Engineer - Engine Performance

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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:

This position is in CFD and Engine Performance team which provides performance and simulation support for Caterpillar Business Units around the globe. The engineer has responsibility to develop software application for gas turbine performance. He or she will work closely with the team members and IT support team to design, develop, and maintain Solar’s performance methods utilizing DevOps and Agile methodology.  This position requires working knowledge to develop a full-stack web interface for Solar's proprietary FASTE software that is used to analyze, predict, and guarantee the performance and emissions of the company's current and future product line.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BE in Mechanical Engineering
• Knowledge of engines or gas turbines and their control and operation
• 10+ years of programming experience
• Strong background in Object-Oriented programming
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• The ability to write and communicate ideas and issues clearly.
• Personal skills include the ability to work well with others and team spirit.
• Experience working with databases and user permissions.

Skill Descriptors
Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
•    Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.
•    Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.
•    Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
•    Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
•    Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
•    Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
•    Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
•    Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.

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.

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 Extensive Experience: 
•    Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
•    Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
•    Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
•    Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
•    Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
•    Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
 Level Working Knowledge: 

• Applied experience developing engineering applications in C, C++, C# is required.
• Additionally, FORTRAN, and Excel VBA development experience would be preferred.
• Windows Software development using Visual Studio utilizing DevOps and/or Git
• Applied successful use of Agile methodology for software or product development.
• Web Development using JavaScript, CGI, Perl, VBScript, and XML.
• Full Stack Web Development with the latest web technologies.
• Experience in REST-based Windows API development
• Experience working with Oracle and SQL Server databases.
• Maintaining Windows and Linux Servers.
• Working knowledge of gas turbine engine software tools and principles

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 Basic Understanding: 
•    Identifies project management tools and requirements within own function.
•    Describes the key objectives, phases and deliverables of a current project.
•    Explains the concepts of phase, activity, task, and deliverable.
•    Gives examples of critical paths in projects.

Computer-Aided Design & Engineering: Knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate and test product design drafts.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Generates specifications for parts or components with CAD software.
•    Reuses design components via reusable libraries following standard procedures.
•    Uses CAD to perform basic drafting such as wire frames, solid objects and array of objects.
•    Performs routine changes to computerized schematics or drawings.
•    Creates views of objects in 2 and 3 dimensions; creates perspective drawings and orthogonal views.

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