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Engineering

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.

Caterpillar’s Electrification & Energy Solutions division (E+ES) is focused on advanced power systems development with emphasis on electrification to provide sustainable power solutions to our customers. The E+ES Battery technology team leads the design and validation of all the new battery systems, including strategy, Simulation, Design, Build and Test/Validation.

The **Battery Design & Validation Specialist** serves as the subject matter expert for electrical battery system design, FMEA development, and performance validation. This role is critical in ensuring battery packs, modules, and sub-systems meet stringent requirements for safety, reliability, and performance. The specialist provides deep technical guidance across development stages, leads root cause investigations, and drives continuous improvement of validation processes and tools.

What you will do:

+ Act as the technical authority for battery design and validation within electrification programs.

+ Lead and maintain Design FMEAs, ensuring risks are captured, assessed, and mitigated early in the design cycle.

+ Define and oversee battery validation strategies, including test coverage, methodology, and performance metrics.

+ Develop and manage detailed test plans for electrical performance, thermal behavior, cycle life, and abuse testing.

+ Lead test execution, data analysis, and correlation against system models and requirements.

+ Identify design weaknesses and recommend corrective actions, collaborating closely with design, BMS, and systems engineering teams.

+ Mentor engineers in best practices for FMEA, test planning, and validation execution.

+ Serve as the primary liaison with suppliers and test facilities for component- and system-level validation.

+ Drive continuous improvement in validation processes, automation, and reporting systems.

+ Lead prototype builds, including hands-on assembly, instrumentation and validation of new battery designs

What you have:

**Degree Requirement** Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Engineering preferably in mechanical or electrical engineering

**Technical Excellence** : Experience in battery design, electrical system validation, or reliability engineering, preferably in automotive or related industry. Demonstrated expertise in FMEA and validation practices.

Level Extensive Experience

_Top candidates may also have:_

• Proven track record in leading battery test and validation programs (capacity, power, thermal, abuse, safety, and cycle testing).

• Deep understanding of high-voltage electrical safety practices.

• Proficiency in data acquisition, modeling, and statistical analysis tools (e.g., MATLAB, Python, CAN tools)

**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 Extensive Experience:

• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.

• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.

• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.

• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.

• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.

• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

**Project Management:** Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.

• Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.

• Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.

• Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients.

• Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.

• Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.

**Computer-Aided Design & Engineering:** Knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate and test product design drafts.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Coaches others on orthographic, isometric and axonometric projections.

• Presents complex products and systems graphically.

• Performs manipulations on design objects, such as changing projections and managing drawing layers.

• Directs the matrix computations performed to transform objects in coordinate space.

• Consults on benefits and drawbacks of top-down design vs. bottom-up design.

• Compares and contrasts uses of bird's-eye views and worm's-eye 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 Extensive Experience:

• Coordinates execution of test plans, including resources, strategy, schedules, processes and tools.

• Collaborates with design team to ensure testing considerations are incorporated into system design.

• Recommends tools and techniques for automating, simplifying and enhancing product testing.

• Compares and contrasts alternative testing methodologies and tools.

• Matches testing methodology and tools to product being tested; develops test scenarios and scripts.

• Estimates time, effort and resources required for thorough testing.

**Troubleshooting Technical Problems:** Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing or product development environment.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Evaluates business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution.

• Resolves difficult or high-impact equipment and systems problems.

• Monitors machine performance and history; addresses excessive maintenance or repair needs.

• Coaches others how to resolve integration or communications problems in multi-vendor environment.

• Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach.

• Uses advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems.

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Additional Information

+ The location for this position is Mossville, IL

+ Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position

+ This position may require up to 25% travel

+ Visa sponsorship is not available

Summary Pay Range:

$126,000.00 - $189,000.00

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.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

+ 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 benefits

+ Life Insurance

+ Parental leave

+ Adoption benefits

+ Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.

Posting Dates:

October 2, 2025 - October 16, 2025

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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