Design Engineer - Electrical

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 electrical 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 electrical 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 electrical engineering fundamentals, electrical architecture design using complex technical principles.
• Manufacturing: In-depth knowledge of electrical designs (schematics, harnesses, control panels, switchgear layouts), component selection, electrical assembly practices, 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 electrical 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

• As a Lead Engineer, you will directly conceive and provide practical product design applications using complex technical principles. Emphasis of this position is on creating concepts and directing the design and development of complex Electrical projects. Experience in Eplan, WSCAD, Creo, Creo Schematic, AutoCAD design tools, and Teamcenter is a must.
• Prepares concept, design, development, and feasibility studies of complex engineering projects. Prepares development plans and is responsible for meeting scheduled dates. Acts as the development team leader by interacting with plant/manufacturing locations and various engineering departments.
• Candidate will work with the Product Definition / Global Counterpart to understand the product requirements and collaborates within Engineering and other cross-functional teams to provide a solution that meets the form, fit and function. In doing so, the incumbent must have a sound knowledge on the electrical regulation and standards. Candidate will directly work with compliance and regulations team to ensure the product design meets the local regulations where the product will be destined to operate.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers on product/project needs and to complete their portions of products project to ensure development schedules are met on time. Drive standardization, modular design and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate and oversee the creation of designs and models, analytical work, drawing packages, design guides, and other engineering-related documents as needed. Candidate must be able to articulate the Bill of Material changes to incorporate the new designs.
• Candidate is responsible for the Design Reviews of enclosure, main system, components, and sub-systems with the cross-functional teams at dedicated meetings and updating the concept or design as necessary to respond to customer specifications changes.
• Candidate must have good communication skills to work with the Global Cross functional teams, packagers and other channel partners to ensure the projects are delivered on time, meets quality and achieves cost targets.
• The applicant must also support Global Manufacturing facilities to address their queries on electrical design and resolve the quality issues in timely manner.
• Candidate to have sound knowledge on the Generator, Control Systems, Power Systems, AC/DC Distribution, Alternators, Breakers, etc. are preferred. Proven knowledge of different Electrical codes (CE, UL, NEC), FMEA development and experience with diesel and alternate fuels for engines and gensets are added advantages.

Required Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering / electrical & Electronics Engineering with 5 years of relevant experience.
• Incumbent must be able to demonstrate the ability to gain a mastery of complex engineering and manufacturability concepts.
• Must have a good electrical aptitude with ability to develop product concepts. Requires strong leadership ability and good communications skills.
• Prior / Proven experience in containerized genset packaging industry.

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:

March 31, 2026 - April 14, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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