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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.
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.
Description
Specific areas of focus include:
- Innovative technologies resulting in a low carbon footprint.
- Development of emissions reduction technologies.
- Efficient systems for diesel, natural gas, and renewable/green fueled engines and hybrid powertrain systems.
Job Duties
This position represents the journey-level position for engineering-related functions. The Catalysis Engineer is an individual contributor. This position is accountable for contributing to the identification, analysis, and resolution of current and future needs and problems in clean emissions technology components and systems for which the incumbent is beginning to build a reputation as a Catalysis expert.
This position performs complex laboratory bench tests and analysis work, develops, calibrates, and validates predictive performance models, and identifies and resolves problems. Although this position may be the transition from individual contributor to team leadership, the major focus of the job is on technical delivery. Incumbents may work more directly with different business units, suppliers, customers, and/or other teams and begin enhancing general and business skills. This requires the ability to communicate technical information in a concise and accurate manner. Decisions may significantly impact product performance, durability, quality, reliability, and serviceability; negotiations with suppliers; leveraging innovative technologies; warranty; total cost of non-quality; costs; sales; and customer perception.
Catalysis Engineers may expect to have direct contact with products, machines, or components while working in the field or at customer sites or may have direct contact with suppliers and customers to develop processes or resolve problems.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Evaluate emissions reduction technologies, products, and processes that integrate with advanced engine designs incorporating conventional or renewable/green fuels.
- Perform needs analysis and initiate ideas for low carbon footprint systems solutions.
- Perform bench test equipment design, operation, maintenance, and capability/capacity upgrades.
- Keep up to date on new clean emission technologies or develop modern technologies.
- Communicate technical information to dealers, customers, team members, suppliers, and other units; support and advise other engineers, managers, marketing personnel, dealers, customers, and suppliers.
- Develop and maintain a keen understanding of internal and external customers’ needs and represent the company externally.
- Provide support through all phases of development while ensuring the process can be run safely, identifying, and addressing scale-up issues, and developing the final process step.
- Providing product development technical and project management interface to management and internal clients.
- Performing data extraction/analysis, failure analysis and problem solving, application of simulation tools and methods, and practical application of theory and concepts.
- Testing products, analyzing test data, and making modifications to ensure compliance with specifications and requirements.
- Building, testing, and modifying product prototypes using working models or theoretical models.
- The role may later lead to creating, planning, and executing R&D projects, observing safety rules, timelines, and budgeting while providing technical assistance as part of a cross-functional team.
Skill Descriptors
Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
- Processes detailed information with good accuracy.
- Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.
Analytical Thinking: 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.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
- Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
- Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
- Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Effectively performs the technical job aspects, continuously building knowledge and keeping up-to-date on technical and procedural job components.
- Applies technical operating and project standards based on achieving excellence in delivered products, technologies and services.
- Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues.
Basic Qualifications
- Doctorate degree in either one of the following areas - Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a field specializing in reaction engineering.
- 1-3 years of catalyst testing and kinetic model development experience with programming languages (MATLAB, Python etc.). This experience can include time spent during a PhD program.
Top Candidates will also have
- A candidate is expected to have a strong background in CRE and/or catalysis.
- Experience with laboratory experiments and scale up.
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to perform complex assignments.
- Ability to communicate technical information effectively with team members and others in the workgroup, as well as employees in other units, customers, and suppliers.
- The position also requires outstanding people skills and excellent communication skills to convey technical information in a concise and accurate manner to serve as an experienced, individual contributor on Catalysis research and development projects and assignments that are complex in nature and that support and enhance Caterpillar product performance, durability, reliability, quality, and serviceability.
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL.
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position will require less than 10% travel.
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
Employee benefit details
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details
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Posting Dates:
March 15, 2024 - March 29, 2024Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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