Senior Technical Regulatory Compliance Engineering Specialist

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.

Career Area

Engineering

Technology focus and company culture summary

Technology is a competitive differentiator. We collaborate with partners across the enterprise to advance technologies including autonomy and automation, which helps enhance site safety, productivity and efficiency across customer operations worldwide. Our focus isn’t just on what we build, but how we build it. We scale technology solutions across the business. We spearhead product development tools and processes. We collaborate with our partners to provide a seamless experience for our customers.

We are obsessed with speed, simplicity and customer outcomes. Cat Technology also owns enterprise-wide initiatives in innovation, research and development, manufacturing automation and advanced materials, ensuring Caterpillar continues to lead the industry in technological excellence and engineering innovation.

Role Overview

The key role of the Technical Regulatory Compliance Engineering Specialist is that of principal contributor on a design or CPPD team responsible for development of safety and compliance related aspects of a product, process or both. This position contributes to Enterprise regulatory compliance teams, develops solutions for complex technical engineering problems, and may be accountable for the design or improvement of complex systems or processes.

Specific duties include understanding, interpreting and participating in the development of various international standards, engaging in advocacy efforts on regulatory policies, conducting training for internal product system or component teams, facilitating control system safety assessments and product safety risk assessments, participating in design reviews and consulting with engineering design teams, auditing hardware and software assessments and participating in projects to further improve efficiency of the work group.

• Provide Control System Functional Safety and Machinery Product Safety Risk Assessment support.
• Contribute to Enterprise regulatory compliance and safety teams, as well as committees or groups outside of the company.
• Collaborate with peers performing similar activities in support of all Caterpillar products, reporting to a Functional Safety and Risk Assessment manager.
• Demonstrate the ability to develop and perform on a complex project or program.
• Work directly with other units, suppliers, customers, and teams requiring negotiation, building consensus, and achieving compromise.
• Make decisions with far-reaching impact on project teams, divisions, business units, suppliers, internal and external customers, and Caterpillar markets.
• Impact warranty, patents, products, processes, technology, costs, sales, and customer perceptions.
• Stay up to date with regulatory compliance requirements and technology, developing increased technical breadth and/or depth.

• Collect and synthesize data from multiple sources using standard tools and techniques.
• Document and evaluate data to support informed conclusions and recommendations.
• Identify and report issues in the data collection process.

• Understand and apply product development best practices to improve quality and cost efficiency.
• Identify relevant methodologies and their benefits to the organization.
• Reference and interpret best practice documentation for assigned tasks.

• Recognize key categories of business risk and their potential impact.
• Apply basic risk management practices and tools to mitigate exposure.
• Leverage organizational resources to support risk avoidance and control.

• Process complex information…