Project Engineer - Alpharetta, United States - Caterpillar

Description

**Career Area:**

Engineering

**Job Description:**

**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.

Title: Project Engineer (Quality)

**About EPD**

Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. Were committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations

**Role Definition**

Improve quality of design and efficiencies of processes of products and services implements new components, products, or technologies. Interpret customer specifications and drawings, while considering industry regulations.

**What you will do** **:**

+ Conducting measurement systems analysis; gathering, analyzing, and communicating non-conformance data.

+ Analyzing non-conformance data and maintaining quality system documentation.

+ Participating in and offering technical support to internal and external audits; following up response of corrective action from audit. Manage and drive resolution of technical and process related tickets.

+ Interacting with engineering team members to determine root cause of quality issues and ensure that corrective and preventive action is implemented. Work with vendors.

+ Create Bill of Materials, analysis of post BOM parts, create and manager Process maps.

**What you have:**

**Degree Requirement:**

+ Degree Required

**Skills Descriptors**

**Quality Management:** Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.

Level Working Knowledge:

Utilizes quality indicators relevant to own unit or function.

Adheres to organizational quality management processes and practices.

Applies key aspects of continuous improvement processes and evaluates impact on quality.

Uses quality evaluation tools and techniques such as walkthroughs and inspections.

Works with quality assurance methods, tools and techniques.

Manage ISO 9001 Engineering documents including improving documentation tools and process improvements.

**Effective Communications:** Ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Working Knowledge:

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.

Provides direction to Purchasing and Manufacturing

Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

**Managing Multiple Priorities** : Ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.

Level Working Knowledge:

Recognizes changing demands and priorities; validates changes with management.

Obtains information about how current assignments contribute to organizational goals.

Completes current work according to assigned priorities.

Responds to day-to-day operational priorities while still making progress on project work.

Performs at least 2-3 concurrent activities without reducing productivity.

**Root Cause Analysis (RCA):** Ability to use a structured approach to identify the causes of undesirable consequences in a manufacturing environment and the changes needed to prevent recurrences.

Level Working Knowledge:

Utilizes RCA techniques, such as Flowchart, Fish-bone Diagram, etc., to investigate basic problems, determine the causes, and find resolutions.

Locates factors that resulted in harmful outcomes of one or more past events.

Pinpoints behaviors, actions, inaction, or conditions that need to be changed.

Extrapolates lessons to be learned to promote the achievement of better consequences.

Practices RCA as an iterative process.

**Technical Excellence:** Knowledge of BOMs and ERP systems, electrical drawings

Level Working Knowledge:

+ Provides effective technical solutions to routine functional challenges via sound technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.

+ Provides direction to CAD designers to create wiring and assembly drawings

+ Applies technical operating and project standards based on achieving excellence in delivered products, technologies and services.

+ Applies current procedures and technologies to help resolve technical issues in one's general area of technical competence.

+ Writes and validates PLC code for generator control systems, interfacing with various communication protocols.

**Collaborating:** Ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.

Level Basic Understanding:

Demonstrates a basic understanding of the concept of collaborative processes.

+ Explains the concept of collaboration as applicable to organizations.

+ Provides examples of how collaboration has helped achieve organizational goals.

+ Works with Product support to address rework from the Field.

+ Manage training within Engineering department.

+ Contrasts collaborative with competitive operating styles in organizations.

**About Caterpillar**

Caterpillar Inc. is the worlds leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, weve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

**Additional Information**

+ The location for this position is Alpharetta, GA

+ Domestic relocation assistance is not available for this position

+ This position may require 10% travel

+ Visa sponsorship is not available

**Employee benefit details**

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

_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_ _._

**Posting Dates:**

May 9, May 23, 2024

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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