Development & Research Senior Engineering

**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.**Job Summary**:**What You Will Do**:- Lead global heat treat assessment process, including budgeting, planning, tracking, and corrective actions.- Conduct 20-30 domestic and international assessments annually.- Train and qualify new auditors; maintain audit processes and materials.- Solve high-impact metallurgical problems and lead corrective actions.- Participate in APQP, New Supplier Introduction, and New Product Introduction processes for various business units.- Plan and manage audits, including funding requests, prioritization, and oversight for teams in USA, Mexico, UK, Brazil, India, and China.- Track audit completion, distribute reports, and maintain audit data to client business units- Provide technical support to procurement personnel & suppliers- Provide metallurgical & manufacturing engineering technical support for heat treat components across the enterprise (Cat manufacturing facilities as well as suppliers)**Education Requirement**:- Requires a degree in an accredited Metallurgical Engineering or Materials Science curriculum.**What Skills You Will Have**:**Planning**:- Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.- Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.- Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.- Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.- Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.- Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.**Analytical Thinking**:- 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.**Decision Making and Critical Thinking**:- Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.- Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.- Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.- Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.- Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.- Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.**Effective Communications**:- 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 downward, upward, and outward.- Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.- Maintains focus on the topic at hand.**Technical Excellence**:- Fosters an environment that encourages, supports and rewards technical excellence.- Provides recognized technical leadership to an organization that includes vision, innovation, superior technical competence and the desire to excel.- Champions the use of new innovations and technologies that solve technical business problems.- Consistently applies the latest developments, practices and technologies to resolve complex technical challenges in one's general area of competence.- Develops organizational policies, best practices and management methods that are highly conducive to technical excellence.**Project Management**:- Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.- Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.- Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.- Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients.- Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.- Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.**Product Testing**:- Predicts industry and marketplace trends; explores new methods and technologies.- Leads the evaluation, selection, and impleme