Project Engineer

Location

Troy, MI | United States

Job description

Project Engineer

Description

Our culture believes in POWERING YOUR POTENTIAL . We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place and work with today’s most innovative thinkers to solve the world’s toughest problems.

We believe in flexibility for you to explore your passions while making an impact through meaningful work within our inclusive workforce. That’s what #LifeAtCummins is all about.

We are looking for a talented Project Engineer to join our team specializing in Engineering for our Components Business Segment in Rochester Hills, MI.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• This product focused position performs established technical tasks at the sub-system and/or component level for current and future products within a given business unit or corporate area.

• This involves work across many steps in the product life cycle. Because of the product centered nature of this position, they are very often a central point of coordination and decision making between product line engineers, customer teams, systems engineers, purchasing, suppliers and manufacturing.

• Obtains input from stakeholders such as technical managers, project leaders, other product and manufacturing engineers and supplier partners to deliver information and recommendations that lead to quality product decisions.

• Applies academic knowledge and existing experience to take action and make decisions that progress projects forward without sacrificing project quality expectations. Examples of these decisions include day to day project details, analysis or test work instruction details, coordination across discipline areas that are necessary to make quality progress.

• Applies and improves processes such as Engineering Standard Work (ESW), iDFMEA, Failure Incident Review Group (FIRG) and tools such as 7-step problem solving, design review checklist and other specialized tools required to support the processes and enable high quality decision making.

• Provides independent leadership of smaller business impact projects or ownership of complex components, products, systems or services with greater elements of ambiguity over the senior or lead engineer level and with full accountability to the project team.

• Delivers independent execution of established and emerging work processes and systems, while still developing technology or product knowledge.

• Leads the development and improvement of work processes and systems across a functional discipline area within a business unit site.

• Coordinates and directs work amongst technicians and temporary student employees, assists in the transfer of knowledge to lesser experienced engineers through either indirect (scope of influence) or direct management of a small, local group of engineers.

• Provides support and guidance to influence technical direction within a project team and continues to develop proficiency in the competency areas critical to success in the role.

• Operates as a recognized specialist in a discipline or product area within the immediate team.

Qualifications

Skills

• Product Development Execution, Monitoring and Control - Plans, schedules, coordinates and executes the activities involved in developing a product to a respectively aligned hierarchy of requirements and technical profiles; monitors and communicates across functional boundaries to meet project resource and quality expectations; ensures product capability meets or exceeds expectations and takes mitigating actions when project risks are higher than expected; understands the full product life cycle process and stakeholders.

• Product Failure Mode Avoidance - Mitigates potential product failure modes, by identifying interfaces, functions, functional requirements, interactions, control factors, noise factors, and prioritized potential failure modes and potential failure causes for the system of interest to effectively and efficiently improve the reliability of Cummins’ products.

• Product Problem Solving - Solves product problems using a process that protects the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements robust, data-based solutions; and identifies the systemic root causes and recommended actions to prevent problem reoccurrence.

• Product Verification and Validation Management - Develops product systems validation plans from a variety of inputs to identify failure modes, while managing product risk and relative priority; negotiates product requirements against capability to guide project scope; evaluates analytical, simulation and physical test results to verify product capability and validate requirements; assesses legacy versus proposed system solution capabilities and produces recommendations with technical documentation to support product decisions.

• Technical Documentation - Documents information based on knowledge gained as part of technical function activities; communicates to stakeholders with the goal of enabling improved technical productivity and effective knowledge transfer to others who were not originally part of the initial learning.

• Technical Documentation - Documents information based on knowledge gained as part of technical function activities; communicates to stakeholders with the goal of enabling improved technical productivity and effective knowledge transfer to others who were not originally part of the initial learning.

• Builds networks - Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.

• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

• Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.

• Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.

• Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

• Resourcefulness - Securing and deploying resources effectively and efficiently.

• Product Interface Management and Integration - Identifies and analyzes the interfaces and interactions across system boundaries by specifying the requirements and limits to ensure that the product meets requirements; controls the interactions across the system element boundaries by making sure that they remain within specified limits; integrates system elements by creating an integration plan, including identification of method and timing for each activity to make it easier to find, isolate, diagnose, and correct.

