Engineering Trainee

Role Overview

Engineering Trainee at Cummins Arabia. This product-focused position performs established technical tasks at the sub-system and component level for current and future products within a given business unit or corporate area, working across many steps in the product life cycle.

Role Purpose

To serve as a central point of coordination and decision-making between product line engineers, customer teams, systems engineers, purchasing, suppliers and manufacturing while developing technical expertise in product engineering processes and problem-solving methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

Product Problem Investigation and Resolution

• Investigate product problems and understand causal mechanisms with guidance from more experienced team members.
• Recommend appropriate action and own problem resolution.
• Document results and findings.
• Own problem resolution for moderately complex components, products, systems, subsystems or services with greater degree of technical complexity and ambiguity than entry-level engineer level and with greater accountability to the project team.

Business and Technical Process Execution

• Execute work in business processes of Product Preceding Technology (PPT), Value Package Introduction (VPI), or Current Product Support (CPS).
• Execute technical processes including Engineering Standard Work (ESW), iDFMEA, and Failure Incident Review Group (FIRG).
• Apply tools such as 7-step problem solving and design review checklist.
• Provide independent execution of established work processes and systems while developing technology and product knowledge.

Stakeholder Engagement and Decision-Making

• Obtain input from stakeholders such as technical managers, project leaders, other product and manufacturing engineers and supplier partners.
• Deliver information and recommendations that lead to quality product decisions.
• Apply academic knowledge and existing experience to make decisions that progress projects forward without sacrificing project quality expectations.
• Make day-to-day project decisions including analysis, test work instruction details, and coordination across discipline areas necessary for quality progress.

Process Improvement and Team Contribution

• Engage with the improvement of systems and processes.
• Contribute effectively toward team goals and exhibit influence within a work group.
• Coordinate and direct work amongst technicians and/or temporary student employees with minimal direct people management.
• Continue to develop proficiency in competency areas critical to success in the role.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or other relevant technical discipline required.
• Prior entry-level engineering equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline area required.
• Knowledge of MS Office tools preferred.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Skills & Competencies

Technical Competencies

• Product Problem Solving: Solve product problems using a process that protects the customer; determine assignable cause; implement robust, data-based solutions; identify systemic root causes and recommended actions to prevent problem reoccurrence.
• Product Verification and Validation Management: Coordinate development of design verification and system validation plans; identify failure modes while managing risk and relative priority; evaluate analytical and experimental test results following engineering principles; verify that products meet internal technical requirements and validate that design solutions meet customer needs; produce recommendations with technical documentation to support product decisions.
• Product Failure Mode Avoidance: Mitigate potential product failure modes by identifying interfaces, functions, functional requirements, interactions, control factors, noise factors, and prioritized potential failure modes and causes for the system of interest to improve reliability of Cummins products.
• Product Development Execution, Monitoring and Control: Plan, schedule, coordinate and execute activities involved in developing a product to aligned hierarchy of requirements and technical profiles; monitor and communicate across functional boundaries to meet project resource and quality expectations; ensure product capability meets or exceeds expectations; take mitigating actions when project risks are higher than expected; understand the full product life cycle process and stakeholders.
• Technical Documentation: Document information based on knowledge gained as part of technical function activities; communicate to stakeholders with the goal of enabling improved technical productivity and effective knowledge transfer.
• System Capability Engineering: Identify system capability and risks through analysis or experimental testing of the system, sub-system, or super system in the context of its environment; negotiate and verify requirements against capability to guide project scope and system development; assess legacy system versus proposed new system solution capabilities; make decisions on how best to achieve system capability with consideration of stakeholder trade-offs.
• Cross-Functional Design Integration: Translate value package requirements that include voices of many stakeholders into virtual designs; communicate the capability of the design through approved cross-functional design review.

Behavioral Competencies

• Decision Quality: Make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieve results even under tough circumstances.
• Collaborates: Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Communicates Effectively: Develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Self-Development: Actively seek new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.