Systems Engineer

JOB TITLE:  Systems Engineer     
LOCATION:  Peoria, IL  
ON SITE/HYBRID/REMOTE:  Onsite 
SALARY:  $46-50/hr

BENEFITS:    
•    10 paid holidays per year
•    2 weeks of paid time off per year, the current year is pro-rated based on start date
•    Access to the company’s medical insurance, including dental and vision
•    Eligibility for life insurance and disability coverage for short or long-term disabilities or long- term care needs
•    401k eligibility with employer contribution annually
•    Reimbursement for relocation expenses up to a certain amount on a case-by-case basis
•    Yearly bonus based on company performance
•    Visa sponsorship

JOB DESCRIPTION/TYPICAL TASK BREAKDOWN:
-    Responsible for gathering connectivity feature requests from customers. Follows policies, practices and standards for determining functional and non-functional requirements. 
-    Participating in addressing business requirements for applications and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital solutions that meets business results.
-    Collaborate with performing organizations with respect to deliverables associated with requirements. 
-    Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements. Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools and techniques for requirements analysis.
-    Collaborate with Digital, IC&S and product groups to design an application's technical infrastructure, such as specific databases, utilities, verification and validation approaches.
-    Will require interfacing with customers including Construction Industries, Resource Industries, Energy & Transportation, and Aftermarket.
-    Assist in creating, prioritizing, and maintaining the connectivity feature request backlog.
-    Participates in the technical design of a specific application or solution (on-board/off-board). Selects and presents design alternatives for application(s) of small to medium complexity. Defines tasks, activities, deliverables, and key concerns of technical design. Assists in reviewing and documenting technical application designs.
-    Leading the evaluation and deployment of new digital technologies and solutions to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities.
-    Works with specific development platforms, system and program design tools.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
-    In this role you will be involved in specifying functional requirements and developing solution concepts to address customer needs across on-asset electronic systems and our digital platforms. You will be responsible for gathering new customer connectivity feature requests, refining these requests, guiding them through the architecture, development and validation process and ensuring their timely delivery. In this role you will collaborate with Digital architecture, platform and applications teams and execute on new technology implementation, research and evaluation of emerging digital technologies and solutions. 
-    This position will be in Peoria, IL within Enterprise Connectivity team inside the Digital organization which has enterprise accountability for telematics and telecommunications product line strategy, rationalization, quality, and cost. This position will be critical in gathering connectivity (telematics) requirements for various projects across the industries and business units, consolidating and rationalizing that input, and considering tradeoffs in costs and functionality to drive optimal enterprise solutions for the global market. You will also be accountable for the delivery of the resulting product line solutions for factories and aftermarket.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
-    Bachelor’s degree and Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field
-    Minimum of 5 years exp in this capacity 

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:
-    Strong accountability, planning/organization, and teamwork
-    Must have demonstrated analytical skills and the ability to perform complex assignments  
-    Requires a self-starter with strong technical skills  
-    Must have ability to communicate technical information effectively with team members and others in the work group, as well as employees in other business units, customers, and suppliers. 
-    Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
-    Systems Thinking: Knowledge of the critical interdependencies among individual system elements that help and hinder performance; ability to plan and design solutions that synchronize resources to achieve business results.
-    Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
-    Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.

Salary : $46 - $50