Electrical Engineer

Position – Electrical Engineer

Mossville, IL, USA

Client – Caterpillar

Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Preferred Education:
- Master’s degree or PhD

Required Skills for the Electrical Engineer:
- Creativity, verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem solving ability.
- Team player and detail oriented.
- Displays attributes of a critical thinker and leverages innovative ideas.
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.
- Expert ability to perform details calculations to compute and establish manufacturing, construction and installation standards and specifications.
- Expert ability to make sketches, engineering drawings and common computations.
- Expert ability to apply principles of electrical theory to engineering projects.
- Previous experience with computer applications and design software related to engineering field.
- Power conversion knowledge, motor/drive/battery
- Simulations skills
- Documentation
- Presentation

Electrical Engineer Overview:
The main function of an Electrical Engineer is to design, develop, test or supervise the manufacturing and installation of electrical equipment, components, or systems for commercial, industrial, military or scientific use. A typical Electrical Engineer has the ability to make engineering drawings, and read and interpret blueprints.

Responsibilities:
- Supervise the design, development, and testing of the manufacture of electrical equipment, including machinery controls, wiring, and lighting.
- Review and approve the cost effectiveness, reliability and safety of certain design models.
- Discuss estimates for time and cost to complete projects with clients.
- Supervise the simulation and testing of machine/structure/system operation and monitor product quality.
- Direct and coordinate manufacturing, construction, installation, maintenance, support, documentation, and testing activities to ensure compliance with specifications, codes, and customer requirements.
- Inspect completed installations and observe operations to ensure conformance to design and equipment specifications and compliance with operational and safety standards.

Typical task breakdown:
- Collect machine info, engage with different business sections
- Create component / system models with simulation tools
- Delivery quality report and presentations to end customers