**Career Area:** 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. **Your Work Shapes the World** Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe. When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us. **Job Summary:** As a Hydraulic Lab - Test/Validation Engineer you will execute Lab testing of hydraulic components, systems, and related products at the Caterpillar Global R&D Headquarters as part of new product development programs or continuous improvements projects. Major challenges facing incumbents are meeting goals for cost, quality, and performance, and managing multiple priorities. This position must keep up to date on changing clients’ needs as the project progresses, stay current with new technology, and provide guidance and direction on the project to less experienced engineers, technologists, and technicians. Incumbents may be expected to bear significant responsibility for the completion of a project with a major focus on delivery. **What You Will Do:** • Defining test validation requirements. • Performing lab tests to validate components/systems. • Analyzing test data. • Communicate results and make recommendations to customers, suppliers, team members, and other business units. • Identifying and troubleshooting hardware and software issues. • Validating and implementing product solutions. • Documenting findings in technical reports. **Education Requirement:** • Requires a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum • In lieu of an accredited Engineering or Technical degree, an Associate’s degree with at least 7 years of progressive directly related technical experience will be accepted. **Top Candidate will also have:** Excellent analytical skills and a mastery of engineering concepts. Self-starter with strong technical leadership skills. Previous Hydraulic or powertrain product development experience (design, test, or analysis). Demonstrated ability to work on complex assignments. Excellent mechanical aptitude and understanding of mechanical systems. Understanding of hydraulic systems Good hands-on and troubleshooting skills. Strong communication and meeting facilitation background. Ability to work with others in a team-based environment. Experience with data analysis tools. Experience with data acquisition systems. Experience working in a lab test facility. Experience with hydraulic systems and/or components. Experience with Caterpillar NPI and CPI systems. **What Skills You Will Have:** **Accuracy and Attention to Detail:** • Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights. • Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs. • Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy. • Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned. • Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free. **Analytical Thinking:** • 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. • Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, 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. **Decision Making and Critical Thinking:** • Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process. • Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas. • Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes. • Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns. • Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives. **Effective Communications:** • 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. **Technical Excellence:** • Provides effective technical solutions to routine functional challenges via sound technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues. • Effectively performs the technical job aspects, continuously building knowledge and keeping up-to-date on technical and procedural job components. • Applies technical operating and project standards based on achieving excellence in delivered products, technologies and services. • Applies current procedures and technologies to help resolve technical issues in one's general area of technical competence. • Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues. **Project Management:** • Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status. • Plans and estimates simple projects. • Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements. • Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project. • Produces standard project status reports. **Product Testing:** • 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. **Troubleshooting Technical Problems:** • Documents common hardware, software and communications problems and likely resolutions. • Troubleshoots typical technical problems in a specific area. • 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. **Additional Information** The location for this position is Mossville, IL Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate. This position will require less than 10% travel. **What You Will Get:** 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 wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides: + Competitive Base Salary + Annual incentive bonus plan* + 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) *Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines. **Final details** Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status. _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_ _._ For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media \#LI **Summary Pay Range:** $95,640.00 - $143,520.00 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 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:** April 21, 2025 - May 5, 2025 Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen. EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply. Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .