Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
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Job Summary
Caterpillar is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Design Engineer to join our team focused on genset applications. This role is critical in delivering high-performance, compliant, and manufacturable solutions. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise in mechanical design and a collaborative mindset to work effectively with global teams
Role Definition
Serve as a senior technical individual contributor with full accountability for the end‑to‑end design and development of large (>2 MW) diesel genset packages. Lead and deliver complex, high‑impact engineering initiatives, driving technical excellence from concept definition through detailed design, rigorous validation, and successful global production release.
Responsibilities
- Lead design and development of Genset package from concept selection through detailed design, ensuring compliance with Caterpillar’s engineering standards and regional regulations.
- **Technical Expertise: ** Provide strong technical leadership with deep knowledge of engineering fundamentals, structural design & fabrication. Understanding FEA inputs and effectively interpret analysis results to convert them into robust design solutions.
- Manufacturing: In-depth knowledge of GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing), material selection, welding, engineering drawings, manufacturing processes and package Bill of Material (BOM).
- **Interface & Cross Functional Collaboration: **Lead interface management across global cross functional engineering teams and suppliers to ensure holistic package fitment, system integration, and functional integrity throughout the product lifecycle.
- **Design Optimization: **Apply engineering principles and analytical insights to optimize designs for manufacturability, performance, durability, cost effectiveness‑, and ease of assembly.
**Experience required **
- Strong engineering** fundamentals**, including hands-on‑ design calculations, structural analysis, and the ability to interpret and apply FEA results to develop robust, compliant designs.
- Proven expertise in structural** and fabrication design**, including sheet metal design and integration of large assemblies.
- Demonstrated experience delivering manufacturing** ‑ready designs**, with solid knowledge of GD&T, materials, welding practices, engineering drawings, and BOM development.
- Proficiency in 3D CAD modelling, detailing, and design validation (Creo or equivalent) within an industrial product development environment.
- Strong project management with track record of leading or executing complex, high-impact‑ engineering programs in regulated, global manufacturing organizations, meeting quality, cost, and schedule commitments.
Skills & Competencies
- Customer focused‑ problem solving and value creation, translating business and customer needs into effective engineering solutions.
- Strong sense of accountability with a continuous growth mindset, demonstrating ownership of outcomes and commitment to professional development.
- Structured root cause analysis and continuous improvement orientation, driving sustainable solutions and operational excellence.
- Uncompromising focus on safety, quality, and regulatory compliance, ensuring adherence to Caterpillar standards across the product lifecycle.
- Capability to mentor and develop junior engineers, strengthening technical capability and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s/master's degree in mechanical engineering with minimum experience of 8 years in relevant field.
- 3+ years of experience working on sheet metal design and handling large assemblies.
Skill Descriptors
Analytical Thinking: 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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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: 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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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: 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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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: Knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate and test product design drafts.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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: Knowledge of processes, approaches, tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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.
This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.
Additional Information: This job required 5days working from office.
Posting Dates:
May 13, 2026 - May 20, 2026
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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