Senior Electronic Component Engineer (Monterrey)

Role Definition

Design, development, integration, validation, and technical delivery of advanced electrical and electronic systems and components—including displays, telematics, controllers, and network management solutions for machine and engine applications.

Responsibilities

• Oversee compliance with development processes and regulations for electrical and electronic systems and components.
• Investigate and troubleshoot all technical issues related to electrical and electronic systems and components.
• Manage and negotiate with electrical and electronic equipment vendors for the development of systems and components.
• Mentor craftsmen, technicians and engineers in the development of electrical and electronic systems and components.

Education Requirements

Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mechatronics Engineering curriculum. Advanced English‑speaking level is required.

Effective Communications

• Reviews others’ writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Technical Excellence

• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Project Management

• Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or the equivalent to track project progress and status.
• Under guidance, 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.
• Demonstrated experience in supplier‑relationship management, including technical reviews, performance management, sourcing support, and issue escalation.

Electronics Engineering - HTH

• Trains others on designing complex integrated circuits.
• Anticipates the challenges and opportunities associated with creating printed circuit boards.
• Interprets alternative interfaces between hardware and software and associated requirements and considerations.
• Advises on matching methodology, materials and tools to the electronic product that is being built.
• Consults on engineering multiple electronic circuits, components or devices.
• Evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of analog and digital circuits.
• Experience with hardware and software integration.
• Circuit design, analysis, and troubleshooting for complex electronic systems.
• Strong working knowledge of CAN J, Automotive Ethernet, and wireless technologies such as Bluetooth, NFC, and cellular connectivity.
• Experience with wireless certification, regulatory compliance, and design considerations for general markets.

Product Design - HTH

• Monitors each phase of the design procedure to ensure overall operation meets standards.
• Trains others on major processes of product design; directs the conception of each component.
• Advises others on the development of multiple products and their architectures.
• Delivers improvement plans to senior management and compares the outcome of the design against the architecture.
• Evaluates feedback from customers and consults on functional weaknesses.
• Controls design and development costs of a proposed product through effective resource coordination.
• Lead requirements gathering with internal customers, translate business and technical needs into clear engineering requirements, perform gap assessments, and communicate expectations effectively to suppliers and development partners.

Reliability Management - HTH

• Selects appropriate tools and methods to ensure reliability expectations in hardware products.
• Participates in product reliability and quality assurance standard processes to meet process demands.
• Conducts performance and reliability testing for a specific hardware product or product group.
• Implements reliability activities and tasks for product development and maintenance plans.
• Analyzes common hardware reliability failures; provides corrective action plans.

Mechanical Engineering - MFG

• Works with basic, routine components of the mechanical engineering discipline in manufacturing.
• Performs basic installation, testing, maintenance and repairs for machines, engines and other equipment.
• Uses software to draft drawings or writes specifications for specific mechanical engineering projects.
• Assists senior staff to resolve unusual mechanical problems; recommends ideas.
• Follows relevant standards, policies and practices in mechanical engineering operations; reports violations.

Supplier Management - MFG

• Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks.
• Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers.
• Resolves routine supplier issues; escalates non‑routine issues up chain of command.
• Research alternative vendors or suppliers; participates in supplier selection.
• Works with suppliers to ensure that purchases meet delivery date and quality specifications.

Additional Information

Work schedule: Monday – Friday (7am – 4pm). Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León. Travel: up to 15% of the time, domestically and internationally. Domestic relocations are available.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

The Caterpillar Code of Conduct states that we will select, and place employees based on their qualifications for the job to be performed, without regard to race, religion, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or disability. In this company we do not request pregnancy tests, nor HIV tests as requirements for employment entry, permanence or promotion.