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Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
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.
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs. Join us.
Job Summary:
This role primarily serves as a welding engineer for welding development, fabrication, and tooling support in research and business units projects. The role develops and evaluates welding processes that meet or improve weld safety, quality, velocity, and cost. Business unit support includes development of weld quality plans, troubleshooting and root cause analysis, weld process or parameter development, or other joining related needs. The role contributes to maintaining joining related specifications, standards, and manufacturing practices.
What You Will Do:
•Lead or contribute to welding, fabrication, and tooling development projects
•Collaborate on multi-disciplinary technical assistance teams to provide superior welding process solutions.
•Collaborate with the Caterpillar welding community to develop and implement welding processes
•Mentor less experience welding engineers
•Keep up to date on new technologies in the areas of joining
•Communicate welding process improvements to the Caterpillar welding community
Education Requirement:
•A Bachelor degree in Welding Engineering, Welding Engineering Technology
What Skills You Will Have:
Accuracy and Attention to Detail:
•Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
•Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
•Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
•Develops processes to ensure that information goes out error-free.
Analytical Thinking:
•Experience in welding failure analysis
•Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
•Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
•Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
•Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
•Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
•Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
•Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
•Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
•Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.
Effective Communications:
•Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
•Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
•Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
•Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
•Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
Technical Excellence:
•Provides effective technical solutions to routine functional challenges
•Experience in welding engineering or fabrications
•Experience in creating welding procedures and processes, PQRs and WPSs.
•Experience reading prints and GD&T
•Experience with welding robot programming
•Experience with welding process development and procedure qualification
•Applies current procedures and technologies to help resolve technical issues in one's general area of technical competence.
•Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues.
Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies:
•Understanding of welding related standards
•Ability to read and interpret specifications, standards and practices
•Obtains documentation and information on standards and their usage.
Product Testing:
•American Welding Society Certified Welding Inspector
•Experience with non-destructive weld inspection methods
•Develops testing procedures; participates in selecting testing environment and tools.
Troubleshooting Technical Problems:
•Documents common hardware, software and communications problems and likely resolutions.
•Troubleshoots typical technical problems in a specific area.
•Works with vendor-specific diagnostic guides, tools and utilities to discover application problems.
•Adheres to standard troubleshooting procedures to ensure effectiveness of resolutions.
•Participates in setting evaluation standards and criterion for troubleshooting.
Additional Information
The primary location for this position is Mossville, IL. Alternative locations are Decatur, IL, Athens, GA, Sanford, NC or S. Milwaukee, WI
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position may require up to 25% travel.
What You Will Get:
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides:
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