Senior Design Engineer

at  Caterpillar

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE POSITION YOU MUST DISPLAY THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES:

• Technical Excellence: Knowledge of given technologies and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges; Coaches others in promoting, defining, analysing and providing technical solutions to business problems.
• Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features, processes, approaches, tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design; ability to design, build and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production using 3D Parametric software.
• Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing environment.
• Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyse and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
• Influencing Through Expertise: Knowledge of effective influencing principles and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization; Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies, ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control multiple projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical resources to achieve project objectives.
• Team Engagement: Knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to integrate and contribute to the skills of a high-performance team. Coaches other team members to develop and excel in their engineering and technical fields.
• Products and Services: Knowledge of major products and services and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations. Evaluates feedback from customers and consults on functional weaknesses.

ROLE DEFINITION

Technical design, development and building of complex engineering projects involving multiple functions, organisations, products or value chains utilising multi disciplined components and technologies.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide effective solutions to technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Researching new materials and competitive products. Organizing, coordinating, and executing the building, testing, and analysis of prototypes.
• Developing and documenting functional requirements and translating into detail design documents and technical reports.
• Develop project scopes to address business challenges and opportunities.
• Overseeing project progress and costs; communicating status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; addressing and resolving problems.
• Integration with resources across the business with sales and marketing, product development groups, value chain and manufacturing.
• Participating in buy-build analysis for product components and supporting proposal preparation and cost estimates.