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Cummins Inc. Project Engineer in Ottawa , Ontario Description
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We are looking for a talented Project Engineer to join our team.
This dual customer/product focused position serves as the technical liaison between OEMs and represents our customers during new product development programs. Applying Cummins’ products to customer vehicles requires the development of technical specifications, implementing new design configurations, and delivering high performance, low-cost equipment and system solutions integrated with customers’ products in a variety of applications. Integrating high quality and optimized customer solutions requires the interaction with sales and marketing teams.
Investigates integration and installation problems, understands causal mechanisms, recommends appropriate action, owns problem resolution and documents results with guidance from more experienced team members.
Applies and supports the improvement of processes such as Installation Quality Assurance, OEM integration and product selection and tools such as Advisor, Cummins OnLine Specifications (COLS) and
Global Customer Engineering (GCE) required to support the processes and enable high quality decision making.
Obtains input and negotiates with Subject Matter Experts and Value Package Introduction (VPI) Teams and delivers product data and installation requirements to Application Engineers and OEMs.
Makes decisions in the areas of product selection, design, and integration that impact OEM machine performance, optimization and quality.
Develops strong working relationships with customer technical counterparts to serve as their primary liaison to deliver product technical information, manage product specifications, communicate product change information, conduct installation issue resolutions and facilitate customer requests
Assures installation quality by validating prototype machine performance and ensuring installations meet Cummins requirements
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.
Involves minimal direct management of people, but could involve the coordination and direction of work amongst technicians and/or temporary student employees.
applies Cummins' installation requirements using our standard tools, processes and identified best practices to ensure optimization of performance, reliability, cost and quality; analyzes technical issues using proven problem-solving and troubleshooting techniques for rapid resolution.
Machine Operation and Support - Evaluates the operation of the system by the user through monitoring system performance, addressing system failures or performance concerns, reacting to evolving user needs, and technology changes; Product Application Support - Ensures new product information is available by developing and managing accurate and complete technical content in a timely manner to support our customers and the business; provides new options through management of technical systems to support sales to all of our markets; defines installation requirements and develops innovative tools with in-depth, cross-system knowledge and industry experience for successful design and integration.
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.
Product Installation Quality - Identifies and applies ways to improve machine integration to minimize rework and deliver the best product; applies standard Cummins processes based on the experience and knowledge of product installation experts; ensures that products are installed correctly and meet requirements through an installation review process.
implements robust, data-based solutions; ensures Cummins' products aren't misapplied through using Cummins' technical information systems, local and application requirements.
Technical Customer Management - Represents Cummins to our customers by being the interface for all technical aspects; provides engineering data, documentation and training to customers to support the design and integration of equipment; Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
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.
Prior entry level engineering equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline area is required. Knowledge of MS Office tools is preferred
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. Position requires a basic capability to understand Allen Bradley and Schneider PLC code.
Communication Networks – Requires 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: Position will require the use of AutoCAD Electrical to produce simple drawings or update existing drawings. Previous CAD experience preferred but not required.
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.
Additional benefits vary between locations and include options such as our Retirement Savings 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 right to work using E-Verify.
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Primary Location Canada-Ontario-Ottawa-Canada, ON, Ottawa, Cummins Eastern Canada
Job Type Experienced - Exempt / Office
Role Category Hybrid - Potential for Partial Remote
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