Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Solar Turbines; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a manufacturing engineer to design and optimize production systems on a 2nd shift, ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency. You will analyze equipment, lead improvements, and coach operations staff across complex processes.

Ideal candidates hold an undergraduate ME degree and have deep knowledge of manufacturing processes, lean principles, and change control. This role emphasizes collaboration and technical leadership on site.

Qualifications

• Influencing tactics and ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
• Knowledge of decision-making processes and how to evaluate business situations.
• Experience applying change control in manufacturing environments.
• Engineering knowledge to design and improve manufacturing systems and processes.
• Understanding lean manufacturing principals and their practical implementation.
• Knowledge of electrical, mechanical and logistics equipment used in manufacturing.
• Familiarity with manufacturing methods and processes and ability to oversee production.

Responsibilities

• Identify and implement enhancements to complex manufacturing operations equipment and processes.
• Monitor equipment reliability and address problem areas.
• Provide supervision, coaching and development for operations staff.
• Lead engineering support for planning, development, operation, and maintenance of equipment, processes, or facilities.

Skills

Influencing

Judgment

Change Control

Engineering

Lean Manufacturing

Manufacturing Equipment

Manufacturing Processes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global 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.

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global 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.

Career Area

Manufacturing

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global 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.

2nd Shift

Role Definition

Provides technical expertise necessary to design all aspects of production, costs, quality, compliance to safety guidelines, and environmental requirements for manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Identifying and implementing enhancements and modifications to complex manufacturing operations equipment and processes.
• Monitoring sophisticated equipment and process reliability; identifying and addressing problem areas.
• Providing supervision, coaching and development for operations staff and support areas.
• Leading engineering support on planning, development, operation, and maintenance of equipment, processes, or facilities.

Degree Requirement

Undergraduate degree or equivelant previous ME experience.

Skill Descriptors

Influencing:

Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Achieves influence and impact even when holding a position contrary to the majority.
• Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking substance or impact.
• Leads and presents collaborative assessments that persuasively influence decision makers.
• Advises on techniques to build rapport and commitment to common purpose.
• Determines and leverages the decision-making style of the individual or group being influenced.
• Delivers well-received presentations of cost, benefits, risks, and other considerations.

Judgment and Decision Making:

Knowledge of the decision-making process; ability to carefully evaluate the impact of emerging business situations and choose the best path forward communicating actions and activities that maximize organizational performance.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Discerns between "signal" and "noise" when considering courses of action.
• Selects the right activities to work on from a range of competing priorities.
• Stands by decisions in the face of conflict or unexpected outcome.
• Makes the transition from evaluation to conclusion readily and in a timely manner.
• Revisits decisions when appropriate, but infrequently and without disrupting focus.

Change Control - MFG:

Knowledge of the processes and procedures by which a change is identified, evaluated, approved, monitored and documented; ability to manage changes in the production environment and processes effectively.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Assesses errors that occur during change execution and takes action in correcting these errors.
• Conducts impact analyses to determine the effect change might have on the status of current production environment.
• Implements routine changes to the production environment; documents the changes made.
• Follows the established change control process to ensure the performance of emergency repair and maintenance.
• Prevents unauthorized or unintended deviations in compliance with that of change control policies.

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.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Trains others on most components of engineering as related to manufacturing.
• Guides others on the application of manufacturing industry and organizational best engineering practices and explains their rationale.
• Facilitates the integration of engineering systems and applications for a manufacturing organization.
• Advises others on the key benefits, drawbacks and rationale for engineering standards, policies and practices.
• Monitors the effectiveness and efficiency of processes and improves engineering operations performance.
• Works with various complex engineering operations in a manufacturing environment.

Lean Manufacturing:

Knowledge of the philosophy, principles and implementation approaches of lean manufacturing; ability to integrate and implement lean manufacturing philosophy into existing production and management processes.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Discusses considerations for work cell design and effectiveness monitoring.
• Finds solution for key technical and people problems associated with transformation to lean.
• Explains issues and considerations of implementing lean in own function or area.
• Selects and utilizes tools, techniques and measurements associated with a lean assessment.
• Explains benchmarks and measures of effectiveness of lean.

Manufacturing Equipment:

Knowledge of the electrical, mechanical and logistics equipment used in manufacturing; ability to safely operate, maintain, update and store them.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Monitors methods and requirements for equipment environment to ensure protection against damage.
• Participates in evaluation and selection of new equipment.
• Facilitates the coordination and integration of multi-vendor equipment environments.
• Analyzes equipment history; monitors overall machine performance; evaluates planned upgrades.
• Plans, tests and implements changes to manufacturing infrastructure and environment.
• Ensures that employees are qualified to operate equipment effectively and safely.

Manufacturing Processes:

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

Level Extensive Experience:

• Advises others using industry experience and benchmarks for methodology effectiveness.