Design Engineer

Career Area:

Engineering

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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 centres, 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!

Designs, develops, builds, and implements new components, circuits, products, or technologies via AutoCAD Electrical software. Research hardware BOM’s for Electrical Controls & Mechanical details and fitment. Project based workflow and execution. Design and creation of electrical schematics, mechanical switch gear layouts, control panel layouts, and automation schematics. Adding all the details for a successful build cycle. Budget and projects timelines are key milestones to adhere to, for a measure or rate of success.

• Designs, modifications, and implements CAD templates in the execution of project based schematic development.
• Researching new components and competitive products. Organizing, coordinating, and executing the building, testing, and analysis of prototypes.
• Developing and documenting functional requirements and translating into detail design documents. Participating in buy‑build analysis for product components.
• 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.

• Names specific tools or techniques that can be used to support the analytical thinking process.
• Describes specific software applications or products used for business analytics.
• Gives examples of how analytical thinking has been used to resolve problems.
• Detail orientated skills, ability to think and work out solutions, all while keeping project moving forward.
• Helps others research and learn more about business analytics tools and applications.

• Describes non‑verbal behaviors that influence the interpretation of the message.
• Cites examples of effective and ineffective communications.
• Explains the importance of effective business communication.
• Speaks/writes using correct language, mechanics, and gestures.

• Explains concepts of time and priority management.
• Seeks guidance in detecting and addressing priority conflicts.
• States their own business priorities.
• Describes team or unit priorities.

• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
• Enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
• Defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
• Provides effective solutions to technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.
• Understanding of Electrical Controls and how to wire them together. IE: PLC’s. Relays, Selector switches, push buttons, transformers, and communications…