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.
The Design Technologist will perform design, development, and maintenance of new or existing products and components. The major focus of this role is technical delivery and the Design Technologist will work directly with different units, suppliers, customers, and/or other teams. This requires the ability to communicate technical information in a concise and accurate manner. Decisions may significantly impact product performance, durability, quality, reliability, and serviceability; negotiations with suppliers; leveraging new technologies; warranty; total cost of non-quality; costs; sales; and customer perception.
Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Managing multiple Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) projects utilizing excavators as the base machine
• Collaborating with the Hydraulic Excavator Design Center in Akashi, Japan
• Collaborating with excavator production facilities
• Coordinating the releasing of drawings for OEM projects
• Technical investigations to assist OEM's in adapting the excavators to the OEM applications
• Layout studies to add additional systems and components to the base excavators

Basic Qualifications:

• Requires a bachelor degree in an accredited Engineering program with a minimum of 5 years of job related experience in machine development and/or design OR
• In lieu of bachelors degree, a minimum of 10 years experience in machine development and/or design is required
• Must have excellent analytical skills and the ability to perform complex assignments
• Requires a self-starter with strong technical leadership skills.
• Must have ability to communicate technical information effectively with team members and others in the work group, as well employees in other units, customers, and suppliers.

Top candidates will also have:

• A minimum of 10 years of OEM machine design experience
• Experience with excavator machine or component validation or other Caterpillar machines/vehicles.
• Understanding of hydraulic and electrical systems.
• Experience using Creo 3D modeling software.
• Experience with print reading and geometric dimension and tolerance (GD&T) and drawing releasing.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position
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.
Because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with a short-term incentive plan
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
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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