HMI Engineer

Career Area:

Business Technologies, Digital and Data

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 EPD

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
The HMI (Human-Machine Interface) Engineer plays a crucial role in designing and developing interfaces that allow humans to interact with machines effectively and intuitively. This role blends aspects of user experience (UX) design, software engineering, and human psychology to create interfaces that are user-friendly, efficient, and visually appealing. This involves understanding user needs, designing interface layouts, selecting appropriate controls and feedback mechanisms, and ensuring seamless integration with the underlying Switchgear control systems.

Responsibilities
Delivering technical roadmaps on business processes and applications to support business objectives, standards and processes.
Analyzing business requirements, current technical gaps needed to support business strategies and expectations.
Delivering high quality HMI projects while working under pressure and within aggressive deadlines. Responsible for assisting Product Support via field troubleshooting.

Collaborate closely with Electrical / Software engineers to create interfaces that enhance productivity, safety, and user satisfaction.
Skill Descriptors

Systems Software Infrastructure: Knowledge of computer architecture and system software interaction; ability to design and build a fundamental architecture of operating systems, database management systems, communications protocols, compilers and other development tools.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Reports software connectivity and integration issues.
• Demonstrates planned software changes on the local environment.
• Administers software migration and contingency plans related to own function.
• Analyzes the local software architecture components and products.
• Tests key features for the entire software infrastructure environment.
 

Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
Level Basic Understanding:
• Describes basic activities and deliverables associated with application design.
• Discusses technical architecture relevant to own environment.
• Identifies technical application architecture standards and considerations.
• Names the specific tasks, activities and deliverables of technical application design.
 

Data Warehousing: Knowledge of how to collect data from different information sources and distribute them to users; ability to simplify information systems and make sound business decisions.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Utilizes data warehousing tools and techniques.
• Assists with data planning, sourcing, collection and transformation.
• Ensures the stability and effectiveness of an organization's data repository by following organizational guidelines.
• Assesses various information systems which provide data to an integrated repository.
• Addresses user needs from an organization's data warehouse.
Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Discovers, analyzes, and resolves hardware, software or application problems.
• Works with vendor-specific diagnostic guides, tools and utilities.
• Handles calls related to product features, applications, and compatibility standards.
• Analyzes code, logs, and current systems as part of advanced troubleshooting.
• Records and reports specific technical problems, solving processes and tools that have been used.

Systems Thinking: Knowledge of the critical interdependencies among individual system elements that help and hinder performance; ability to plan and design solutions that synchronize resources to achieve business results.
Level Basic Understanding:
• Demonstrates the ability to describe the interrelationships among elements of a system.
• Applies the concept of analytical thinking to identify problems in a system.
• Seeks help to learn about system elements outside area of responsibility.
• Identifies the key elements of a system.
Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
Level Basic Understanding:
• Focuses activities on developing and maintaining positive internal and external customer relationships.
• Discusses general differences between internally and externally focused organizations.
• A proactive and efficient team player with the reputation for being a self-starter that exceeds performance expectations
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.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
Business Intelligence: Knowledge of business intelligence; ability to utilize business processes and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data that helps the organization make better business decisions.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Organizes and maintains data to be captured in the data warehouse for BI applications.
• Develops processes for transforming aggregate data into useful business information.
• Analyzes BI gained from multiple and diverse environments.
• Evaluates key benefits, drawbacks and rationale for existing BI activities.
 

Additional Information

• Location: Alpharetta, GA

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

• Visa sponsorship is not offered on this position

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. 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. #LI

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.

Posting Dates:

April 17, 2024 - May 1, 2024

Any 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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