Electrical Harness Engineer

Electrical Harness Engineer

The Dealer Service Tools division is seeking an Electrical Harness Engineer to join their dynamic team. This team is responsible for supporting product groups in designing a wide variety of CAT products by developing essential service tools. Every product group that designs a new machine collaborates with the mech lab in Building LC to develop service processes and information.

Key Responsibilities:

• Electrical Harness and Cable Work:
  Collaborate with the offshore India team to detail drawings, ensuring compliance with 1E specifications.
• Supplier
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with suppliers to ensure quality and timely delivery of components.
• Harness Dissection and Reverse Engineering:
  Dissect electrical harnesses to understand connections and reverse engineer them.
• Service Tool Design:
  Design tools and testing devices within harnesses to run diagnostics. For example, redesign harnesses to test battery packs as standalone units before reassembly.
• Electrical Testing:
  Utilize voltmeters and various electrical testing tools to ensure harness functionality.
• Team
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work as part of a 5-person team, with mandatory in-office days on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
• Local Travel:
  Occasionally travel to local suppliers as needed (minimal travel required).

Education & Experience

Required:

• Bachelors Degree strongly preferred, Masters will also work
• Ideally EE, other relevant degrees will also work
• Experience in electrical engineering (2-4 years)
• Electrical troubleshooting experience on various circuits and components
• Ability to understand complex wiring circuits and diagrams
• Experience installing/working with harnesses on various applications (knows best practices).
• Testing/validation
• Experience using instrumentation – voltmeters, scopes, metrology, data collection devices.
• CAT experience a major plus