Senior Engineering Manager, MineStar at Caterpillar in Chennai

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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. Senior Engineering Manager, MineStar Your Work Shapes the World Whether it is groundbreaking products, best-in-class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do work that matters at Caterpillar. When you join Caterpillar, you join a global team of makers, innovators and doers who turn progress and innovation into outcomes for customers and communities. Job Summary Caterpillar is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to provide product and technical leadership for MineStar development. This role leads engineering teams responsible for developing, integrating, enhancing, maintaining and supporting mining technology solutions that deliver measurable value for customers. The Senior Engineering Manager operates across a broader product and organisational scope than an Engineering Manager while providing direct leadership to engineering managers and supervisors in the organization. The role translates MineStar product strategy into executable engineering priorities, develops leaders and technical talent, and ensures teams deliver safe, reliable, supportable and competitive solutions. This leader will partner closely with product management, commercial and product support organisations, process owners, suppliers, dealers and mining customers. Success requires strong engineering judgement, disciplined program execution, customer focus, global collaboration and the ability to influence complex decisions through technical and business expertise. What You Will Do Lead a portfolio of MineStar product development, integration, enhancement, maintenance work, aligning engineering outcomes with product strategy and business priorities. Translate strategic direction into department objectives, roadmaps, resource plans, budgets and measurable delivery commitments across multiple teams or technical workstreams. Provide leadership and performance management for engineering managers, technical leaders and product development staff. Build succession strength and a high-performing leadership pipeline. Coordinate technical feasibility assessment, architecture and design optimisation, validation planning, cost and schedule management, risk assessment, mitigation and ongoing production support. Own or influence engineering investment decisions and manage the research and development budget for the assigned MineStar portfolio, balancing new capability, modernisation, quality, reliability and customer support. Establish governance and operating rhythms that provide stakeholders with clear visibility into scope, decisions, dependencies, risks, financial performance and delivery status. Guide the resolution of complex, cross-component and field issues by bringing together internal experts, suppliers, dealers and customer teams. Ensure that lessons learned improve future product and process decisions. Champion systems and software engineering discipline, technical excellence, cybersecurity, safety, quality, reliability, scalability and lifecycle support across MineStar solutions. Monitor customer needs, market dynamics, competitor movement and technology developments. Recommend product, capability and engineering responses that strengthen MineStar customer value and competitive position. Build strong partnerships across Caterpillar business units and functions and with external suppliers. Reconcile competing priorities and create shared accountability for outcomes. Represent MineStar with customers, dealers, suppliers and senior lea