Product Systems Design - Co-Op Positions

Cummins Talent Acquisition • Columbus, IN

108d

About The Position

This product focused position applies knowledge of engineering principles and design practices to create optimized design concepts and mechanical design specifications considering application, cost, weight, performance, reliability, durability, manufacturing, assembly, and serviceability. This role effectively communicates the capability of a design concept to meet cross-functional requirements including assessment of alternative and competitive design concepts and works effectively across cross-functional disciplines to develop corporate and customer requirements including those required to resolve product issues.

Requirements

• Knowledge of engineering principles and design practices.
• Experience in material and material processing validation, quality auditing, and design validation.
• Familiarity with tools and techniques for material characterization and testing.
• Ability to communicate effectively across cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in problem resolution for moderately complex components, products, systems, subsystems, or services.
• Proficiency in statistical data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Investigates material and material processing problems, understands causal mechanisms, recommends appropriate action, actively contributes to problem resolution and documents results with guidance from more experienced team members.
• Applies and supports the improvement of processes such as material and material processing validation, quality auditing, design validation and 7-step problem solving.
• Utilizes tools and techniques for material characterization, material testing, non-destructive testing, mechanical and physical properties measurement, simulation and statistical data analysis to enable higher quality decision making.
• Supports more experienced team members to obtain input and negotiate with Quality, Supply Chain, and Engineering functions and delivers testing/analysis results and consultancy to these functions to enable internal and external customer success.
• Supports more experienced team members that make decisions in the areas of material and material processing selection and optimization, qualification, and inspection that impact product quality, reliability, durability, and capability.
• Applies and improves material specifications/standards in alignment with requirements, capability, and quality needs.
• Engages with the improvement of systems and processes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees