Job Description

DESCRIPTION


• This product focused, developing leadership position performs established technical tasks at the product and cross-business integration 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 engineers, product line engineers, customer teams, 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.
• Uses systems knowledge and expertise to make decisions in the areas of technology integration, design, analysis and experimental test verification and validation for both new a current products that impact product form, functionality and overall project risk trade-offs.
• Creates, manages, improves and applies processes such ESW, iDFMEA, 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 problem resolution leadership for complex systems with a high degree of ambiguity and often global business impact.
• Leads the development and improvement of work processes and systems across function(s) within a global business unit or managing improvement across business units.
• Coordinates and directs work of technical project teams, up to and including direct management of small to mid-sized teams.
• Operates as the recognized multi-competency specialist or expert in a discipline or product area across a site or global business unit with responsibility for developing local talent (direct or indirect).
• Coaches and mentors other engineers, project managers and cross-functional team members.
• May also include academic or industry collaboration in a competency or discipline area.

RESPONSIBILITIES


Skills


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 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.


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.


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.


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.


Systems Thinking - Defines the system of interest by drawing the boundaries, identifying its context within its environment, its interfaces, and that it has a lifecycle to aid in planning the problem statement, scope and deliverables ; analyzes linkages and interactions between elements that comprise the system of interest by using appropriate methods, models and integration of outcomes to understand the system, predict its behavior and devise modifications to it in order to produce the desired effects.


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.


Cultivates innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.


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


Manages ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.


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


Optimizes work processes - Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.


QUALIFICATIONS


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


Demonstrated success having worked in a Technical Specialist/Specialist Engineering role on lower complexity product development activities, translating customer needs and negotiating into product development plans, technical profiles and/or product specifications with a proven track record of successful product decisions.


Specific Job Summary:


Applies highly specialized knowledge of engineering principles and practices to assigned areas and projects in the design, development, analysis and release of products and subsystems through the product life cycle. Creates design specifications considering application, cost, weight, performance, product life, manufacture, assembly and service. Verifies design using analysis and or functional testing, interprets results, drives decisions and assesses risk. Works with other engineering disciplines and cross-functional disciplines to resolve product issues. Evaluates customer needs and aligns requirements with identified customer expectations. May fill the role of an assistant chief engineer, product readiness leader or project engineering leader.


Position Specific Requirements


Skills:


Demonstrated technical knowledge of automotive/off highway/stationary electric machine and power electronics technology, including:


Current, prevalent machine and power electronics topologies (performance characteristics, including direct drive and geared machine integration, and machine inverter, DC/AC inverter and DC/DC converter technologies)


Design (key parameters of packaging, mechanical, electromagnetic, wiring and sensing) & Failure modes


Manufacturing, assembly & Supply base and market landscape


Applicable industry standards, practices and regulations


System Interfaces & Testing/validation methods


Collaborate with other mechanical, systems, electrical, digital control, manufacturing test, industrial design, and test engineers to meet design and program needs.


Experience - Significant experience integrating various energy generation and energy storage systems into automotive powertrains (passcar preferred)


• Handson experience with electric machines and power electronics testing methods and/or directing testing


Job Engineering


Organization Cummins Inc.


Role Category


Job Type Exempt - Experienced


ReqID 240003T5


Relocation Package Yes