Electrical Component 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****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 technicians and engineers in the development of electrical and electronic systems and components.- In addition to new development, current production hardware will be maintained and supported through the platform lifecycle including obsolescence management.**Degree Requirement**Requires a bachelor’s degree in an accredited Engineering curriculum (Electrical, Computer, Mechatronics or Mechanical)Intermediate-Advanced English level is required.**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.- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.**Technical Excellence**:- Advises others on the assessment and provision of all 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.- Strong focus on quality through simulation, analysis, verification, and validation testing at the component level, subsystem, and system level.- Advanced troubleshooting and analysis skills are needed to resolve complex development and field issues and to improve overall performance and cost.**Project Management**:- Supports project planning and tracking by gathering stakeholder input, creating progress reports, and assisting with scheduling tools (e.g., Gantt or PERT charts) under guidance for simple projects.**Electronics Engineering - HTH**:- 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**:- 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**:- 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**:- Works with basic, routine components of the mechanical engineering discipline in manufacturing.- Performs basic installation, testing, maintenance of electronic components- Uses software to draft drawings or writes specifications for specific mechanical engineering projects.- 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 supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers.- Resolv