Electrical Engineer 5

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Here is the new opportunity:

Electrical Engineer 5 (81632-1)

Tucson, AZ, Peoria, IL

24 Months Contract

Job Description:-

Summary:

This position will have responsibility for defining and validating high voltage electrical components and systems (50V to over 1000V) and supporting powertrain integration for electrification programs (including diesel-electric, battery-electric, and hybrid machines), from concept through production. This position will be accountable for translating system requirements into appropriate high voltage electrical system designs while ensuring alignment with key safety standards. It will also have accountability for electrical system auditing, troubleshooting, validation, and issue resolution to ensure alignment to safety and regulatory standards and reliability expectations.

Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Analyzing HV systems for proper protections and arc flash mitigation, using tools like ETAP, Pspice
• Creating electric powertrain system and sub-system diagrams
• Ensuring proper overload protection device selection and coordination
• Defining, integrating, and validating high voltage components in machine powertrain applications
• Driving requirements definition in support of electrical safety standards (IEEE, NFPA, IEC, ISO, UN)
• Assisting technical leads in conveying software requirements and component electronic information for HV diagnostics, events, and warnings to the various controls teams
• Virtual audits of HV powertrain systems for grounding, bonding, and cable selection / routing
• Supporting machine commissioning by evaluating compliance with standards, documenting and resolving issues and verifying safe operating procedures
• Development of HV system design guides, leveraging best practices and lessons from prior machine projects
• Sizing high voltage cables in powertrain applications
• Troubleshooting and analysis of field data
• Educating process partners on the hazards and best practices for working on high voltage electrical systems

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

-Electrical integration engineer supporting a range of deliverables and projects for HV system integration on Caterpillar machines.

Typical task breakdown:

-See job description

Interaction with team:

-Heavy collaboration; locally and with global team

Team Structure

-Manager overseeing 10-15 engineers, experienced tech leads, SMEs

Work environment:

-95% office with occasional trips to Tech Center or PPG

Education & Experience Required:

• Years of experience: 10+
• Degree requirement: BS Engineering (ME, EE primarily, unless they are working in this space already then I would consider other)
• NO 2 year degree’s
• Open to Master’s with 8+ years
• Do you accept internships as job experience: No
• Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: EV systems integration or test, Power systems design/analysis/test

Top 3 Skills

• Initiative
• Collaboration
• Intellectual Curiousity (appetite to learn)

Additional Technical Skills

(Required)

• Experience with systems over 300V DC
• Strong grasp of electrical theory
• Microsoft products

(Desired)

• Knowledge of electrical standards, IEC, ISO, NFPA, IEEE
• Fuse coordination, cable sizing, arc flash, short circuit
• etap, pspice, matlab, visio, Creo schematics.