Role & responsibilities

- Lead the 4000/5000 engineering organization through people leaders, with accountability for a total team of more than 50 employees. Establish clear priorities and accountability while building leadership capability, technical depth, succession and a culture of continuous improvement.
- Provide overall technical leadership for current product, new product introduction, product upgrades, validation and lifecycle engineering, ensuring engineering deliverables support platform business and customer objectives.
- Own engineering execution against critical platform requirements, including performance, reliability, durability, quality, cost, manufacturability, serviceability and regulatory compliance.
- Drive resolution of complex product, manufacturing and field-quality issues through structured root-cause analysis, robust containment and sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
- Establish and maintain effective engineering processes for the design, development, validation, release and lifecycle management of engines, components and systems.
- Lead technical assessment and validation of product changes, supplier changes, manufacturing-process changes and cost-reduction initiatives, ensuring risks are understood and appropriately mitigated before implementation.
- Partner with Product Management to translate customer, market and business requirements into clear engineering priorities and product-development plans.
- Work closely with Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain and Purchasing to improve product quality, manufacturing capability, supplier robustness, cost competitiveness and continuity of supply.
- Provide engineering leadership for platform capacity and sourcing initiatives, ensuring increased production capacity and alternative sourcing solutions maintain required technical and quality standards.
- Establish appropriate technical governance for significant engineering decisions; communicate risks, trade-offs and recommendations clearly to business leadership.
- Champion innovation and application of new technologies that strengthen platform competitiveness, reliability, sustainability and long-term viability.




- Represent the engineering organization with senior leadership, customers, suppliers and global engineering teams on significant technical and product matters.
- Monitor engineering performance across quality, validation, issue resolution, cost, delivery and technical risk, and drive continuous improvement.

Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, Materials Science or related technical discipline.
- Advanced experience leading engineering teams, complex technical programs and cross-functional product or process decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead across the product lifecycle, including development, validation, production and field issue resolution.
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues in clear business and customer terms and influence senior stakeholders.
- Experience working effectively across global, cross-functional and culturally diverse teams.

Core leadership accountabilities

Current product

Protect product quality, reliability and customer outcomes through disciplined issue resolution.

Future product

Lead development, upgrades and validation aligned to platform strategy and market needs.

Industrial execution

Ensure manufacturing, supplier, sourcing and capacity changes are technically ready and robust.

Platform competitiveness

Advance cost, technology, sustainability and customer value without compromising engineering integrity.

Engineering organization

Build capability, succession, governance and a culture of technical excellence.

Success profile

Planning: Tactical and Strategic

Advanced | Develops the engineering strategy and roadmap; translates platform priorities into resource and execution plans; anticipates technology, regulatory,



customer and manufacturing requirements; balances immediate priorities with long-term platform needs.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

Advanced | Evaluates alternatives using engineering evidence, validation results, field information and business risk. Distinguishes immediate containment from permanent solutions and facilitates decisions where functions have competing priorities.

Technical Excellence

Advanced | Creates an environment of technical rigor and innovation. Ensures robust engineering practices across design, validation, production and field support, and leads resolution of highly complex engine, component, system and manufacturing challenges.

Communicating for Impact

Extensive Experience | Translates complex technical matters into explicit customer and business implications. Explains risk, alternatives and recommendations, integrates disparate inputs and communicates transparently with senior leaders and global stakeholders.

Customer and Market Focus

Extensive Experience | Ensures engineering priorities reflect customer requirements for reliability, durability, performance, operating cost and product support. Uses field and market insight to identify product improvements and new sources of value.

Managing People

Extensive Experience | Leads through people leaders to build an accountable, capable and engaged engineering organization of more than 50 employees. Sets clear goals, strengthens leadership capability, coaches and mentors leaders, develops succession depth and addresses capability or performance gaps appropriately.

Collaborating Globally

Advanced | Builds networks across Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Purchasing and commercial teams. Removes barriers, aligns priorities and promotes shared ownership of platform outcomes.

Influencing Through Expertise

Advanced | Uses technical expertise, business understanding and evidence to influence high-impact decisions involving product changes, validation, quality, sourcing and investment. Constructively challenges assumptions and promotes data-led decisions.

📌 Senior Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Caterpillar
📍 Bengaluru