Manager Production-Engine Assembly

Caterpillar Brazil; India; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in India is seeking an experienced Engine Assembly Operations Supervisor to oversee and coordinate a complex production line, align with the production plan, and ensure safety and quality.

Responsibilities include daily engine assembly operations, maintaining SOPs and control plans, monitoring line performance, coordinating materials, and training staff to uphold ISO9001/ISO14001 standards. A strong emphasis on safety, quality, and continuous improvement per production targets.

Qualifications

• Problem solving: identify, analyze and resolve organizational or process issues.
• Performance management: apply performance practices to improve individuals and teams.
• Analytical thinking: diagnose root causes using data and logic.
• Decision making: analyze data, stakeholders, and risks to decide.
• Planning and organizing: structure tasks, resources, and schedules effectively.
• Effective communication: convey information clearly and professionally.

Responsibilities

• Create production and quality reports; share with managers and suggest safety/quality improvements.
• Execute daily engine assembly operations per production plan.
• Follow SOPs, torque charts, and control plans.
• Monitor line efficiency, station-cycle time, and resource use.
• Coordinate material availability (bolts, subassemblies, tools).
• Ensure zero stoppages due to manpower, material, or machine issues.
• Conduct daily safety audits and close actions.
• Maintain DPRs, attendance, downtime, and quality defect logs.
• Update training records, skill matrices, and process audits.
• Ensure ISO9001 and ISO14001 documentation compliance.
• Oversee daily activities of production line workers and coaching.
• Train new hires, manage scheduling, and promote collaboration and continuous improvement.

Skills

Problem Solving

Analytical Thinking

Decision Making

Planning and Organizing

Effective Communications

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Career Area: Manufacturing

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.

Role Definition

Oversees and coordinates the activities of a more complex production line, prepares schedules, resolves issues, and ensures adherence to safety and quality standards.

Experience – Engine Assembly 12 to 18 years

Responsibilities

Creating reports and records of production processes, tools issues performance, and inventory; sharing them with managers and providing suggestions to improve safety, productivity and quality.

Execute daily engine assembly operations as per production plan.

Ensure adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), torque charts, and control plans.

Monitor station-cycle time, line balancing, and resource utilization.

Coordinate material availability (bolts, washers, subassemblies, tools).

Ensure zero stoppages related to manpower, material, or machine issues.

Conduct daily safety audits and ensure action closure.

Maintain daily production reports (DPR), attendance, downtime logs.

Prepare quality reports – defects, rework, FTT, torque failures.

Update training records, skill matrix, and process audit scores.

Ensure compliance with ISO9001 and Iso 14001 documentation requirements.

Preparing, maintaining, and updating documentation related to operating procedures and safety and quality standards; ensuring all processes and products meet desired safety and quality standards.

Supervising and directing the daily activities of production lines workers, assigning tasks, ensuring coordination between different teams, ensuring their safety and monitoring their performance.

Training new hires, managing scheduling and work conflicts, monitoring safety, and promoting internal communication to create a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Degree Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

Problem Solving

• Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Level Working Knowledge: Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Performance Management

• Knowledge of successful performance management techniques; ability to apply organization's performance management system, practices, and tools to developing and improving individual, team, and organizational performance.
• Level Working Knowledge: Identifies opportunities to enhance performance, e.g., practice assignments, training, shadowing.
• Ensures performance goals, checkpoints, and feedback focus on behaviors.
• Provides documented input to formal performance review conducted by manager.
• Observes individual performance and provides fair and objective feedback.
• Uses formal and informal rewards and recognition programs for employees.

Analytical Thinking

• Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
• Level Working Knowledge: Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
• Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
• Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
• Identifies the major forces, events, and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
• Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

• Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Level Working Knowledge: Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
• Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
• Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
• Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
• Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Planning and Organizing

• Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.
• Level Working Knowledge: Raises awareness of potential bottlenecks and disruptions to the schedule.
• Breaks tasks into manageable steps that can be incorporated into a personal work plan.
• Escalates concerns over competing or conflicting priorities.
• Monitors progress continuously and adjusts tactics for handling situations on a case by case basis.
• Creates action plans that ensure the accomplishment of responsibilities.

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.
• Level Working Knowledge: Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Caterpillar: Confidential Green Engine Assembly-JD Accuracy and Attention to Detail

• Level Working Knowledge: Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
• Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
• Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
• Learn from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
• Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.

Additional information: This job required 5days working from office.

Posting Dates: August 25, 2026 - September 8, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar. Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.