Senior Design Engineer - Power Control Systems

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 centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history 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!

This role will design, develop, simulate and document requirements for new advanced power control systems, components, products, and technologies. Perform product maintenance support and resolve electrical design related issues.

• Developing and documenting functional requirements and translating into detail design documents.
• Perform analysis of models for site simulation of complex power systems.
• Verification of simulation models against prototype and test systems.
• Participating in buy‑build analysis for product components.
• Participating in and supporting proposal preparation, cost estimates, and technical reports.
• Provide maintenance and support of design control components
• Knowledge of genset controls, Battery Energy Systems, Inverters, Microgrids, and Distributed Energy
• Researching new materials and competitive products. Organizing, coordinating, and executing the building, testing, and analysis of prototypes.
• Assisting supply specialists and buyers with supplier development and supplier performance. Overseeing the efforts of drafting and testing specialists.
• Participating in and supporting proposal preparation, cost estimates, and technical reports.

Bachelor’s or above in accredited engineering curriculum

Experience in product application, testing, and process design experience in electric power generation, electrical & electronic control systems, inverter technologies or electrical power distribution systems

• Familiarity with MATLAB, Figma, Codesys, Homer, Creo preferred
• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
• Provides effective solutions to moderate 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.

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.

• 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…