.

• Reuses design components via reusable libraries following standard procedures.

• Uses AutoCAD Electrical to perform electrical drafting such as Schematics, Complex Circuits, and mechanical layouts.

• Performs routine changes to computerized schematics or drawings.

• Creates views of objects in 2 and 3 dimensions; creates perspective drawings and orthogonal views.

• Creates reports from AutoCAD Electrical such as Wire Lists, BOM, connector, and error reports

• Review projects from fellow peers for quality and accuracy. Organize training topics from these reviews.

Project Design - MFG: Knowledge of processes, approaches, tools and techniques of product design, hardware and software systems.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Participates in the conception process of a manufacturing product vision.

• Collects and analyzes manufacturing requirements, and generates reports.

• Utilizes design methods to implement the construction of a new project/design model.

• Uses automated tools to design or modify the design of a project/product.

• Assists in the testing and refinement of a new product/component design.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques and understanding of the needs of facility

Level Working Knowledge:

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.

• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.

• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Managing Multiple Priorities : 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.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Recognizes changing demands and priorities; validates changes with management.

• Obtains information about how current assignments contribute to organizational goals.

• Completes current work according to assigned priorities.

• Responds to day-to-day operational priorities while still making progress on project work.

• Performs at least 2-5 concurrent activities without reducing productivity.

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. 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.

Additional Information

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

• Visa Sponsorship is not offered for this position.

• Location: Alpharetta, GA

#LI

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. 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.

Posting Dates:

June 18, 2024 - June 21, 2024

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.