Product Support Field Engineer

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Griffin, GA +4

Product Support Field Engineer for Caterpillar's Electric Power Division, focusing on complex technical problem resolution for large electric power products and systems, including generators, controls, and balance of plant. The role involves on-site support, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and developing corrective actions, as well as training dealer personnel and evaluating product/processes for improvements. Requires extensive experience in electric power generation systems and specific knowledge of Cat Engines, control systems, and balance of plant components.

What you'd actually do

  1. Make regular visits to customer sites, at the direction of the Field Engineering Manager to provide technical support, troubleshooting, and complex issue resolution for Electric Power products and systems. This can include performing site testing, troubleshooting and validation of product improvements.
  2. Train and assist Caterpillar dealer personnel and others in troubleshooting complex product issues.
  3. Provide deep technical expertise and on-site support to CPI projects. This will include development and execution of interim and permanent corrective actions as part of a wider team including engineering, manufacturing, quality, suppliers, and commercial teams.
  4. Evaluating product and processes to identify defects in manufacturing and design. Modifying designs to maximize production efficiency and product quality.
  5. Soliciting and gathering internal and external feedback to identify potential new products and/or improvements to existing products that improve product serviceability.

Skills

Required

  • Extensive experience and knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques
  • Working knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems
  • Working knowledge of relationship management techniques
  • High level soft skills for professional interactions with Key Account customers, dealers, contractors typically encountered at project sites
  • Extensive experience and knowledge of electric power generation systems and applications
  • Experience in installation, repair, troubleshooting, startup and commissioning Cat Engines, control systems, Generators and controls ( EMCP, ECS), Aftertreatment systems for Diesel and Gas engines , including T4 Final and retrofit systems, Balance of Plant systems typically found in Caterpillar Containerized Solutions (Shore power and electrical distribution, Complex Battery charging, Liquid Fuel Tanks and Gaseous Fuel infrastructure, Polishers, transfer systems, High Resistance Grounding, DEF Storage and transfer systems, Complex Cooling solutions including Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) managed designs
  • Capability to install, troubleshoot, create, reprogram, validate Modbus/Product Link (PLE) based Emergency Power Management Systems (EPMS) for interconnection to customer Building Management Systems (BMS). This includes serial and ethernet (copper and Fiber Optic) communications systems