Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
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 Description
Caterpillar’s Autonomous Mining Technologies is seeking an experienced Autonomy Project Team Lead to drive disciplined project execution and delivery of high-quality autonomy solutions. This role will streamline team workflows, strengthen DevOps and quality practices, coordinate validation, and build an effective, team-oriented team.
- Own work planning, backlog execution, dependency management, and delivery tracking through Azure DevOps.
- Lead the autonomy project team, remove roadblocks, and maintain alignment to scope,



schedule, quality, and business priorities.
- Work with global teams, streamline workflows, governance, reviews, metrics, and reporting to improve predictability and execution efficiency.
- Coordinate L4/L6 validation planning, readiness, resources, issue closure, and objective evidence across stakeholders.
- Drive DevOps, CI/CD, traceability, defect prevention, and continuous improvement practices.
- Identify project risks and process gaps; establish mitigation, contingency, and escalation plans.
- Collaborate with architects, software, systems, test, product, and operations teams to enable integrated delivery.
- Support troubleshooting of automation and process-control issues by identifying critical parameters, variables, and hazards.
- Ensure automation solutions are designed, commissioned, maintained, and validated for reliable industrial operation.
- Provide clear status communication to st

📌 Autonomy Project Team Lead (Chennai)
🏢 Caterpillar
📍 Chennai