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.
Join Caterpillar’s Resource Industries Electrification Solutions team and be at the forefront of building a more sustainable world. As a Senior Electrification Application Lead, you’ll play a critical role in delivering cutting-edge energy transfer solutions that power the next generation of mining operations.
This is more than a job — it’s a chance to work directly with customers and dealers, experience the world, and influence the design and support of groundbreaking technologies like Cat® Dynamic Energy Transfer (DET). You’ll collaborate with engineering, product development, and field teams to influence the designs of our solutions, and develop and execute strategies to deploy them to mining applications. This position is highly visible to external customers and dealers and has a high impact on their perception of Caterpillar as a partner in product development and application. The candidate will be an ambassador for Caterpillar, sharing best practices in a constructive manner.
Cat® Dynamic Energy Transfer is a fully Caterpillar-developed system that can transfer energy to both diesel-electric and battery-electric large mining trucks while they are working around a mine site. It can also charge a machine’s batteries while operating with increased speed on grade, improving operational efficiency and machine uptime.
What you will do:
The Senior Electrification Application Lead provides technical expertise and pre-sales commercial support for RI Electrification worldwide.
Degree Requirement: Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
What skills you will have:
Technical Excellence: Strong technical background in product support, engineering, or field service. Experience with electrification, power systems, heavy equipment or mine site operations.
Effective Communications: Strong communication and facilitation skills. Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information effectively.
Products and Services: Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations. Strong foundation in product support: understanding customer needs, solving problems, and delivering value through service and expertise. A commitment to provide prompt, high quality responses to customer requests which may sometimes require extended workdays and travel.
Influencing Through Expertise: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization.
Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
Team Management: This role is an individual contributor, but you will serve as a leader in organization-wide initiatives that require cross-functional teams.
Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing or product development environment.
Top Candidate Will Also Have:
Deep experience with switchgear, AC distribution and parallel operations and controls.
Mining industry experience in a technical support role .
Experience with design and/or application of Mining products .
Demonstrated high levels of motivation (self-starter / take initiative).
Additional Information:
The primary work location for this role is Tucson, AZ, with a requirement to work on-site full-time at a Caterpillar facility.
This position may require up to 50% travel, including global travel, to support specific sales opportunities, deliver dealer training, support industry trade shows, and conduct installation and design audits.
Domestic relocation assistance is available.
Visa sponsorship, international assignments, or payroll transfers are not available for this role.
Summary Pay Range:
$144,960.00 - $217,320.00
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
This position requires working onsite five days a week.Relocation is available for this position.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:
December 3, 2025 - December 17, 2025
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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