Designer / Modeler - CAD

Career Area: Engineering Job Description: About Caterpillar Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. About EPD Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations! JOB PURPOSE: To design and develop moderately complex product and component concepts for release to production in a manner to ensure superior performance, durability, reliability, quality, and serviceability to the worldwide marketplace. Helps maintain top level configurations. JOB DUTIES: The Designer/Modeler is a member of a design and development team that conceives and provides practical and improved product design applications. Emphasis of this position is on conceiving moderately complex product designs and preparing design models. Supports Sr. Designer/Modeler, technologists, and engineers and works under their direction in defining configuration. The Designer/Modeler conceives moderately complex product design concepts and prepares design models using a computer graphics system. Makes calculations, design decisions and necessary analysis and computer simulations. Works closely with Sr. Designer/Modeler, technologists, engineers, technicians, manufacturing personnel and suppliers regarding product design, test and production schedule dates. Provides technical guidance to Manufacturing, Quality, Purchasing, Marketing, Sales, Service, and other departments. Refines and improves product designs by investigating and developing solutions to product design problems. Works with customers, dealers, and other departments throughout the resolution process. Works within established development plans and production release. May recommend approval or rejection of engineering design deviations and change requests submitted by other departments. Provides technical guidance to drafting personnel and assembly or manufacturing processors. Ensures exacting engineering standards are followed for assembly and piece part tolerance, material finish, clearances, etc. Furnishes technical counsel to Layout Drafters, Drafting Technicians, and purchased drafting support in assigned areas of responsibility. Provides guidance to Assemblers and Test Engineers during product buildup and testing. Ensures proper maintenance of production drawings. Travels to foreign and domestic production plants, dealerships, and customer job sites to recommend solutions to design problems and goes to field test locations to assist with the development of engineering projects. Develops unique design features that the Company often patents to gain a competitive advantage. BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE: Although an accredited engineering degree is desired, an incumbent without a degree would typically have 3 to 5 years of progressive, relevant experience to gain a working knowledge of basic engineering disciplines. The amount of experience typically needed would then decrease as the amount of completed, relevant education increases. Pro/E skills are highly desirable. Requires good mechanical and computer aptitude, as well as good communications skills. Additional Information: Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc. Company matched 401k savings plan Health savings account (HSA) Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) Short and long-term disability coverage Life Insurance Paid parental leave Healthy Lifestyle Programs Employee Assistance Programs Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection) Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected applicant. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers. #LI Caterpillar | Caterpillar Careers | Build What Matters It's time to do the work that matters. EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply. Not ready to apply? Submit your information to our Talent Network here. There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar. Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.