Caterpillar Job Openings – Design Engineer – Peterlee

Job Description:

To direct and participate in the design and development of new product concepts and complex engineering projects for release to production in a manner to ensure products provide superior performance, durability, quality, and serviceability.

Job Responsibilities:

• Uses technical expertise and product knowledge to play the leadership role in the problem resolution process when interfacing with Test and Evaluation, Service, Plant personnel, suppliers, and consultants.
• Prepares development plans and is responsible for meeting scheduled dates.
• Conducts technical evaluations of major systems on competitive products.
• Acts as the development team leader by interacting with Plant locations and various engineering departments.
• Works with manufacturability teams resolving problems with manufacturing and statistical process controls.
• Coordinates product tests with prove design and prototype build up and test areas. Provides guidance to other engineers responsible for portions of the product project to ensure development schedules are met.
• Evaluates, defines, and resolves design and manufacturing problems.
• Prepares concept, design, development, and feasibility studies of complex engineering projects.
• Conceives and provides practical product design applications using complex technical principles. Emphasis of this position is on creating concepts and directing the design and development of complex engineering projects.
• Delegates portions of the project to other engineers and leads and coordinates the design, analysis, and computer simulation effort.
• Travels to foreign and domestic plants, dealerships, and customer job sites to solve design problems or to field test locations to evaluate a product improvement.

Job Requirements:

• Evaluates, defines, and resolves design and manufacturing problems.
• Conceives and provides practical product design applications using complex technical principles. Emphasis of this position is on creating concepts and directing the design and development of complex engineering projects.
• Prepares concept, design, development, and feasibility studies of complex engineering projects.
• Works with manufacturability teams resolving problems with manufacturing and statistical process controls.
• Coordinates product tests with prove design and prototype build up and test areas. Provides guidance to other engineers responsible for portions of the product project to ensure development schedules are met.
• Conducts technical evaluations of major systems on competitive products.
• Uses technical expertise and product knowledge to play the leadership role in the problem resolution process when interfacing with Test and
• Evaluation, Service, Plant personnel, suppliers, and consultants.
• Delegates portions of the project to other engineers and leads and coordinates the design, analysis, and computer simulation effort.
• Prepares development plans and is responsible for meeting scheduled dates.
• Acts as the development team leader by interacting with Plant locations and various engineering departments.
• Travels to foreign and domestic plants, dealerships, and customer job sites to solve design problems or to field test locations to evaluate a product improvement.

Job Details:

Company: Caterpillar

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Peterlee, England, United Kingdom

Application Deadline: N/A

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