01Overview
Career Area:
Engineering
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
Responsible for Fluids design control, including management of engineering changes and controlled product documentation. Maintains and standardizes fluids drawings and database records to ensure accuracy, compliance, and configuration control. Coordinates with engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to support APQP/FMEA inputs, risk evaluation, validation requirements, and controlled release/change-management activities.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering.
Engineering background with demonstrated experience in one or more of the following:
o Product development
o Design control
o Product lifecycle management
o Program or project execution
o Engineering change management
o Product-data or technical-document management
Working knowledge of APQP and FMEA principles.
Ability to interpret and maintain engineering drawings, specifications, technical standards, and controlled product information.
Ability to evaluate technical information, identify risks, and make evidence-based engineering recommendations.
Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to collaborate across engineering and non-engineering functions.
Ability to manage multiple assignments, priorities, and project milestones.
Attention to detail, documentation discipline, and commitment to product quality.
These minimum requirements align with the internally communicated need for an engineering background, product development, program management, APQP, and FMEA.
Preferred Qualifications
Degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering.
Experience with maintenance fluids, lubricants, or related chemical products.
Product knowledge in one or more of the following:
o Gear oils, Engine oils, Hydraulic oils, Transmission and drivetrain oils
o Coolants, Fuels, Greases, Additives, Specialty chemicals
Experience owning or supporting design control for an engineering product portfolio.
Experience creating or revising product drawings, engineering specifications, and technical standards.
Experience maintaining engineering databases, product master data, or product-definition systems.
Experience executing APQP deliverables and developing Design FMEAs.
Experience planning or reviewing verification and validation activities.
Experience with supplier changes, alternate-source qualification, or product-change validation.
Experience working with multidisciplinary and globally distributed teams.
Familiarity with lubricant performance, fluid compatibility, product identification, packaging, labelling, or application requirements.
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 Working Knowledge:
Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.
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.
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 Working Knowledge:
Recognizes changing demands and priorities; validates changes with management.
Obtains information .
