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Senior Design Engineer

Caterpillar Brazil, Lafayette, IN, United States


**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. • 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. **Effective Communications:** Extensive knowledge and understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors. • 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. **Managing Multiple Priorities:** Extensive 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. • Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities. • Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities. • Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments. • Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary. • Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work. • Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities. **Technical Excellence:** Extensive knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges. • Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions. • Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues. • Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective 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. **Computer-Aided Design & Engineering:** Extensive knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate and test product design drafts. • Coaches others on orthographic, isometric and axonometric projections. • Presents complex products and systems graphically. • Performs manipulations on design objects, such as changing projections and managing drawing layers. • Directs the matrix computations performed to transform objects in coordinate space. • Consults on benefits and drawbacks of top-down design vs. bottom-up design. • Compares and contrasts uses of bird's-eye views and worm's-eye views. **Product Design - MFG:** Extensive knowledge of processes, approaches, tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design. • Develops improvement plans for senior management and evaluates the outcome of the design against the functionality. • Advises others on the development of multiple products and their functionality. • Trains others on advanced tools and approaches of product design. • Monitors the processes and procedures of a complex product design to ensure functional requirements are met. • Evaluates feedback from customers and consults on functional weaknesses. • Controls design and development costs of a proposed product through effective resource coordination. **Product Design and Development:** Extensive knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production. • Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness. • Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process. • Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services. • Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products. • Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems. • Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.* Medical, dental, and vision benefits\** Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)\** 401(k) savings plans\** Health Savings Account (HSA)\** Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)\** Health Lifestyle Programs\** Employee Assistance Program\** Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts\** Career Development\** Incentive bonus\** Disability benefits* Life Insurance* Parental leave* Adoption benefits* Tuition Reimbursement
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