Engine Design Architect

Engineering

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Salary/Grade: £57,737 + dependent on experience

Location:
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK

• 25 days annual leave
• Up to 12% Bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
  - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 10%
• Contributory share scheme
  - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution.
• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase.

Caterpillar’s Industrial Power Systems Division (IPSD) designs, tests and manufactures 0.5 to 18L Cat® and Perkins engines that power over 5000 applications including Marine, Petroleum, Industrial Applications, Electric Generators, and Locomotives. Caterpillar’s company strategy includes sustainability as one of four focus areas and IPSD is engaged and actively preparing green energy solutions for the future.

A vacancy has opened for a Mechanical Systems Engine Design Architect supporting current products within the IPSD-M Systems Engineering team.

The successful applicant will hold a significant, high impact, and broad role where they’ll have the responsibility to lead, co-ordinate, and deliver architecture, requirements, & analysis tasks alongside the lead architect. These tasks will be in support of the product lifecycle management cycles (NPI, NMI, NSI and CQM) on existing compact engine models. Whilst working in a global, multi-disciplinary platform team, the successful applicant will combine a deep internal combustion engine, aftertreatment, customer machine and engine integration knowledge to develop engine concepts, layouts, and packages optimised for cost, function, and delivery timing.

This will be achieved through clear requirement management and cascade to the design teams and by championing a systems, simulation, and data driven design philosophy.

Successful applicants will have strong communication skills, a thorough understanding of customers’ needs and a good understanding of the needs of the product in maintaining competitiveness and meeting cost targets. Responsibilities of this position require an ability to resolve complex technical problems and the ability to develop creative solutions in collaboration with the concept design and detailed design teams. Technical leadership, project management skills and the ability to foster a highly collaborative and inclusive team culture are essential.

The small and medium engine families include engine models spanning from 1.7 litres swept volume to 7.1 litre swept volume capacity that are calibrated for both highly and lesser regulated emissions territories. The engine family has a global manufacturing footprint (Peterborough – UK, Griffin - US & Wuxi – China) and has support and development teams in each of those locations with further development teams in Chennai in India too.

• In office full time
  - Office location Peterborough

• Guide the evolution of the technical design, technical project planning, performance analysis, and development testing through participation in the requirements & risk cascade process and by writing design briefs.
• Support the product team in profiling, managing & delivering new product options and…