• System Requirements Engineering - Uses appropriate methods and tools to translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements to which designs are developed; establishes acceptance criteria for the system of interest through analysis, allocation and negotiation; tracks the status of requirements throughout the system lifecycle; assesses the impact of changes to system requirements on project scope, schedule, and resources; creates and maintains information linkages to related artifacts.

• Product Function Modeling, Simulation and Analysis - Impacts product design decisions through the utilization and/or interpretation of computational tools and methods that predict the capability of a product's function relative to its system, sub-system and/or component level requirements.

Education, Licenses, Certifications

• College, university, or equivalent Bachelor's degree in Engineering or appropriate STEM field is required.

• Post-graduate (Master's) degree relevant to this discipline area may be required for select roles.

• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience

• Prior Senior or Lead Engineer equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline area is required with a demonstrated track record of technical problem solving and quality decision making. Knowledge of MS Office tools is preferred.

Job Summary:

• This is a product focusedposition performs established technical tasks at the sub-system and/or component level for current and future products within a North America Brake Engineering group. This role has responsibility for work across all phases of the product life cycle. This is a product centered position, which is responsible for coordination and decision making between product line engineers, customer teams, systems engineers, purchasing, suppliers and manufacturing. This role will interface directly with customers, suppliers, test labs, production manufacturing facilities, and several internal engineering groups and business units.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop knowledge of drum brakes, slack adjusters, air disc brakes and hydraulic disc brakes

• Lead all aspects of engineering activities while collaborating with manufacturing to meet customer requirements with a focus on project timing, robust product design, strong test plans and prototype builds.

• Perform engineering analysis necessary for the product design, application and testing of components and systems. Calculations may include structural component stress and fatigue life, geometrical fit, and static and dynamic load calculations.

• Facilitate the cross functional communication to ensure delivery of information and timely decision making between product and manufacturing engineers, purchasing, quality, product line management as well as supplier partners.

• Utilize a data driven approach to take action and make decisions that progress projects forward ensure product quality and reliability, without sacrificing project quality expectations.

• Applies and improves engineering knowledge through creating and improving design guidelines, DFMEAs, design review checklist and other specialized tools required to support product performance, quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction.

• Lead and support problem solving activities through structured problem solving such as 8D, KT, DFSS, DMAIC and/or Shainin.

• Provides support and guidance to influence technical direction within a project team and continues to develop proficiency in the competency areas critical to success in the role.

• Operates as a recognized specialist in a discipline or product area within the immediate team.

Competencies:

• Detailed design experience of Commercial or Light Vehicle components and products.

• Good verbal and written communication skills in English and Spanish is a plus.

• Able to model and create drawing in PTC CREO is preferred.

• Conduct FEA studies in PTC Simulate and/or ANSYS is preferred.

• Apply geometric dimensioning and tolerancing to major components – GD&T.

• Experience with DRBFM, DFMEA and DVP&R tools

• Good communication skills; capable of conveying technical ideas and thoughts clearly into discussions and straight forward presentations.

• Basic level programming using Python, C, C++ and utilizing software tools such as Matlab/Simulink

• Project management skills are required.

• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals.

• Strong understanding of manufacturing methods. Casting, Forging, Machining, and Assembly methods.

• Problem Solving certified (DFSS, DMAIC and/or Shainin), with demonstrated problem solving ability through the use of six sigma and/or Shainin projects.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

• BS Engineering (BSME with MS preferred).

Experience:

• Minimum of 4 years of full time direct, practical experience

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range is $96,000.00-144,000.00 rate will commensurate with experience. Additional benefits vary between locations and include options such as our 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Cash Balance Pension Plan, Medical/Dental/Life Insurance, Health Savings Account, Domestic Partners Coverage and a full complement of personal and professional benefits.

Cummins and E-Verify

• At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Cummins validates right to work using E-Verify. Cummins will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

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Primary Location United States-Michigan-Rochester Hills-US, MI, Troy, 2135 West Maple Road

Job Type Experienced - Exempt / Office

Recruitment Job Type Exempt - Experienced

Job Posting Feb 26, 2024, 10:11:29 AM

Unposting Date Mar 12, 2024, 12:59:00 AM

Organization Cummins Meritor

Role Category Hybrid - Potential for Partial Remote

Relocation Package Ineligible

Req ID: 240000D5

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