Control Systems Engineering Specialist

## Control Systems Engineering Specialist Apply locations:
Mossville, Illinois time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
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** Career Area:
** Engineering
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* 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 Advanced Power Technologies:
** Advanced Power Technologies (APT) defines and delivers Caterpillar’s next generation of power system technologies. The organization leads product strategy, long term technology roadmaps, and lifecycle leadership for advanced power, electrification, electronic controls, software, and energy solutions across the entire range of Power and Energy applications.

APT integrates hardware, software, and digital services to deliver scalable, reliable, and future‐ready power solutions. Partnering closely with product groups, engineering, and global delivery teams, APT balances near‐term business execution with long‐term technology leadership—enabling best in class electronics quality, fast response to market changes, differentiated customer value through vertical integration, improved uptime, and sustainable power systems across Caterpillar’s Power and Energy product portfolio.
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* Job Summary:

** As the
** Controls Systems Engineering Specialist**, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership in the design, development, and enhancement of electro-mechanical systems and mechatronic devices to optimize products and system.

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* What You Will Do:

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* • Provides technical leadership in Designing advanced electrical control systems and integrating electronic systems into electrification applications.  
• Providing technical leadership in Designing and implementing software to control and enhance electrification systems for charging and batteries.  
• Provide technical direction in Identifying and addressing areas of product weakness in finished products.

** What

You Will Have:

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* ** 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.

** Communicating Complex Concepts:
** Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.  Level Extensive

Experience:

• Uses subtle cues to determine the language and experience level of an individual or group.  
• Introduces technical terminology to listeners in the context of the product or service.  
• Uses effective analogies to help an audience understand a novel feature of a product or service.  
• Explains important details as they relate to the basic value of the product or service.  
• Approaches communication challenges from various angles to find the one that works.  
• Proceeds to next level of information when audience is ready.

** Problem Solving:
** Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse…