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DESCRIPTION

At Cummins, we recognize the decision to come back into your desired career after an extended career break can be intimidating. We value your diverse background, education, and experience and believe that we can help with Powering Your Potential as you make the return.

RePower, our return-to-work program, is designed specifically for candidates like you: people who have over five years of professional work experience and an employment gap of at least two years for a variety of reasons and are now ready to return to the workforce. The program is designed to support you as you re-engage those skills through fulfilling work assignments. Mentoring, training, development, and helping you to achieve your professional goals is the leading factor in each cohort.

The role is a six-month paid and benefitted opportunity which is aimed at providing you with the necessary extensive internal resources to support your return to paid work. During your time with us, you will be provided with an opportunity to use your specialist skills, expertise, interests, and abilities on meaningful projects. Following the six months, successful participants may be eligible for full time employment opportunities. We are excited to get to know you and learn more about what powers you.

For Program Overview visit: https://seo.nlx.org/cummins/img2/2025-158_RePower%20Program%20Flyers_US_DIGITAL.pdf #RPENG #RPIT #RPSC

We are looking for a talented On- Board Diagnostic Planning Project Manager to join our team specializing in Engineering for our Corporate organization in Columbus, IN .

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

• Drive Root Cause Analysis and Resolution You'll investigate complex electronic application and systems issues, identify root causes, and recommend effective solutions—directly improving product reliability and customer satisfaction.

• Enhance Development Processes By applying and refining tools and processes like system modeling, simulation, and DVP&R, you'll help streamline development cycles and elevate the quality of electronic systems.

• Collaborate Across Functions Your ability to gather input from diverse stakeholders—customers, engineers, suppliers—will ensure that decisions are well-informed and aligned with broader product goals.

• Influence Product Quality and Performance Your decisions on system design, calibration, and testing will directly impact the performance and robustness of electronic subsystems, contributing to superior end products.

• Mentor and Review Work of Peers By reviewing the work of less-experienced developers and testers, you'll foster a culture of excellence and ensure high standards in design and implementation.

• Lead Projects and Complex Components You’ll independently lead smaller projects or own complex components, demonstrating initiative and accountability while navigating ambiguity with confidence.

• Advance Technical Direction Your guidance will shape the technical direction of project teams, helping to align efforts with strategic goals and encouraging innovation.

• Champion Process Improvement By leading improvements in work processes and systems, you’ll boost efficiency and effectiveness across your functional area, leaving a lasting impact on team performance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Design and Application of Mechatronics Systems - Specifies electronic hardware and interconnections that measure and control systems; applies electronic hardware and interconnections in Cummins' products.

• Machine Integration and Optimization - Combines various parts or sub-systems into a whole to achieve the output most desired by the customer; applies Cummins' installation requirements using our standard tools, processes and identified best practices to ensure optimization of performance, reliability, cost and quality; analyzes technical issues using proven problem-solving and troubleshooting techniques for rapid resolution.

• 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 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.

• Design and Application of Open/Closed Loop Controls - Specifies software features that interact with mechanical, hydraulic, chemical and electronic systems to deliver desired system states; specifies control system architectures which include appropriate measurements, correct actuation, and algorithms for Cummins' products; configures and/or understands open/closed loop feedback controls features and the system interactions between hardware and software in Cummins' products.

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

QUALIFICATIONS

Additional Responsibilities :

We are looking for a Technical project manager that can support the Technical Compliance & Certification (TC&C) On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) Center Of Excellence (COE) team with defining and creating a centralized repository for various technical process and documents. Gain familiarity with the Regulatory Requirements landscape and review the upcoming regulations in the International regions to help the team have a key point summary of these regulations that impact their work. Collaborate and Establish a working connection with cross functional teams from various international regions like Brazil, China, India, UK and collect the ongoing and upcoming program information from each of the regions, scope of the support required from Global OBD COE based in the US vs Regional teams. Additionally, set up a process for the upkeep of this information.

During the time in this role, the candidate will be required to gain a few skills on the job like a few listed below.

Develop awareness of Regulatory Requirements

Develop awareness of the overall OBD processes and OBD COE roles and responsibilities in these processes

Gain user knowledge of requirements management (Windchill RV&S) tool

Skills Considered a Plus:

• Awareness of Powertrain industry products.

• Project Management capabilities to support the technical teams.

• Flexible work timing to be able to collaborate with Global teams (meaing the ability to accommodate early morning meetings in US time zone).

• Familiarity with On-Board Diagnostics and Powertrain Controls would be an added skill.

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or other engineering.

• Experience in related automotive or industrial applications is more important than the specific engineering degree.

Compensation and Benefits

• Compensation for this role is $8,900/month (subject to applicable withholdings), plus benefits such as health and wellness while in the program.

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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.

Job Engineering

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category Hybrid

Job Type Apprenticeship

Min Salary $85600

Max Salary $128400

ReqID 2415900

Relocation Package No

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 the right to work using E-Verify and 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. Visit http://EEOC.gov to know your rights on workplace discrimination.