Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a general 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.
Updated: 06/21/2024
Role Definition
Performs basic tool design tasks with direct supervision.
Daily responsibilities include: interpreting tool orders for critical information, participating in concept reviews with internal customers, creating manufacturing drawings, monitoring performance to estimated hours, and communicating with fabrication personnel to ensure a quality project result.
Responsibilities
- Researching new materials and competitive products.
Organizing, coordinating, and executing the building, testing, and analysis of prototypes.
- Assisting supply specialists and buyers with supplier development and supplier performance.
Overseeing the efforts of drafting and testing specialists.
- Developing and documenting functional requirements and translating into detail design documents.
Participating in buy-build analysis for product components.
- Participating in and supporting proposal preparation, cost estimates, and technical reports.
- Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
Skills Descriptors
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.




Level Basic Understanding:
- Explains characteristics and steps in an effective decision-making process.
- Identifies issues and communicates with others when a decision needs to be made.
- Names decision makers in own environment and cites examples of past decisions.
- Describes types of decisions incumbent may and may not make in own job or function.
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.
Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Explains basic concepts of time and priority management.
- Seeks guidance in detecting and addressing priority conflicts.
- States own business priorities.
- Describes team or unit priorities.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Uses a structured approach in analyzing and resolving technical problems.
- Seeks opportunities for continual learning to maintain technical competence in pursuit of technical excellence.




- Provides examples or case studies demonstrating technical excellence in actual business scenarios.
- Pursues, prepares for and assumes new technical assignments and challenges.
3D Software: Knowledge of the types, features and tools of 3D software; ability to use, implement, test and upgrade the software package in the process of 3D models production.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Assists in designing 3D models using appropriate software.
- Helps others to install and maintain 3D modeling and rendering software.
- Discusses the pros and cons of competitive 3D software from a business perspective.
- Works with the standard features and facilities of 3D software.
- Asks industry experts about the usage and functionality of a particular 3D rendering software.
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.
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 uncovere

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