Design Engineering Specialist

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**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. Role Definition Designs, develops, builds, and implements new products, components, or technologies. Responsibilities - Develop design parameters, performance characteristics, and technical specifications of products and components that satisfy customer needs and advance safety, quality, velocity and cost. - Guiding the evolution of the technical design, technical project planning, detail design, and development testing. Participating in supplier selection and capabilities assessment. - Monitoring, exploring, and testing new technologies, materials, and components to understand product or process improvement opportunities. - Constructing and fabricating prototype equipment; overseeing materials selection, process optimization and process yield, as well as reliability testing and failure analysis. - Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum. Degree Requirement B.E/B.Tech/M.E/M.Tech with experience 15 to 25years Skill Descriptors Analytical Thinking: 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. Level Extensive Experience: - Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances. - Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation. - Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research. - Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action. - Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts. - Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation. Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment. Level Extensive Experience: - Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks. - Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process. - Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact. - Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives. - Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus. - Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions. Effective Communications: 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. Level Extensive Experience: - Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching. - Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience. - Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position. - Communicates well downward, upward, and outward. - Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement. - Maintains focus on the topic at hand. Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives. Level Extensive Experience: - Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time. - Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects. - Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans. - Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients. - Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties. - Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms. Computer-Aided Design & Engineering: Knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate and test product design drafts. Level Extensive Experience: - Coaches others on orthographic, isometric and axonometric projections. - Presents complex products and systems graphically. - Performs manipulations on design objects, such as changing projections and managing drawing layers. - Directs the matrix computations performed to transform objects in coordinate space. - Consults on benefits and drawbacks of top-down design vs. bottom-up design. - Compares and contrasts uses of bird's-eye views and worm's-eye views. Product Development Life Cycle - MFG: Knowledge of the methodology and associated phases, activities and deliverables of product development life cycle in manufacturing organizations; ability to bring new or enhanced products to the marketplace. Level Extensive Experience: - Presents coordinated marketing and product development plans. - Advises others on using industry trends in a road map for product development. - Consults on similarities and differences of life cycle for development vs. enhancement activities. - Coaches on how to use multiple, vendor-provided or in-house structured methodologies. - Manages a significant piece of a successful product roadmap. - Oversees all phases, activities and deliverables of the prod