Mechanical Design Engineer

## Mechanical Design Engineer Apply locations:
Lafayette, Indianatime 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 the Electric Power Division
** 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 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!
** Role Definition
**** Electric Power Division
** currently has an opening for a
** Mechanical Design Engineer
** in the Global Gas Solutions Packaging team.  This position will support the design of the mechanical Balance of Plant and enclosure components for natural gas genset solutions.  A strong focus will be on CHP and Standby enclosures.  All designs need to be modular and designed for manufacturing, so that they can be sourced either in-house or at the third-party packagers.  

Special design flexibility needs to be in place to quickly optimize the design to meet customer or site requirements once an order is placed to support custom orders. Enclosure solution designs will integrate mechanical components and distribution into the packages, serving different customer applications.

The incumbent will facilitate the concept and the detailed engineering design for various aspects of the standard enclosed genset solutions, overseeing the releasing to Cat engineering systems, helping resource components and assemblies, leading or participating in the design reviews, participating in the VDRA’s to ensure manufacturability of the engineering designs in support of new product development (NPI) as well as engineering maintenance (custom orders) in a manner to ensure the products provide superior performance, best cost, durability, quality, and serviceability.

The incumbent will facilitate or support the validation testing.

This position requires effective collaboration with internal partners, external suppliers, operations, supply chain, commercial team, and third-party packagers to deliver robust designs globally and to drive cost reduction and quality improvements.
** Additional Info:
*** This position is based in Lafayette, IN and will be in-office 5 days per week
* Travel up to 20%
* Relocation assistance is available for this position
* Sponsorship is not available for this position
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* What You Will Do:

*** Accountable for concept and design of mechanical components and subsystems for the standard packaged enclosed solutions, processing engineering drawings and data in line with company procedures and Cat engineering systems, monitoring prints releasing to Cat systems on time
* Support design reviews, virtual design reviews, sourcing parts from suppliers, and validation testing
* Create drawings for customized standard solutions
* Perform quality checks on enclosure packaging solutions and drive issue resolution with a sense of urgency
* Release pricing arrangements for the pricelist options
* Release parts in alignment with CVA’s to support total life cycle cost calculations before a sale is executed
* Provide technical support to the technical sales support team…