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Location: Chennai
Company: Caterpillar
Role Definition
Design, development and testing of electrical and/or electronic components for use within machines and engine systems.
Responsibilities
- Overseeing compliance with development processes and regulations for electrical and electronic systems and components.
- Investigating and troubleshooting all technical issues related to electrical and electronic systems and components.
- Managing and negotiating with electrical and electronic equipment vendors for the development of systems and components.
- Mentoring craftsmen, technicians and engineers in the development of electrical and electronic systems and components.
- Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
Degree Requirement
Skill Descriptors
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviours.
Level Working Knowledge
- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviours 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
Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Extensive Experience
- 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.
Project Management
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.
Level Working Knowledge
- Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
- Under guidance, plans and estimates simple projects.
- Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements.
- Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
- Produces standard project status reports.
Electronics Engineering – HTH
Knowledge of electronics engineering; ability to design, test and manufacture electronic circuits, components and devices.
Level Extensive Experience
- Trains others on designing complex integrated circuits.
- Anticipates the challenges and opportunities associated with creating printed circuit boards.
- Interprets alternative interfaces between hardware and software and associated requirements and considerations.
- Advises on matching methodology, materials and tools to the electronic product that is being built.
- Consults on engineering multiple electronic circuits, components or devices.
- Evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of analog and digital circuits.
Product Design – HTH
Knowledge of and the ability to utilize design tools (e.g. CAD) to convert customer and market requirements into a product design.
Level Working Knowledge
- Summarizes problems in the technical process and discrepancy between actual products and the vision.
- Analyzes the effectiveness of the new product design; incorporates advanced research into the overall design.
- Participates in the conception process of a hardware product vision.
- Utilizes design methods to implement the construction of a new design model according to plans.
- Analyzes the configuration of each component in relation to the overall product or product portfolio.
Reliability Management – HTH
Knowledge of reliability management; ability to utilize various tools, techniques, methodologies and metrics to meet and manage hardware product performance and reliability objectives.
Level Working Knowledge
- Selects appropriate tools and methods to ensure reliability expectations in hardware products.
- Participates in product reliability and quality assurance standard processes to meet process demands.
- Conducts performance and reliability testing for a specific hardware product or product group.
- Implements reliability activities and tasks for product development and maintenance plans.
- Analyzes common hardware reliability failures; provides corrective action plans.
Mechanical Engineering – MFG
Knowledge of mechanical engineering processes, techniques and methods; ability to design and implement machines and other mechanical devices that safely realize a desired objective or invention.
Level Working Knowledge
- Works with basic, routine components of the mechanical engineering discipline in manufacturing.
- Performs basic installation, testing, maintenance and repairs for machines, engines and other equipment.
- Uses software to draft drawings or writes specifications for specific mechanical engineering projects.
- Assists senior staff to resolve unusual mechanical problems; recommends ideas.
- Follows relevant standards, policies and practices in mechanical engineering operations; reports violations.
Supplier Management – MFG
Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice.
Level Working Knowledge
- Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks.
- Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers.
- Resolves routine supplier issues; escalates non-routine issues up chain of command.
- Researches alternative vendors or suppliers; participates in supplier selection.
- Works with suppliers to ensure that purchases meet delivery date and quality specifications.
