Engineering Manager (Power Systems)
Caterpillar

Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:

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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!

The Engineering Manager position leads a team of project engineers in the designing and testing of generator paralleling switchgear and controls. This position performs technical reviews of project designs as well as support for hardware design, PLC programming, and testing of their team's projects. The Engineering Manager monitors the quality, cost, and schedule of their team's project. They provide technical guidance for design standards for the overall engineering department.

What you will do:

• Lead a team of engineers in the technical design of power and generator control switchgear.
• Lead a team of engineers on project execution while monitoring quality, costing, and timeliness of projects.
• Train, mentor, and develop a team of engineers to improve their overall technical capabilities and align with the engineering department's objectives and strategies.
• Point of technical and commercial escalation for team members.
• Conduct performance and merit reviews for team members
• Actively lead and execute new product development and enhancements to switchgear design and controls.
• Perform technical design reviews of drawings and final testing of switchgear projects.
• Assist with the hardware design, PLC programming, and testing of generator paralleling switchgear controls.
• Represent company with internal and external customers.
• Assist other departments in the application of our products.

What you will have:

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology
• Experience designing, testing, and commissioning highly complex generator control systems.
• Have extensive knowledge of system operations and PLC/Controller based controls
• Have a clear understanding of NEC, UL, ANSI, CSA requirements.

• Ability to accurately evaluate team's workload, and delegate tasks as necessary.
• Ability to edit, teach, and apply new designs to the company standards.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent business and commercial skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Attention to details.

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Contributes to short-term operational plans.
• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
• Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

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 Working Knowledge:
• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Problem Solving : Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

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.

Customer/Market Focus : Understanding of the importance of remaining aware of shifting market priorities and ability to respond to internal and external customer needs in a manner that consistently adds value.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Surfaces new or unexpressed customer needs.
• Focuses product and service features and functions on the customer's critical success factors.
• Develops consistent methods for maintaining customer responsiveness.
• Delivers customer value within parameters of profitability and other targets.
• Escalates systemic problems that could affect customer satisfaction.

Managing People : Knowledge of processes involved in managing people; ability to lead successful teams, and diligently address issues related to performance and conflicts at the workplace.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Assesses the amount of time and resources needed to accomplish a task; delegates work accordingly.
• Explains how the team's work contributes to the success of the organization; creates a shared vision.
• Reviews progress and performance of employees; addresses bottlenecks or concerns impending employee growth.
• Uses multiple channels such as meetings, e-mails, newsletters to communicate important messages with the team regularly.
• Works with employees to set and define performance standards and career development goals; supports in achieving them.

Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.
• Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.
• Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.
• Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients.
• Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.
• Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.

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.

What You Will Get:

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just a salary. Because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day-one benefits, including but not limited to:

• Competitive salary and annual bonus program

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)

• Company-matched 401(k) plan

• Stock option opportunity over time

• 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)

• Strong community involvement

• Additional Information
• The location for this position is Alpharetta, GA
• Domestic relocation assistance is NOT available for this position
• This position may require 10% travel
• Visa sponsorship is not available

Employee benefit details

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

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 .

Posting Dates:
September 20, 2024 - October 11, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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