L5 Electric Powertrain System Technical Lead

Caterpillar Inc.•Mossville, IL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

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 a System Integration Technical Lead that will be part of the E+ES System Solutions - Power & Energy team with accountability for integrating batteries, motors, inverters, power converters, and associated control systems into electrified powertrain solutions. This person will work with our Power and Energy Industry Segments to define and execute the enterprise strategy for Electrification. This will include working with each of the Power and Energy industry segments to define the opportunities for market growth and product development needs. In addition, this person will work 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 support product development activities, providing technical leadership for concept studies, technical demonstrators, commercial demonstrators, and NTI and NPI programs. This person will define and support validation of full electrification solutions and diesel electric solutions for our Power and Energy customers as they develop products and solutions to meet their goals.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (or related field)
Extensive experience with 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 its 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.
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 experience and 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 experience and 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 requirement 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 experience and 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 experience and 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.

Nice To Haves

Power electronics or electric machine design; electric drive systems design, modeling and/or simulation experience
High voltage system integration experience
Machine systems application experience
Ability to think beyond incremental design

Responsibilities

Interface and respond to internal and external customer inquires
Manage projects with outside engineering suppliers and services
Manage and interface with internal rapid development teams
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