Connectivity System Manager at Caterpillar in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Connectivity System Manager Location: Wuxi, Jiangsu 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. Technology is a competitive differentiator. We collaborate with partners across the enterprise to advance technologies including autonomy and automation, which helps enhance site safety, productivity and efficiency across customer operations worldwide. Our focus isn’t just on what we build, but how we build it. We scale technology solutions across the business. We spearhead product development tools and processes. We collaborate with our partners to provide a seamless experience for our customers. We are obsessed with speed, simplicity and customer outcomes. Cat Technology also owns enterprise-wide initiatives in innovation, research and development, manufacturing automation and advanced materials, ensuring Caterpillar continues to lead the industry in technological excellence and engineering innovation. Job Summary: The Connectivity System Solution Division is seeking a leader to fill the Engineering Manager Leader position to provide leadership to people leaders. This role is responsible for leading the team in India and China. This position will provide people and technical leadership to project leads located in India or China. This position will manage our relationship with Resource Industries (RI), Construction Industries (CI) and Power and Energy (PE) product groups across the enterprise including working very closely with Intelligent Machine System (IMS) and including Cat Digital to meet customer solution needs.  This position will interact regularly with other product teams (flash, troubleshoot and local service), IMS, Digital Helios and product teams and key stakeholders to focus on developing system requirements, designing system, and aligning software requirement with system requirement to meet business partner’s needs. In addition, this position will work regularly with customer solutions teams (core and growth) and product groups to establish a single, trusted source for requirements documentation—including marketing, functional, system, software, and hardware requirements—to effectively meet business partner and customer needs by delivering high quality connectivity system and solutions. What You Will Do: Managing staff and activities with an emphasis on organizational goals achievement, professional development and continuous improvement. Monitoring and continuously improving product and process performance, quality and cost-effectiveness for all engineering activities and deliverables. Providing leadership to create and maintain processes used to design, develop and deliver connectivity systems, features, and services for programs and business partners. Managing engineering product and process or quality issues, from concept through end of life-cycle. Work with Cat Technology and Digital Tech business and process partners on business objectives for Connectivity System. Collaborate with broader global group and leader(s) to meet clients’ objectives for delivery of Connectivity Systems Collaborate with product groups, customer solutions, IMS, hardware, firmware, software, cloud and business stakeholders to turn requirements into system requirements Work with members of the CI and RI tech forum to prioritize features related to Tech Platform projects that will benefit Caterpillar customers Mentor and grow team and SMEs in China & India Manage the team’s projects, budget and travel What You Will Have: System Design & Strategy: Architecting end-to-end IoT solutions that meet the specific Connectivity requirements from Caterpillar customers. This involves understanding business objectives, analyzing technical requirements, and designing scalable and efficient architectures. Technical Expertise: Strong background in embedded systems, firmware development, cloud technologies (API, AWS/Azure), and networking protocols Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment. Communicating for Impact: Knowledge of the concepts, tools and techniques for effective listening and communicating; ability to apply these theories to receive, transmit and accurately interpret information and ideas to influence others in various situations. Collaborating Globally: Knowledge of effective collaboration techniques and ability to build networks with people from different countries and cultures, think and work with them to bring positive impact and flourishing business results. Top Candidates will also have Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field Proven system and architecture experience in automotive and related industry Proven experience in IoT solution design and deployment Embedded system experience is preferred Proven team leadership experience Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in order to persuade others on new technologies, or potential solutions Experience with the New Product Introduction (NPI), CPI and NTI process Demonstrated strong technical and analytical skills Additional Details: Domestic relocation assistance is not available for this position. This position may require up to 20% travel Employee benefit details Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance.  We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus. Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date). Final details Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers. For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media Posting Dates: June 11, 2026 - June 25, 2026 Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community.