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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.

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E&ES is seeking a Power Electronics Platform Lead (Electrification) to join the global CPPD team, responsible for development of a power electronics component for vehicles or power systems.  

This role is expected to lead the power traction inverter project for electric drive architecture to completion, delivering on quality, time and cost commitments while meeting client and business requirements.  

What you will do: 

• Leading one of more programs to bring new traction inverters and/or energy conversion devices into production. 

• Managing project and process deliverables, schedules and budget to meet program commitments. 

• Creating and delivering presentations, cost estimates, technical reports, and program Gateways, to a wide audience, including Senior Management, on assigned projects and new technology implementation. 

• Evaluating and summarizing recommendations to management for tradeoff decisions on Cost, Requirements and Timing. 

• Directing Mechanical, Electrical, and simulation teams, supporting team members and program activities to meet customer requirements. 

• Working with suppliers to implement designs and program deliverables. 

• Researching new materials, new technologies, suppliers and competitive products. Organizing, coordinating, and executing the building, testing, and analysis of prototypes.  

• Assisting supply specialists and buyers with supplier development and supplier performance. Overseeing the efforts of drafting and testing specialists.  

• Developing and documenting functional requirements and translating into detail design documents. 

• Participating in buy-build analysis for product components. 

What you have: 

Degree: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering  

Technical Excellence: Power electronics development experience 

 Level Extensive Experience:   

• Thorough experience with component development 

• Working knowledge of power electronics, power conversion and inverter/converter design 

• Completion of at least 1 cycle through a major new product launch (NPI) 

• Extensive understanding of complex engineering concepts and applications 

• 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. 

Product Design - MFG: Knowledge of processes, approaches, tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design. 

 Level Extensive Experience:   

• Develops improvement plans for senior management and evaluates the outcome of the design against the functionality.  

• Advises others on the development of multiple products and their functionality.  

• Trains others on advanced tools and approaches of product design.  

• Monitors the processes and procedures of a complex product design to ensure functional requirements are met.  

• Evaluates feedback from customers and consults on functional weaknesses.  

• Controls design and development costs of a proposed product through effective resource coordination. 

Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production. 

 Level Extensive Experience:   

• 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. 

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems. 

 Level Extensive Experience:   

• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.  

• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.  

• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.  

• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.  

• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.  

• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.  

Effective Communications: Ability to communicate technical and project information effectively with team members and others in the global work group, as well employees in other units, customers and suppliers. 

 Level Extensive Experience:   

• Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.  

• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.  

• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.  

• Communicates well globally, downward, upward, and outward.  

• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.  

• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.  

• Demonstrated ability to support team members. 

Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation. 

 Level Extensive Experience:   

• Team development experience  

•  Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.  

• Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.  

• Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.  

• Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.  

• Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.  

• Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.  

Additional Information: 

This position location is Mossville, IL.  

Up to 25% travel required with this position.  

Relocation assistance is available for this position.  

This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers. 

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals – including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities – are encouraged to apply. 

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Relocation is available for this position. 

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job.  At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.  It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. 

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Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.   

EEO/AA Employer.  All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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