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Test & Validation Senior Engineer
Mossville, Illinois · Senior · Part-time
No sponsorship$113k-$169kDetected 2 hours ago
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About the role
- Career Area: Engineering Job Description: Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
- Role Summary: The LPSD Core Components Senior Validation Engineer is responsible for leading structural validation activities for core engine components within the Large Power Systems Division (LPSD).
- Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the NSI (New Source Introduction) validation lead for LPSD core components, developing, managing, and executing validation plans from initial requirements definition through test completion and final reporting.
- Manage Core Components validation demand and PMO coordination by aligning program priorities, lab capacity, hardware availability, and global resources to optimize overall PMO execution and delivery timing.
- Collaborate with design, simulation, product, and supplier teams to develop and execute validation plans for NSI, NPI, NTI, NTI-S and CPI projects
- Coordinate engine hardware, fixtures, instrumentation, and tooling readiness to support on-time validation execution
- Analyze test data and communicate results, risks, recommendations, and potential design solutions.
- ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
- Analytical Thinking: Extensive knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
- Managing Multiple Priorities: working 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.
- Technical Excellence: Extensive knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
- Product Testing: Extensive knowledge of product testing approaches, techniques and tools; ability to design, plan and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure product quality at all stages of manufacturing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in accredited Engineering, Materials Science, or closely related curriculum or equivalent experience working in an Engineering function.
- ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
- Analytical Thinking: Extensive knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis
- Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Extensive knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques
- ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
- ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
- Managing Multiple Priorities: working knowledge of effective self-management practices
- Technical Excellence: Extensive knowledge of a given technology and various application methods
- Project Management: Extensive 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.
Skills
- Experience coordinating validation work across global labs, third-party facilities, proving grounds, or field test locations.
- This position is located in Mossville, IL.
- Relocation assistance is available for this position.
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Compensation
- $112,710.00 - $169,060.00
- Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
- Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience.
Benefits
- This is a summary list of benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
Company info
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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