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Senior Design Engineer
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Senior Design Engineer
Senior Design Engineer – Electrification & Energy Solutions (E&ES)
Career Area: Engineering
At Caterpillar Inc., your work shapes real progress. Join a global team where innovation isn’t just talked about—it’s delivered. Caterpillar empowers engineers to solve challenging problems, creating sustainability across industries.
About the Role
As the world transitions to smart, electrified infrastructure, Caterpillar’s Electrification & Energy Solutions (E&ES) division builds the next generation of zero-emission technologies.
We’re looking for a Senior Design Engineer to join the UK Rapid Electrification Development (RED) team. In this dynamic role, you’ll take concept-to-deployment responsibility for demonstrating Caterpillar’s electrified machine solutions—working in cross-functional task forces alongside engineering, build, and customer teams to accelerate meaningful progress.
Your work will stretch into:
- ** Customer-driven problem-solving:** Directly engaging with customers, customer-facing teams, and production units.
- ** Hardware-first engineering:** Actively contributing to prototyping and validation of new electric powertrain systems.
- ** Global impact:** Solutions addressing real-world challenges from concept through mass deployment.
- ** Rapid development cycles:** Operating at pace in customer-facing environments, with flexible work artefacts like DFMEA, DFM, and GD&T.
Job Title: Senior Design Engineer
Grade: 23 Salary: £57,737 – £86,605 per annum Location: Peterborough, UK – On-site, 5 days a week Reference Number: Not provided
Key Responsibilities
Core Engineering Leadership
- Lead concept and detailed design activities (mechanical/electrical) for electrified OEM machines and subsystems, guiding them from ideas, to prototypes, to commercial validation.
- Drive technical recommendations and decisions through empowered “next-problem-solving” taskforces, bridging engineering, manufacturing, and customer teams.
- Provide stakeholder-driven oversight—aligning technical activity plans, decision rationale, and project challenges for leadership and broad impact.
Customer & Commercial Focus
- Own the full lifecycle of demonstrator or pre-production machines: from translating customer requirements into technical needs, through iterative testing, to ensuring Case program-ready field performance.
- Collaborate directly with customers and commercial teams to validate solutions, troubleshoot challenges, and deliver practical solutions addressing real-world machine applications.
Cross-Functional Development
- Partner with build, validation, and systems teams to iteratively improve demonstrator machines, driving rapid development loops within tight timelines.
- Partner with compliance, regulatory, and certification teams to ensure designs meet market and market-region requirements (e.g., country-specific safety standards, EMI, and environmental approvals).
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Strategic Problem-Solving & Improvement
- Lead technical investigations, design reviews, root cause determinations, and preventative design activities to eliminate non-conformances and vulnerabilities.
- Champion continuous improvement: promote上がり (durability), industry (safety), and overall customer satisfaction.
Teammate Growth & Cultural Contribution
- Mentor junior engineers and cross-team peers, fostering a culture of ownership, efficiency, and adaptability.
- Contribute actively to cross-project technical standards, documentation, and tooling enables hybrid (definition or intent-cycle) migration.
What You Bring
Essential
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related STEM discipline—or equivalent qualifying experience within the product-development spheres.
- Track record of delivering mechanical or electrical design solutions across lifespan stages—from initial design to successful prototype validation on commercial products.
- Technical leadership experience evident through tangible influence: سبوكين حدلى designing direction, driving engineering decisions, and championing collaboration.
- Proven fast-paced problem-solving skills with the ability to multitask under tight deadlines to ensure on-time delivery.
Nice to Have
- Experience designing electrified systems, powertrains, or hybrid products at OEM or Tier 1 level.
- Knowledge of ePowertrain technologies, HV/LV system integration, and classifying system risk/challenge (e.g., semiconductors, traction battery groups).
- Tested experience in pre-production environments, DFMEA/DFMEA-style risk assessments, and prototype validation (including customer demo readiness programmes).
- Understanding of automotive/E&ES Spokkane-Bay certification classifications (e.g., ultra-low emission systems).
- Hands-on experience leveraging CAD platforms like PTC Creo (Parametric) or Solidworks, with familiarity in sheet-metal design, system-gen, or structured finite-element models.
- With sensitivity to Design for Assembly (DFA), Reliability methods, and band/operation documentation (e.g., Master Publishing).
Key Benefits
Life at Caterpillar is about more than the mission—it’s about creating inspiring workplaces for everyone.
- Flexibility: 25 days annual leave + options for holiday purchase arrangements.
- Growth: Up to 12% annual bonus tied to performance reviews.
- Investment: Contributory pension scheme—Caterpillar doubles up to 10% of your contribution.
- Ownership: Contributory share scheme—Caterpillar matches 50% of eligible employee contributions, helping build stakeholder in collective success.
- Flexible benefits: Choose enhanced options including updates to health care, dental, EV leases, and more.
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About the Team
Caterpillar’s Electrification & Energy Solutions (E&ES)
Caterpillar is the market leader in delivering construction equipment, mining hardware, industrial gas turbines, and smart connectivity—powering the infrastructure of a greener, smarter tomorrow. Our work moves industries forward while safeguarding the environment.
In Electrification & Energy, a global, multi-discipline team turns eventuality into game-changing solutions. We pioneered eMachines and electrified powertrains for exhaustive environments, now ready to deploy innovative, sustainable systems delivering fewer emissions and greater productivity.
Culture and Commitment
The Caterpillar culture is built on five core values: Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork, Commitment, and Sustainability. Our team leverages these to place a special emphasis on the melding of human skill-sets, cutting-edge engineering, and robust collaboration.
“An employee’s contribution makes the Caterpillar culture. Let us be the catalyst pushing these values forward in all that we do.”
Additional Details
📅 Application closes: Midnight (GMT), July 9th, 2026 💡 Due process: All criteria provided are mandatory assessment points. While flexibility may occur if quality pool is insufficient during vacances, the advertised requirements are minimum expectation.
Equal Opportunity Notice
Caterpillar Inc. invites applications from all qualified candidates without discrimination based on race, colour, creed, sex, gender-identity characteristics, pregnancy, political affiliation or ideology, religion, alienage, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, or veteran status.
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