Electronic Engineer

**Career Area**:Engineering**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.**Role Definition**Design, development and testing of electrical and/or electronic components for use within machines and engine systems. Specific component will include operator controls such as joysticks and keypads and other components such as lights and radios.**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.**Degree Requirement**:Electrical Engineering or Mechatronic Engineering DegreeBeginner experience with experience in Design, Development, and Production of electrical and electronic components.**Skill Descriptors**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.- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.- English Skills: AdvancedTechnical Excellence:- 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:- Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.- 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:- Basic knowledge of complex integrated circuits.- Anticipates the challenges and opportunities associated with 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.- Understands data link protocols such as CAN/J1939.- Familiar with PWM circuitry, and output signals.Product Design - HTH:- Summarizes problems in the technical process and discrepancy between actual products and the requirements.- 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:- 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.Create Test plans to validate components, including electrical, mechanical, and environmental tests, per Caterpillar standardsMechanical Engineering - MFG:- Works with basic, routine components and processes 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:- Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks.- Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve sup