Project Engineer

Project Engineer

Description

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We are looking for a talented Project Engineer to join our team specializing in Engineering for the Power Systems Business Segment in Shoreview, MN.

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

• This product-focused position performs established technical tasks at the sub-system and/or component level for current and future products within a given business unit or corporate area. This involves work across many steps in the product life cycle. Because of the product-centered nature of this position, they are very often a central point of coordination and decision-making between product line engineers, customer teams, systems engineers, purchasing, suppliers, and manufacturing.
• Investigate product problems, understand causal mechanisms, recommend appropriate action, own problem resolution, and document results with guidance from more experienced team members.
• The main focus will include working in business processes of Product Preceding Technology (PPT), Value Package Introduction (VPI), or Current Product Support (CPS) and executing technical processes such as Engineering Standard Work (ESW), iDFMEA, Failure Incident Review Group (FIRG) while using tools such as 7-step problem solving, design review checklist and other specialized tools required to support the processes and enable high-quality decision making.
• Obtains input from stakeholders such as technical managers, project leaders, other product and manufacturing engineers, and supplier partners to deliver information and recommendations that lead to quality product decisions.
• Applies academic knowledge and existing experience to take action and make decisions that progress projects forward without sacrificing project quality expectations. Examples of these decisions include day-to-day project details, analysis or test work instruction details, and coordination across discipline areas that are necessary to make quality progress.
• Owns problem resolution for moderately complex components, products, systems, subsystems, or services with a greater degree of technical complexity and ambiguity over the entry-level engineer level and with greater accountability to the project team.
• Provides independent execution of established work processes and systems, while still developing technology or product knowledge; engages with the improvement of systems and processes.
• Involves minimal direct management of people, but could involve the coordination and direction of work amongst technicians and/or temporary student employees.
• Contributes effectively toward team goals, exhibits influence within a work group, and continues to develop proficiency in the competency areas critical to success in the role.

Qualifications

Skills

• Cross-Functional Design Integration - Translates the value package requirements that include the voices of many stakeholders into virtual designs, and communicates the capability of the design through an approved cross-functional design review.
• 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.
• Product Failure Mode Avoidance - Mitigates potential product failure modes, by identifying interfaces, functions, functional requirements, interactions, control factors, noise factors, and prioritized potential failure modes and potential failure causes for the system of interest to effectively and efficiently improve the reliability of Cummins' products.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Self-development - Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
• Product Interface Management and Integration - Identifies and analyzes the interfaces and interactions across system boundaries by specifying the requirements and limits to ensure that the product meets requirements; controls the interactions across the system element boundaries by making sure that they remain within specified limits; integrates system elements by creating an integration plan, including identification of method and timing for each activity to make it easier to find, isolate, diagnose, and correct.
• 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 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.

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 entry-level engineering equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline area is required. Knowledge of MS Office tools is preferred.
• Switchgear - Requires a very basic understanding of typical low-voltage and medium-voltage switchgear designs.
• Generator Sets - Requires a very basic understanding of the typical features of medium-sized (19kW to 4MW) diesel and gas generator sets. The position requires a fundamental understanding of basic generator set controls.
• Automatic Transfer Switches - Requires a fundamental understanding of the typical features of an automatic transfer switch and the methods used to externally control their operation.
• Power System Architecture - Requires a very basic understanding of the typical power system components that are frequently found at the incoming distribution level of industrial and commercial facilities.
• Plans and Specifications - Requires a fundamental understanding of how to read and review project plans and specifications.
• System Control Components - Should have some basic experience with system control components found in paralleling applications. The position requires a basic capability to understand Allen Bradley and Schneider PLC code.
• Communication Networks - Requires a fundamental understanding of the hardware and protocols of common industrial communication networks such as Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP/IP, and BacNet. Should have some understanding of how to configure managed Ethernet switches using vendor-recommended settings or completing the settings with some supervision and the fundamentals of Ethernet networks.
• Project Drawings - Requires a basic understanding of different types of typical project drawings: Elevation, Plan-view, One-line, Three-line, Schematic, Interconnect, and Riser. The position will require the use of AutoCAD Electrical to produce simple drawings or update existing drawings. Previous CAD experience is preferred but not required.
• Operating Sequences - Requires a basic understanding of typical power system sequences and be able to read and review a sequence of operations and understand how the major components of a system are expected to operate. Based upon written sequences, one must be able to explain how the system should operate and be able to anticipate common first-level failures and their impacts on the power system.
• Protective Relays - Requires a very basic understanding of power system protective relaying principles and hardware.
• Safety - Must be willing to follow Cummins safety policies and procedures and also willing to follow site-specific requirements as communicated by site facility personnel and adhere to the more stringent of the two.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base Salary range commensurate with experience, range: $76,000 - $114,000. Please note that the salary range provided is a good-faith estimate of the applicable range. The final salary offer will be determined after considering relevant factors, including a candidate's qualifications and experience, where appropriate.
• Additional benefits vary between locations and include options such as our 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Cash Balance Pension Plan, Medical/Dental/Life Insurance, Health Savings Account, Domestic Partners Coverage, and a full complement of personal and professional benefits.

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. 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

Primary Location United States-Minnesota-Minneapolis-US, MN, Shoreview, CPG Headquarters Victoria St

Job Type Experienced - Exempt / Office

Recruitment Job Type Exempt - Experienced

Job Posting Feb 14, 2024, 5:00:00 AM

Unposting Date Mar 15, 2024, 3:59:00 AM

Organization Power Systems Business

Role Category Hybrid - Potential for Partial Remote

Relocation Package Ineligible

Req ID: 240000TX