Job Description

DESCRIPTION/RESPONSIBILITIES:
This entry level technical management position develops and delivers technical talent in a research, technology or product development environment. He/She manages the resources that maximize workgroup productivity in support of tactical business needs and implements short/near term business strategies with a focus on tactical execution. The position also includes maintaining strong working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders both within the technical function and across the broader business.
Primary responsibility is the management and development most often of early career engineers within a technical center, business unit or corporate area, and making these people available to perform duties necessary to satisfy the businesses technical needs.

Provides problem resolution leadership for complex systems with a low degree of ambiguity and most often site or regional impact; helps get teams in place.
Supports the development and improvement of work processes and systems most often within the Technical function on a site or regional basis.
Coaches and mentors employees to provide guidance and direction on resolving problems, technical know-how, removing barriers to progress and career path planning. Assesses performance and provides feedback to direct reports.

Most often manages and applies existing work processes involving activities such as resource allocation and management, organizational and business change, customer/stakeholder management and knowledge management; all used for the purposes of enabling high quality decision making that meets business expectations.
Decisions made in this role may include resource deployment cost and timing allocations, project prioritization, personnel staffing, and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) management, the result of which can impact project cost and delivery most often within a site or region.
Communicates and executes to established employee performance standards; works collaboratively with their employees to set goals and address areas of deficiency.

• 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 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.
• 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.
• Project Management – Establishes and maintains the balance of scope, schedule and resources for a temporary effort (a “project”).
• 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 Function Processes and Tools – Executes, improves, trains, coaches and/or manages the Technical processes and tools including standards and best practices that enables knowledge to be re-used and functional deliverables to be met in a quality and productive manner.
• Decision quality – Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Directs work – Providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done.
• 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.
• Develops talent – Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Communicates effectively – Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Education, Licenses, Certifications
College, university, or equivalent Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other relevant technical disciplines is required.
This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience
• Prior Engineering (CC01) or Specialist Engineering (CC02) equivalent work experience in a product, technology or engineering service role with demonstrated success leading projects and influencing outcomes through either direct or indirect reporting relationships. Must have had managerial/coaching experience of at least one direct report or several indirect reports in a prior technical path role. Must have a demonstrated track record of technical problem solving, quality decision making, and direct or indirect coaching of lesser experienced engineers in a project team environment.
• Problem Solving – Solves problems using a systematic analysis process by leveraging industry standard methodologies to create problem traceability and protect the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements robust, data-based solutions; identifies the systemic root causes and recommended actions to prevent problem reoccurrence.
• Health and Safety Fundamentals – Champions and models proactive health and safety behaviors by identifying, reporting and participating in actions to improve health and safety in order to build an interdependent culture and contribute to an injury-free workplace.
• Action oriented – Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Collaborates – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Communicates effectively – Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Equipment/Capital Procurement – Selects manufacturing equipment which meets the Cummins manufacturing specifications and meets the project or program needs.
• Ergonomic Fundamentals – Understands ergonomic concepts by applying Cummins ergonomic standards, guidelines, controls and tools to reduce ergonomic risk to employees while at work.
• Integrates the pillars of engineering techniques by applying a comprehensive and quantitative analysis to available data to be used as decision factors for the development or improvement of manufacturing processes to contribute to the most efficient process.
• Manufacturing Knowledge – Demonstrates the knowledge of manufacturing by correctly implementing changes in current processes, equipment, and applications to meet the function’s needs and contribute towards continuous improvement.
• Optimizes work processes – Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.

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Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time.

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