Engineering Project Team Leader

Caterpillar•Mossville, IL

9h•Onsite

About The Position

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 E&ES: Caterpillar’s Electrification & Energy Solutions (E&ES) Division will focus on delivering advanced electrified power train, zero-emissions products/technologies, and the solutions and services associated with these technologies. Focus areas include batteries, fuel cells, motors, inverters, micro grid controllers, charging, energy storage systems, lifecycle solutions/services and integration of components for ePowertrain solutions across industries. We are looking for top talent to build and scale the next generation of technologies, products and services to help our customers build a better—more sustainable—world. We need self-motivated, intelligent and team-oriented individuals to make our plans a reality. Individuals with high emotional intelligence, humility and openness to discovery will thrive in the teams we are building. Job Summary: The Electrification & Energy Solutions Division is looking for an Engineering Project Team Lead that will be part of the Machine Integration and ePowertrain Solutions team with accountability for integrating batteries, motors, inverters, power converters, and associated control systems into electrified powertrain solutions. This person will work with our Machine Business Division partners across the CI and RI product lines to define and execute the enterprise strategy for Electrification.  This will include working with system architects and simulation experts to define electrified powertrain architecture concepts, execute system evaluations and optimizations, and complete trade-off assessments on attributes such as performance, energy efficiency, customer Total Cost of Ownership, and R&D timeline / investment. The candidate will then work with and across Machine Business Divisions to define system requirements based on Voice of Customer, Voice of Business, and Voice of Regulation and identify nodes of opportunity for leveraged system and component development.  They will support product development activities throughout the NTI and NPI program phases, providing technical leadership for concept studies, technical demonstrators, commercial demonstrators, and NPI programs.  This person will define and support validation of full electrification solutions and diesel electric solutions for our Machine Business Division partners as they develop products to meet their customers’ GHG emissions reduction goals.

Requirements

BS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (or related field)
Extensive Knowledge of Product development experience (NPI, NTI, CPI) specifically in performance, simulation and controls at machine, system, or component level
Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and their application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.
Power electronics or electric machine design; electric drive systems design, modeling and/or simulation preferred
High voltage system integration experience preferred
Machine systems application experience preferred
Ability to think beyond incremental design preferred
Expert 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.
Champions organization's project management methodology, tools, and techniques.
Manages multiple high-risk, high-cost projects involving multiple stakeholders.
Coaches others in open communication among project stakeholders.
Monitors major projects for critical path and actual status versus planned.
Consults on project planning and management of high-risk, high-impact projects.
Monitors industry for fresh approaches and tools for project management.
Extensive Knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams.
Brings projects to closure and ensures capture of what can be learned from the experience.
Leads the definition of team mission and objectives for a variety of teams.
Employs appropriate techniques for maintaining team enthusiasm, energy, and focus.
Ensures that team members are on board, unified, and moving in the same direction.
Communicates both within the team and to stakeholders.
Learns and utilizes special talents and work styles of team members.
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.
Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing required documents in various forms.
Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.
Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.
Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.
Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.
Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.
Extensive Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing environment.
Evaluates business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution.
Resolves difficult or high-impact equipment and systems problems.
Monitors machine performance and history; addresses excessive maintenance or repair needs.
Coaches others how to resolve integration or communications problems in multi-vendor environment.
Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach.
Uses advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems.
Extensive Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.
Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.
Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.
Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.
Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.
Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.
Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.

Responsibilities

HV System design and integration
Collaboration with component teams for component selection
Electric or mechanical drivetrain systems (design or simulation)
Motor / generator systems (design or simulation)
Power electronics / power conversion systems and controls (design or simulation)
Machine or systems controls collaboration
Machine integration, performance, or simulation