Career Area:Engineering
Job Description:Job Summary:The Development & Research Specialist plays a key role in advancing Caterpillar's next-generation electrification technologies by overseeing laboratory validation activities and supporting the integration of high-voltage systems. This position combines technical coordination, project execution, vendor and contractor management, and ownership of lab safety practices to ensure reliable, safe, and effective testing of innovative energy and powertrain solutions.
Additional Information:- This position is located in Mossville, IL.
- Minimal travel 0-10% is required.
- Domestic relocation assistance is not offered for this position.
- Visa sponsorship is not offered for this position.
- This position is based in office, 5 days per week.
What you will do: - Tests products, analyzes test data and makes modifications to ensure compliance with specifications and requirements.
- Provides technical support to internal partners, suppliers and team members throughout the product development and implementation process.
- Integrates components and materials, assuring compliance with specifications and requirements.
- Builds, tests and modifies product prototypes using working models or theoretical models. Evaluates new product designs for technical feasibility and compliance with technical standards.
What you will have:- 5 years or more of relevant technical experience and background in electrical/electrification/integration of high-voltage
- Experience managing multiple projects across procurement, coordination between contractors, lab testing and validation, and other priorities
- Knowledge and experience working with transformers
- Experience and foundational knowledge with following and documenting industry safety standards, codes, and meeting safety guidelines
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Extensive experience and knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
- Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
- Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
- Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
- Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
- Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
- Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
Technical Excellence: Extensive experience and knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and
provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
- 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.
Project Management: Extensive experience and 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.
- 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.
Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Extensive experience and knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to
anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing or product development environment.
- Evaluates business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution.
- Resolves difficult or high-impact equipment and systems problems.
- Monitors machine performance and history; addresses excessive maintenance or repair needs.
- Coaches others how to resolve integration or communications problems in multi-vendor environment.
- Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach.
- Uses advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems.
Top Candidates Will Have Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or a fundamental related engineering degree
Site electrification experience
Knowledge and experience in Power Electronic Controls Systems and CANape Software
This position will be posted until 11:59PM on 08/19/2026.Summary Pay Range:$128,470.00 - $192,710.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
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