Design Engineer – Electrification Site Applications & Integration

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.

About IDES:

Caterpillar’s Integrated Drivetrain Energy Solutions (IDES) 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.

We are looking for top talent to build and scale the next generation of technologies, products and services to help our customers build a better—more sustainable—world. We need self-motivated, intelligent and team-oriented individuals to make our plans a reality. Individuals with high emotional intelligence, humility and openness to discovery will thrive in the teams we are building.

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Job Summary

As a Design Engineer – Electrification Site Applications & Integration, you will develop, integrate, validate, and deploy customer-focused electrification solutions for commercial, industrial, and energy applications. You will translate customer requirements into deployable system solutions by integrating energy storage, charging infrastructure, distributed energy resources, controls, communications, and monitoring systems.

Working across multidisciplinary teams, you will ensure solutions meet performance, safety, reliability, and operational objectives while supporting projects from concept through commissioning and field deployment.

Additional Information

- This position is located in Mossville, IL.
- Domestic travel is 15% up to 25% & minimal international travel is required.
- Domestic relocation assistance is offered for this position.
- Visa sponsorship is not offered for this position.
- This position is 5 days on-site.

What You Will Do

- Develop site electrification solutions including battery energy storage systems (BESS), charging infrastructure, hybrid energy systems, and microgrids.
- Translate customer and site requirements into technical specifications, system architectures, equipment selections, and interface definitions.
- Lead integration activities across electrical, controls, software, communications, and monitoring systems.
- Support system validation, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Perform technical analysis and root-cause investigations to resolve complex integration and operational issues.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, manufacturing, service, suppliers, and customers to deliver successful site solutions.
- Prepare and maintain engineering documentation, test plans, validation reports, and technical recommendations.
- Monitor emerging electrification, energy storage, and site infrastructure technologies and recommend improvements to solution offerings.

What You Will Have

- Experience in electrification, energy systems, power systems, charging infrastructure, energy storage, or system integration.
- Experience leading technical work on engineering projects involving multiple disciplines.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Key Competencies

- Site Applications Engineering
- Systems Integration
- Power & Energy Systems
- Validation & Commissioning
- Customer Focus
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Technical Problem Solving

Computer-Aided Design & Engineering: Extensive experience and knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate and test product design drafts.

- Coaches others on orthographic, isometric and axonometric projections.
- Presents complex products and systems graphically.
- Performs manipulations on design objects, such as changing projections and managing drawing layers.
- Directs the matrix computations performed to transform objects in coordinate space.
- Consults on benefits and drawbacks of top-down design vs. bottom-up design.
- Compares and contrasts uses of bird's-eye views and worm's-eye views.

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

- 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.

Technical Excellence: Extensive experience and knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

- 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.

Managing Multiple Priorities: Extensive experience and 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.

- 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.

Effective Communications: Extensive experience and 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 behaviors.