Mechanical Design Engineer – Electric Power

Career Area:

Engineering

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Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world‑class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands.

We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

Join Caterpillar’s fastest‑growing division as a Mechanical Design Engineer and help shape the future of power generation. In this hands‑on role, you'll be the engineering expert on the shop floor, solving problems in real time, improving designs, and ensuring our generator sets deliver unmatched performance and reliability. If you thrive in a fast‑paced production environment and love seeing your engineering work come to life, this is the place to make an impact.

• Provide hands‑on mechanical engineering support for generator sets (40–750 kW) built in Seguin, ensuring smooth production and quick resolution of shop‑floor issues.
• Drive engineering solutions through Interim Corrective Actions (ICAs) and Permanent Corrective Actions (PCAs) to protect build continuity and ship dates.
• Update and improve product, component, and system designs to meet customer needs, manufacturability standards, and production capabilities.
• Collaborate with regulatory partners to maintain required certifications (IBC, CSA, uL).
• Lead and support quality investigations, root‑cause analysis, and corrective actions for product and production issues.
• Provide technical guidance and maintain close communication with Assemblers and Test Engineers during build, validation, testing, and analysis.
• Maintain accurate engineering documentation and ensure design changes meet configuration and production standards.
• Work with operations and supply chain teams to optimize designs for cost, quality, assembly efficiency, and reliability.
• Support generator sets products across the full lifecycle, including sustaining engineering and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate with cross‑functional and global engineering teams to align design intent and production readiness.

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with 1–2 years of relevant design experience OR Associate/technical engineering degree with 4+ years of applicable design experience

• Effective Communications: Working knowledge and understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
  • 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
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  Working 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.
  • Recognizes changing…