Location: Peoria, IL - Hybrid

Duration: Full time

Position's Contributions to Work Group:

• 80% of time spent to perform maintenance tasks on existing tooling (updates for compliance, obsolescence, etc.).
• Complete differing levels of engineering work as it relates to complex electrical service tooling.
• Introduce new tooling solutions as required.

Reason/motivation for request:

New position to provide additional support for current engineering needs.

• Primary workload is aligned to support of existing products.
• New product introduction is forecast to increase in coming years.

Typical task breakdown:

• Correction of existing tooling issues in multiple areas, can be updating an existing tool for compliance regulations, or for replacing existing tooling with replacement tooling.
• Creation of electrical tooling as requests come in from dealers or machine product groups.

Interaction with team:

• Daily interaction with engineering team lead to report project progress and for training.
• Daily interaction with other electrical engineering team members to understand process execution and best practices.
• Occasional interaction with other teams within Caterpillar and/or Suppliers as required for project work.

Work environment:

• 3 days in the office, 2 remote once candidate is trained. Subject to change at any time due to needs of a project or executive direction.
• Working in office environment, Electrical Lab and Mechanical lab as needed.

Education & Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree with 2-4 years hands on experience.

Technical Skills (Required)

• Ability to understand complex wiring circuits for test equipment and machines.
• Ability to read prints and understand requirements needed to produce parts.
• Basic computer software knowledge, Excel, Word, Adobe, etc.
• Project execution to a developed plan.
• Electrical troubleshooting experience on various circuits and components.
• Experience installing/working with harnesses on various applications (knows best practices).
• Testing of various components.

(Desired)

• Background in test, preferably on heavy equipment, industrial, automotive.
• Experience using instrumentation voltmeters, scopes, metrology, data collection devices.