Test & Validation Senior Associate Engineer
Caterpillar Inc.
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Job summary
Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Test & Validation Senior Associate Engineer for our Corinth, MS remanufacturing facility. You will implement and improve testing, development and validation practices to maximize product quality and support manufacturing readiness.
In this role you will lead efforts in automation, robotics, and CAM tooling, plan procedures, monitor performance, and collaborate to drive cost reduction and reliability improvements across the line.
Qualifications
- Requires a degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrates accuracy and attention to detail across tasks.
- Uses analytical thinking to identify root causes and improvements.
- Applies decision-making skills to complex situations.
- Communicates effectively with stakeholders and teams.
- Shows technical excellence and problem-solving in engineering contexts.
- Manages projects and timelines to achieve goals.
- Designs and executes product testing and validation.
- Troubleshoots technical problems across manufacturing and design.
Responsibilities
- Resolve design or manufacturing issues and ensure manufacturing readiness.
- Adopt new technologies to improve efficiency, cost, and quality.
- Plan and improve testing procedures to be reliable and cost-effective.
- Monitor results, capabilities and performance reliability.
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Job description
Engineering
When you join Caterpillar, you’rejoining 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’tjust 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.
Do you have a passion for helping customers and supporting a sustainable solution? Since 1973, Cat Reman has helped bring the value at the core of every Cat product back to life. Customers look to us to provide a high-quality solution that is good for their business - and promotes sustainability. It’s important to us to deliver. Our team is full of industry leaders. Together, following common values, we share a passion for delivering sustainability benefits that help the company contribute to a circular economy. It’s rewarding to work, with an inspiring team, where every contribution matters.
This position will implement and improve testing, development and validation techniques, processes, tooling and machinery to maximize product quality.
- Resolving issues regarding the design or manufacturing. Ensuring design acceptance and manufacturing readiness.
- Participating in the adoption of new technologies and processes (automation, robotics, computer aided manufacturing software, etc.) to achieve greater efficiency, cost reduction and quality improvement.
- Planning and improving testing procedures and operations to make the test more reliable, efficient and cost-effective.
- Monitoring results, machine and process capabilities and performance reliability.
Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum or equivalent experience working in an Engineering function.
- Explains the importance of accuracy in own function or unit.
- Identifies tasks or outputs that require accuracy and detail-level attention.
- Identifies the procedures for making sure that results are mistake‑free.
- Describes consequences of errors within own unit or function.
- 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.
- Creates and shares advanced analytics
- Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, GR&R, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Generates technical reports and conveys critical information to project stakeholders.
- 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.
- Identifies project management tools and requirements within own function.
- Describes the key objectives, phases and deliverables of a current project.
- Explains the concepts of phase, activity, task, and deliverable.
- Creates and manages large scale project plans.
- Monitors, advises, and mitigates risk to critical path tasks.
- Documents test process and results; prepares and analyzes defect‑tracking reports.
- Summarizes features of a specific product‑testing process and associated procedures.
- Tests components for compliance with functional requirements and established conventions.
- Discusses and compares usability, safety and integration testing.
- Develops product‑testing procedures; participates in selecting testing environment and tools.
- Documents common hardware, software and communications problems and likely resolutions.
- Troubleshoots typical technical problems with hardware failures, PLC inputs/outputs, and performance gaps.
- Works with vendor‑specific diagnostic guides, tools and utilities to discover application problems.
- Adheres to standard troubleshooting procedures to ensure effectiveness of resolutions.
- Participates in setting evaluation standards and criterion for troubleshooting.
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just an hourly wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits along with the potential of annual bonuses.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
- 401k savings plan
- Health savings account (HSA)
- Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Short and long‑term disability coverage
- Life Insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Healthy Lifestyle Programs
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)
- Background Screening
- Drug & Alcohol Screening (Applicants are hereby advised that the Company has implemented a drug and alcohol policy and conducts a testing program, pursuant to Sections 71-7-1, et al., of the Mississippi Code of 1972, Ann. (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”), and you are hereby advised of the existence of said Act.)
Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this position.
Domestic relocation assistance is offered for this position.
Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off‑highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel‑electric locomotives. For 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced‑carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.
$89,210.00 - $133,810.00
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.
- 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
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