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Location: Chennai
Company: Caterpillar
Role Definition
Designs, develops, and enhances electro-mechanical systems and mechatronic devices to optimize products and systems.
Responsibilities
- Designing advanced electrical control systems and integrating electrical and mechanical systems.
- Designing and implementing software and procedures to control and enhance electro-mechanical systems and mechatronic devices performance in collaboration with scientists.
- Designing and prototyping mechatronic devices with motors, solenoids, gears, sensors, and springs.
- Identify and address areas of product weakness in finished products.
- Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
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.
Communicating Complex Concepts: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.
Level Working Knowledge
- Uses comparisons to familiar ideas when introducing a technical or novel feature.
- Separates fundamental concepts from supporting details in explaining a product or service.
- Explains products and services with little or no use of technical jargon or advanced vocabulary.
- Emphasizes the most important facts or features of a product or service.
- Perceives lack of audience comprehension; further simplifies explanation when needed.
- 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 Working Knowledge
- 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 to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
Embedded Systems
Knowledge of embedded systems and their applications; ability to develop embedded systems with varying levels of complexity to control the operations of the machine it is embedded within.
Level Working Knowledge
- Describes the basic structure and functioning of an embedded system.
- Explains the commonly found errors in an embedded system.
- Identifies the application and difference between microprocessor and microcontroller.
- Researches and documents upgrades for existing embedded systems.
- Understands and works with embedded programming languages.
Requirements Analysis
Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Level Basic Understanding
- Cites examples of functional and non-functional requirements.
- Describes basic concepts and major activities associated with requirements analysis.
- Explains the life cycle context and scope of requirements analysis.
- Explains the structure and components of effective requirements analysis documents.
Technical Troubleshooting
Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.
Level Basic Understanding
- Describes problem identification, reporting and escalation procedures.
- Explains the underlying concept of using a systematic approach to solve technical problems.
- Identifies available resources and support systems for troubleshooting.
- Describes common hardware, software and communication problems; finds ways to resolve issues.
- Product Development in Manufacturing: Knowledge of methodologies, tools and techniques of product development; ability to design, build and manage manufacturing of new products.
Level Basic Understanding
- Identifies current and prior design and development successes and failures in the organization.
- Summarizes the overall process for developing a new product or service for the organization.
- Names the organizational business units that have input into the development process.
- Describes the basic tools used for design and development.
Product Testing
Knowledge of product testing approaches, techniques and tools; ability to design, plan and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure product quality at all stages of manufacturing.
Level Basic Understanding
- Describes key features and aspects of a specific testing discipline or methodology.
- Describes common errors that are uncovered by product testing.
- Cites examples of testing tools and practices currently in use.
- Names key documentation (paper, audio, video) required during the testing process.
