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Job Description:

Role Definition:

Provides the technical expertise needed to support production, cost, quality, safety compliance, and environmental requirements for fuel injector assembly. Pontiac Fuel Systems produces leading fuel injectors and assemblies for off-highway diesel and dual-fuel applications worldwide. This role is critical to improving safety, quality, efficiency, and cost effectiveness across test processes for mechanically driven injectors.

What You Will Do:

• Ensure test benches are correlated with each other daily.
• Monitor bench drift that may contribute to First Test Pass failures.
• Monitor First Test Pass performance by product and part number for mechanically driven injectors.
• Upgrade obsolete systems within test benches.
• Create standard practices for test bench alignments.
• Monitor sophisticated equipment and process reliability, identifying and addressing problem areas.
• Provide direct supervision, coaching, and development for operations technical staff and support areas.
• Lead engineering support for the planning, development, operation, and maintenance of equipment, processes, and facilities.

Degree Requirement:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a technical discipline with experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

What Skills You Have:

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

• Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
• Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
• Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
• Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
• Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Engineering - MFG: Knowledge of processes, techniques and methods of engineering in a manufacturing environment; ability to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems and processes that safely realize a desired objective or invention.

• Assists in problem resolution, drafting and writing specifications for engineering practices.
• Works with basic, routine components of the engineering discipline in manufacturing.
• Performs basic installation, maintenance and repairs for a specific engineering function.
• Follows relevant standards, policies and practices in engineering operations.
• Reports unusual engineering issues and considerations regarding manufacturing operations to senior staff.

Manufacturing Processes: Knowledge of existing product manufacturing methods, technologies and processes; ability to execute, plan, manage and monitor the entire manufacturing process.

• Assesses associated phases, activities, deliverables and processes.
• Documents relevant standards, policies and practices.
• Follows standard manufacturing processes to conduct production activities.
• Researches new technologies to be integrated into existing manufacturing process.
• Explains tools, techniques and documents used for process monitoring and control.

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.

• 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 analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decisions on resolution.
• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Top Candidates May Also Have:

• Experience with fuel systems testing for mechanically driven injectors.

Additional Information:

• This position requires the selected candidate to work on-site five days a week in the Pontiac, IL facility.
• Domestic relocation assistance is available.
• VISA sponsorship IS available for this position.
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Summary Pay Range:

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

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

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