Career Area:
Manufacturing
Job Description:
About the Role:
Support all areas of the gas turbine business by developing and implementing production plans, repairs, and solutions for a wide variety of parts required across the gas turbine packages.
What You Will Do:
- Maintain, update, and create manufacturing production planning for a large variety of gas turbine engine and package parts.
- Provide manufacturing services to other Solar Turbines CAMs and Suppliers who are at capacity.
- Support Repair Development Engineers to create new repair plans for overhaul engine parts.
- Create instruction sheets and Baan production orders to repair and create gas turbine parts.
- Source materials for part creation and repairs.
- Work with supply chain engineers to create 3rd party manufacturing plans.
- Read and interpret engineering drawings to create adequate manufacturing plans.
- Apply ASME Y14.5 Geometric Dimensioning and tolerancing to manufacturing plans.
- Use trigonometry and machining fundamentals to calculate appropriate parallelism, and runout conditions needed machine sand-castings and forgings to engineering specification.
- Use a combination of engineering and machining fundamentals to propose acceptance or repair of discrepant parts to MRB design engineers.
- Read and interpret CMM reports.
- Support multiple shifts of shop floor mechanics and machinists with technical solutions to improve ergonomics, reduce cycle time, and reduce tooling.
- Support on-time-delivery of turbine parts by maintaining frequent verbal communication between supervisors, team leads, and schedulers.
- Cover for other manufacturing engineers when team members are absent.
- Lead containment, root-cause, and corrective action for all high frequency defects, escapes, and scrap parts in a timely manner.
- Interface closely with machinists to create appropriate work holding, time standards, and routings.
- Use Creo Parametric CAD software to interrogate part dimensions and create internal and external manufacturing planning drawings.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, or related Engineering discipline; 7+ years of experience in machining in lieu of a degree
- Knowledge of machining manufacturing operations.
- Proficiencies in Baan, Creo, Windchill, SFIS, GD&T, 3D modeling - Creo preferred.
- Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to be a team player.
- Possess emotional intelligence to understand team dynamics
- Proficient knowledge in non-standard fixturing methods
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in Creo Parametric
- Proficiency in ASME Y14.5 Geometric Dimensioning and tolerancing
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Summary Pay Range:
$112,704.00 - $169,056.00
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
