Solar Turbines
Sr Mfg Engineer AT/EP
San Diego, California · Senior · Part-time
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About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Maintain, update, and create manufacturing production planning for a large variety of gas turbine engine and package parts.
- Support Repair Development Engineers to create new repair plans for overhaul engine parts.
- Create instruction sheets and Baan production orders to repair and create gas turbine parts.
- Work with supply chain engineers to create 3rd party manufacturing plans.
- Read and interpret engineering drawings to create adequate manufacturing plans.
- Use a combination of engineering and machining fundamentals to propose acceptance or repair of discrepant parts to MRB design engineers.
- Support multiple shifts of shop floor mechanics and machinists with technical solutions to improve ergonomics, reduce cycle time, and reduce tooling.
- Support on-time-delivery of turbine parts by maintaining frequent verbal communication between supervisors, team leads, and schedulers.
- Lead containment, root-cause, and corrective action for all high frequency defects, escapes, and scrap parts in a timely manner.
- Interface closely with machinists to create appropriate work holding, time standards, and routings.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, or related Engineering discipline
- 7+ years of experience in machining in lieu of a degree
- Knowledge of machining manufacturing operations.
- Ability to be a team player.
Nice to have
- Proficiency in Creo Parametric
- Proficiency in ASME Y14.5 Geometric Dimensioning and tolerancing
- Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
- This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O.
- As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
- $112,704.00 - $169,056.00
- Proficiencies in Baan, Creo, Windchill, SFIS, GD&T, 3D modeling - Creo preferred.
Compensation
- $112,704.00 - $169,056.00
- 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
- 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.
This listing is sourced directly from Solar Turbines's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.