Technology Mgr

Caterpillar; Chennai; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar in Chennai seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead and develop engineering teams across Engine and Electrical installations, driving product development, system integration, validation, and continuous improvement. The role requires coordinating staffing, performance, and cross-functional execution onsite in Chennai.

The position emphasizes delivering on-time, within-budget outcomes with strong customer focus and strategic planning responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum. Preferably Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Leads and develops engineering teams across multiple installations and product domains.
• Drives product development, system integration, validation, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Managing staffing, development, and performance management for engineering teams; motivating and developing project and team leaders.
• Providing specialized engineering technical support and consulting across the organization.
• Assisting with long-duration engineering initiatives to achieve engineering plans and product quality.
• Maintaining release and material plans; driving programs to completion on time and within budget.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Staffing management

Project planning

Customer focus

Problem solving

Education

Engineering degree (Mechanical or Electrical)

Job 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.

Job Definition

Leads and develops Systems Engineering teams across Engine Installation, Hydraulics Installation, Electrical Installation, Heavy Structures, Light Fabrications, and Work Tools, supporting MWL products across NPI, NTI, and Current Product Maintenance. Provides technical leadership and drives effective execution of product development, system integration, validation, production support, and continuous product improvement.

Responsibilities

• Managing staffing, development, and performance management programs for engineering teams; motivating and developing project and team leaders.
• Providing specialized engineering technical support and consulting services to various areas of the organization.
• Assisting with high-impact, long duration engineering initiatives and projects; ensuring achievement of engineering plan and product quality.
• Maintaining product release plans and material plans; driving programs to completion on time and within budget.

Degree Requirement

Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum. Preferably Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Skill Descriptors

Customer Focus

Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.

Level Extensive Experience

• Facilitates creation of the 'right' products and services to resolve customer business issues.
• Fosters strong customer relationships via delivery on commitments, open communication, and on-going feedback/improvement.
• Advises others on creating customer focused environments in various scenarios.
• Anticipates customer needs, focusing efforts to proactively meet needs and exceed customer expectations.
• Measures and observes customer satisfaction levels to ascertain and implement service improvement alternatives.
• Communicates and models the criticality of customer focus as an organizational strategy.

Planning

Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

Level Working Knowledge

• Contributes to short-term operational plans.
• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
• Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyse 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.

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 Extensive Experience

• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
• Analyses and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Technical Excellence

Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

Level Extensive Experience

• 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, analysing, 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.

Managing People

Knowledge of processes involved in managing people; ability to lead successful teams, and diligently address issues related to performance and conflicts at the workplace.

Level Working Knowledge

• Assesses the amount of time and resources needed to accomplish a task; delegates work accordingly.
• Explains how the team's work contributes to the success of the organization; creates a shared vision.
• Reviews progress and performance of employees; addresses bottlenecks or concerns impending employee growth.
• Uses multiple channels such as meetings, e-mails, newsletters to communicate important messages with the team regularly.
• Works with employees to set and define performance standards and career development goals; supports in achieving them.

Product Design and Development

Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.

Level Extensive Experience

• Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.
• Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.
• Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.
• Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.
• Advices on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.
• Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.

This position requires working onsite five days a week. Relocation is available for this position. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates

October 15, 2026 - October 22, 2026

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