Senior Consulting Engineer

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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.

Role Definition
Leads cross-functional teams by providing technical expertise, direction and engineering support for complex design and development of technologies, components, systems, products, or services. Consultant to management in establishing best practices and standard work.

Responsibilities
•    Leads new designs and teams resolving manufacturing or operational issues, for complex components and systems. Responsibility for design acceptance, manufacturing producibility, and validation. Develop project scope to address business challenges and opportunities.
•    Developing and maintaining of enterprise technology roadmaps and process improvements to achieve greater efficiency, cost reduction and quality improvement.
•    Define and implement engineering procedures to make the product or process more reliable, efficient and cost-effective. Understanding functional requirements and translating into detail design documents.
•    Leading collaboration across the enterprise and externally to provide product solutions.

Degree Requirement
•    Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.

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 Expert: 
•    Monitors industry trends and directions and discusses possible impact on internal strategies.
•    Champions the use of business intelligence applications for tactical and strategic decisions.
•    Helps others discover the diverse features, parameters, or considerations to take into account.
•    Implements operating metrics and performance gauges such as the balanced scorecard.
•    Designs and orchestrates the use of business analytics for strategic decision-making.
•    Employs statistical and quantitative analysis, and explanatory and predictive modeling techniques.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Expert: 
•    Analyzes and discusses alternatives with multiple stakeholders.
•    Monitors developments in critical-thinking and decision-making models for potential use by organization.
•    Coaches others in decision-making models, processes, and practices.
•    Anticipates special issues and considerations for effective decision-making during a crisis.
•    Shares experiences regarding optimal timing and circumstances for refraining from or making decisions.
•    Differentiates between content and context of a decision.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Expert: 
•    Fosters an environment that encourages, supports and rewards technical excellence.
•    Provides recognized technical leadership to an organization that includes vision, innovation, superior technical competence and the desire to excel.
•    Provides highly effective solutions to very complex technical challenges, applying outstanding technical competence to understand and resolve issues.
•    Champions the use of new innovations and technologies that solve technical business problems.
•    Consistently applies the latest developments, practices and technologies to resolve complex technical challenges in one's general area of competence.
•    Develops organizational policies, best practices and management methods that are highly conducive to technical excellence.

Technology Advising: Knowledge of effective advisory methods and ability to provide valued information and advice to clients regarding products, technologies, services and solutions for a specific technology domain.

Level Basic Understanding: 
•    Provides information regarding application of a specific technology within one's own organization.
•    Describes the roles, respons