Product Engineering Specialist

Cummins•Troy, MI

54d•$85,600 - $128,400•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a talentedâ¯Product Engineering Specialist to join our team specializing inâ¯Engineeringâ¯for our Cumminsâ¯locationâ¯Troy, MI. In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways: + Driving Product Development Excellence : You will lead the planning, execution, and cross-functional coordination of product development activities, ensuring alignment with technical profiles and stakeholder expectations while proactively managing risks. + Enhancing Product Reliability : By applying failure mode avoidance techniques, you will identify and mitigate potential failure causes, improving the robustness and dependability of Cummins' products across diverse operating conditions. + Influencing Design Through Simulation : Your use of modeling and simulation tools will guide design decisions by predicting product performance at system, sub-system, and component levels, ensuring functional integrity and compliance with requirements. + Ensuring Seamless System Integration : You will manage product interfaces and interactions across system boundaries, developing integration plans that streamline diagnostics and corrections while maintaining performance within specified limits. + Resolving Complex Product Issues : You will apply structured problem-solving methodologies to identify root causes, implement data-driven solutions, and prevent recurrence, safeguarding customer satisfaction and product integrity. + Validating Product Capability : Through rigorous verification and validation planning, you will assess product risks, negotiate requirements, and evaluate test results to confirm that product solutions meet or exceed expectations. + Translating Stakeholder Needs into Requirements : You will convert stakeholder inputs into clear, verifiable system requirements, track their lifecycle, and assess the impact of changes, ensuring design alignment and project control. + Documenting and Sharing Technical Knowledge : Your ability to capture and communicate technical insights will promote knowledge transfer, enhance team productivity, and support informed decision-making across the organization.

Requirements

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.
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.
Perform engineering analysis necessary for the production design, application and testing of axle/suspension, components, and systems. This will include the use of CAE tools such as CREO, CREO SIMULATE, ANSYS, etc.
Manage all aspects of engineering products according to customer requirements with focus on coordinating project timing, costs, test plans and prototype builds.
Create preliminary concepts of component/systems and work with designers to release detailed drawing packages.
Identify, verify and implement solutions to warranty or quality problems that affect product performance.
Excellent understanding of static analysis, fatigue analysis and familiar with fundamentals of dynamic and kinematic studies
Knowledge and understanding of vehicle dynamics is preferred.
BSME (MSME preferred) with minimum of 4 years of full time direct, practical experience to include:
Experience with Off-highway & specialty vehicle products and systems
Experience with planetary axle housing & wheel-ends
Design experience with structural components (forgings, castings, weldments)
Creation and maintenance of DFMEA and DVP&R tools.
Experienced using 3D part & assembly modeling software (CREO)
Knowledge of product development stage gate product development processes (e.g. GP3 or Advanced Product Quality
Planning (APQP) including involvement in the launch of a new product.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge and understanding of vehicle dynamics
Experience with geared systems
Experience with cost reduction activities and processes (VA/VE)
DFM/DFA (Design for Manufacturing / Design for Assembly)
DFSS (Design for Six Sigma)

Responsibilities

Stakeholder Collaboration and Influence : You must proactively engage with technical managers, project leaders, engineers, and supplier partners to gather input and deliver actionable recommendations that drive quality product decisions.
Decision-Making Agility : Applying your academic foundation and practical experience, you will need to make timely, informed decisions on project execution, test planning, and cross-disciplinary coordination without compromising quality.
Mastery of Engineering Processes and Tools : Success requires fluency in processes such as Engineering Standard Work (ESW), iDFMEA, and FIRG, along with tools like 7-step problem solving and design review checklists to ensure robust and repeatable outcomes.
Independent Project Leadership : You will be expected to lead smaller-scale projects or own complex components with full accountability, navigating ambiguity and delivering results with minimal oversight.
Process Improvement and Systems Thinking : You should actively contribute to the development and refinement of work processes across your discipline, enhancing efficiency and consistency at the business unit level.
Mentorship and Team Coordination : Coordinating technicians and mentoring junior engineers-either directly or through influence, will be essential to building team capability and ensuring knowledge transfer.
Technical Depth and Specialization : Operating as a recognized expert within your team, you must continue to deepen your technical proficiency and provide guidance that shapes the direction of your projects.
Competency Focus Areas : To excel, prioritize building strength in the following competencies identified by the Hiring Manager: Communicates Effectively, Drives Results, Decision Quality, Manages Complexity, and Builds Networks. These will amplify your impact across technical and organizational dimensions.

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