Engineering Project Lead: Machine Controls & Safety

Caterpillar Brazil; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 128,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Tucson, AZ invites an Engineering Project Team Leader to guide machine/vehicle controls and functional safety across programs, delivering safe, productive machines.

You will coordinate with RFT engineering, electronics/software, product support and regulatory teams to drive innovative solutions and improve performance, with on-site work and up to 10% travel. Required: Bachelor’s degree in engineering; prior experience leading controls software development and functional

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent education.
• Prior machine/vehicle level controls software development, tuning and validation experience.
• Prior experience in Functional Safety assessments
• Prior experience with Large Mining Trucks or Quarry Trucks and knowledge of worldwide applications
• Team leadership and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of machine/vehicle level controls by working with various teams across the organization.
• Manage workload and task delegation for sub-team and extended team members.
• Coach junior engineers on controls systems and functional safety concepts
• Ensure controls and electronics requirements are established with functional safety considerations, early in the programs.
• Lead development and evaluation of functional safety concepts and SISTEMA calculations for various NPI programs.
• Support the development and functional safety evaluation of solution layers added to the base machine such as Collision Mitigation Systems, Autonomous operations, Dynamic Energy Transfer system, etc.
• Ensure thorough and efficient validation of control systems and functional safety concepts – SIL/HIL/Proving Grounds.
• Work with functional safety experts to support RIOP wide functional safety evaluations, participate in industry standards/regulatory conferences.
• Review current production software change requests and support software bundle development, verification and validation activities.
• Ensure functional safety impact analysis is performed for any controls/software changes for current production machines.
• Collaborate with product value streams, proving grounds, and cross-functional teams to identify machine performance and controls improvements and resolve product issues.
• Influence machine architecture decisions and support Multi-Generation Product Planning (MGPP) and New Technology Introduction (NTI) initiatives.

Skills

Machine controls

Electronic systems integration

Functional safety

Data-driven analysis

Stakeholder management

Project management

Communication

Requirements analysis

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Tucson, AZ invites an Engineering Project Team Leader to guide machine/vehicle controls and functional safety across programs, delivering safe, productive machines.

You will coordinate with RFT engineering, electronics/software, product support and regulatory teams to drive innovative solutions and improve performance, with on-site work and up to 10% travel. Required: Bachelor’s degree in engineering; prior experience leading controls software development and functional