Engineering Project Team Leader - Electric Drive Validation

Caterpillar Inc.•Mossville, IL

5d•$128,470 - $192,710•Onsite

About The Position

The Engineering Project Team Leader - Electric Drive Validation leads a team of test engineers to validate advanced drivetrain components and systems at Caterpillar's Technical Center as part of new product development programs or continuous product improvement projects. Success factors for the Engineering Project Team Leader role are interpersonal, leadership, and strong communication skills. Significant challenges of this position are working with people: enhancing the team’s creativity; facilitating the team’s cooperation; clearly communicating the requirements and tasks, while gaining input from the team on refinement of same; translating both verbal and non-verbal information from the customer, management, and team members. Project team leaders are the spokesperson for the team in meetings with multiple levels of management and with the customer. The team leader must develop good networks to enable them to obtain resources and cooperation needed and remove roadblocks so that they can ensure the success of their team. Project team leaders may be called upon to give input to performance reviews for team members. Ever increasing skills in the role-based competencies of Managing Vision & Purpose, Decision Quality, and Negotiating are required. The team leader role accounts for up to 50% of this assignment. The remainder of the time, the incumbent acts as an individual contributor, bringing technical expertise to the project as well. Team leaders must manage their own development, continuously learning through experience new business knowledge and skill. Program/project management and strong organizational skills are critical. Interpersonal, leadership, and strong communication skills are required.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor’s degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum plus professional engineering experience.
Previous powertrain product development experience (design, test, or analysis).
Excellent Understanding of mechanical and electrical systems.
Extensive knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.
Extensive knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Extensive knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization.
Expert level knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
Extensive knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams.
Extensive knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Extensive knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing or product management environment.
Extensive knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in an Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum
Experience with data analysis tools
Experience with data acquisition systems
Experience working in a lab test facility
Experience with electric drive systems and/or components
Experience with Caterpillar NPI and CPI systems
Demonstrated Technical leadership skills through the completion of complex projects

Responsibilities

Leading efforts for the specification, build, and commissioning of new test stands.
Defining program validation requirements.
Developing of testing standards and confirming adherence to standards during test execution
Ensuring lab tests are executed successfully to validate components / systems.
Providing engineering expertise in analyzing test data
Communicate results and making recommendations to customers, suppliers, team members, and other business units
Assist in identifying and troubleshooting hardware and software issues
Lead documenting findings in technical reports.
Mentoring and assisting others to fully contributing engineers
Develop and maintain technical expertise in Electric Drive Validation