Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) needs to build and scale the next generation of technologies, products, and services to help customers build a better, more sustainable world. This role specifically addresses the need for technical leadership and expertise within the Switchgear organization to ensure high-performing teams and effective project execution.
Requirements
- Experience in the design of low and medium voltage switchgear, including power circuit breakers and complex paralleling generator control systems.
- Strong understanding of protective relays, generator controls, and PLC/SCADA communications networks and protocols.
- Familiarity with internal engineering standards and external codes such as NEC, UL, ANSI, and CSA.
- Experience managing and applying standards in electrical design and control systems.
- Previous experience with PLC-based control systems and generator sets, including multi-generator configurations paralleling with utility sources.
- Interpret customer specifications and drawings and have in-depth dealer/consultant interaction.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of application engineers and CAD designers in the technical design of generator paralleling switchgear and controls.
- Lead a team of application engineers and CAD designers on project submittal execution while monitoring quality, costing, and timeliness of projects.
- Train, mentor, and develop a team of application engineers and CAD designers to improve their overall technical capabilities and align with the engineering department’s objectives and strategies.
- Create and maintain processes and procedures followed by the Application Engineering team used to create project submittal packages consisting of drawings and BOMs.
- Review specifications, proposals, estimates, and other contract documents to perform technical reviews of submittal packages.
- Support inside and outside sales team members with technical solutions and guidance.
- Support production engineers for successful transition from submittals to production.
Other
- Lead a high-performing team of Application and CAD Engineers while serving as a technical escalation point within Caterpillar’s Switchgear organization.
- Working knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
- Working 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.
- Working knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
- Working knowledge of processes involved in managing people; ability to lead successful teams, ideally engineering teams, and diligently address issues related to performance and conflicts at the workplace.
