Senior Hydraulics System Engineer
Caterpillar Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Peoria • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $110,520 - $165,840 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Direct and participate in the concept, design, and development of hydraulic systems and components ensuring our products deliver superior performance, durability, quality, and serviceability while meeting cost and delivery targets.
- Lead development activities with internal and external suppliers of hydro-mechanical and electro-hydraulic components through New Product Introduction or Continuous Product Improvement projects keeping the projects on schedule.
- Utilize your technical expertise, product knowledge, and cutting-edge technologies to extract data from our products and transform it into valuable insights, creating integrated solutions that help customers solve their greatest challenges.
- Collaborate with our global hydraulic engineering organization in the United States, Europe, India, and China.
- Travel to foreign and domestic locations, if required, to support component and system development activities.
- Work on developing solutions for our customers, involving diverse teams in the product group, machine performance, validation, software, controls and component development teams.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or mechatronics from an accredited university
- Ability to identify critical requirements, define appropriate next actions, and resolve issues with minimal oversight.
- Strong analytical skills are essential.
- Extensive knowledge of machine or system design and an understanding of the design process and standards.
- Experience with DFMEA and ability to identify necessary verification and validation activities.
- Evaluate, troubleshoot, define, and resolve issues during machine development, machine end-of-line and machine production, and field follow.
- Coordinate design validation and prototype machine iron.
- Collaborate with expert operators and test engineers to provide detailed feedback on machine performance that is correlated with measured data.
- Create and develop new intellectual property and patents.
- Ability to view, analyze and evaluate machine test data to make critical design decisions.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
hydraulic systemshydro-mechanical componentselectro-hydraulic componentsmachine designDFMEAdesign validationprototype developmentdata analysistroubleshootingintellectual property
Soft skills
analytical skillsproblem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationproject managementcritical thinkingleadershipadaptabilityattention to detailindependence
Certifications
bachelor's degree in mechanical engineeringbachelor's degree in mechatronics