Simulation senior Associate Engineer

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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.

This role focusses on development and maintenance of LPSD’s Field follow data configuration files for data loggers. The scope of the position includes translating customer data capture requirements into appropriate signal definitions, sampling rates, busload limitations to ensure optimal data quality. The data acquired through these configurations supports all LPSD products across the NTI, NPI and CPI lifecycle stages.

Responsibilities:

• Develop data logger configuration files that meet customer requirements for channel types, counts, and data capture quality.
• Maintain customer communication on build status, request modification needs and field operation troubleshooting support.
• Deliver regular, structured updates to team and management on high volume file build risks and milestones.
• Demonstrated strong communication, imitative and troubleshooting skills

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/Automobile/Aerospace/electrical/electronic engineering
• Overall, 4 years or more experience in developing configuration files for data loggers for large power applications.
• Experience in Matlab/Simulink and test plan evaluation on HIL bench.
• Good knowledge on Software testing tools like CANalyzer
• Excellent analytical and communication tools
• Enjoys working in a fast paced, technically challenging environment.

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:

• Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.

• Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.

• Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.

• Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.

• 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.

• Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.

• Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.

• Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.

• Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

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.

• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.

• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.

• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.

• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.

• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.

• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

Level Basic Understanding:

• Uses a structured approach in analyzing and resolving technical problems.

• Seeks opportunities for continual learning to maintain technical competence in pursuit of technical excellence.

• Provides examples or case studies demonstrating technical excellence in actual business scenarios.

• Pursues, prepares for and assumes new technical assignments and challenges.

Computer-Aided Design & Engineering: Knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate and test product design drafts.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Generates specifications for parts or components with CAD software.

• Reuses design components via reusable libraries following standard procedures.

• Uses CAD to perform basic drafting such as wire frames, solid objects and array of objects.

• Performs routine changes to computerized schematics or drawings.

• Creates views of objects in 2 and 3 dimensions; creates perspective drawings and orthogonal views.

Additional Information: This position requires working onsite five days a week

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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