Sr Engineering Manager, MineStar

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.

Planning: Tactical and Strategic

Develops integrated plans across multiple teams; converts product strategy into sequenced engineering priorities; allocates people and funding against the highest-value outcomes; and adjusts plans using data, risks and changing business conditions.

Technical Excellence

Creates an environment that rewards technical excellence; provides recognised leadership on complex systems and software challenges; engages the appropriate subject-matter experts; and ensures decisions reflect sound architecture, engineering evidence and lifecycle considerations.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

Frames ambiguous problems, evaluates alternatives with multiple stakeholders, distinguishes facts from assumptions, anticipates second-order effects and makes timely decisions during high-impact or customer-critical situations.

Product Design and Development

Leads cross-functional development from concept through production and support; strengthens development methods and governance; and balances customer value, speed, quality, cost, reliability and technical debt.

Customer and Market Focus

Maintains a direct understanding of mining customer needs and success criteria; responds proactively to market and competitive shifts; resolves difficult customer issues; and converts field insight into prioritised product and engineering action.

Influencing Through Expertise

Explains complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences; challenges decisions constructively with evidence; builds trust across organisational boundaries; and develops others as credible technical advisers.

Collaborating Globally

Builds networks across functions, regions, dealers, suppliers and customers; reconciles conflicting interests; uses collective expertise to solve complex problems; and creates shared ownership for business results.

People Leadership and Career Development

Develops managers and technical leaders, establishes business-driven development plans, identifies mission-critical capability gaps, supports targeted rotations and learning, and links talent decisions to long-term MineStar needs.

Program, Financial and Risk Management

Manages a portfolio of commitments, budgets, dependencies and risks; establishes transparent operating mechanisms; and intervenes early when delivery, quality, cost or customer outcomes are at risk.

Troubleshooting and Production Support

Directs the structured resolution of complex and non-recurring failures, coordinates internal and external experts, establishes mechanisms for problem tracking and organisational learning, and ensures corrective actions address root causes.