Description

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.

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 100-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

Job Summary

Caterpillar’s Drivetrain team designs systems and components, including axle housings, spindles, planet carriers, cases, clutch and brake components that are used across Caterpillar machines and OEM applications. The team is also a centralized resource for designing and validating drivetrain components that are exposed to ground induced structural loads. These components are primarily cast iron, cast steel, or steel forgings. This role is for an experience metallurgist to provide technical guidance and support for the extended design team. This specific role includes:

• Iron Casting Metallurgical & Process expert for the Drivetrain Component Design Team
• Support Design Engineers in material selection and design for manufacturing on new part designs
• Provide technical guidance and assessment in resolving metallurgical field failures and part quality issues.
• Provide technical assessment of foundry selection and approve metallurgical validation for sourcing projects.

What the candidate will do:

New Part Design

• Guiding mechanical design engineers in material and heat treat selection for new designs.
• Review designs to ensure they are castable.

Production Support

• Setting technical direction to determine root cause and corrective actions for metallurgical design issues.
• Guide investigation of casting quality issues and provide recommendations on design or process changes to resolve.

Part Sourcing

• Assessing part specific quality risk at the proposed supplier
• Review the suppliers propose rigging and gating design to ensure part quality
• Provide metallurgical technical support during part development
• Review supplier and CAT internal metallurgical analysis results and determine conformance to prints and standards.
• Review and approve metallurgical and casting related PPAP documents.

Education requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science or Metallurgical Engineering
• Advanced English level

What skills the ideal candidate will have:

Analytical Thinking

• Identifying the root cause of an issue and developing effective solutions.

Effective Communications

• Strong leadership and communication skills.

Managing Multiple Priorities

• Good multitask abilities.

Technical Excellence

• Proven experience working in iron casting foundries.
• Advanced knowledge of relationships between manufacturing processes and metallurgical defects.

Product Design – Manufacturing

• Deep technical expertise and practical experience with gray and ductile iron castings.

Additional Information:

• This position will be located in Cienega de Flores
• Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time, domestically and internationally
• Relocation assistance is not available.

Final details

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Posting Dates:

diciembre 3, 2025 - diciembre 7, 2025

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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