Cummins Inc.

Technical Project Leader

Cummins Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Columbus • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $135,491 - $164,400 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead the overall technical coordination of complex mechanical and automotive systems product development activities
  • Be accountable for the project management of technical risk and quality of the product up to and including early production
  • Integrate the requirements of interdisciplinary and cross-functional stakeholders of product development
  • Make key decisions that impact cost and delivery without sacrifice to the quality expectations of the Value Package Profile (VPP)
  • Obtain input and negotiate with program leadership, product engineers and technology teams to deliver robust prototype and production designs
  • Develop technical risk mitigation plans and coordinate deliverables of new or current product change activity
  • Work extensively in engineering processes of Product Preceding Technology (PPT), Value Package Introduction (VPI), and Current Product Support (CPS)
  • Utilize tools including Product Development Six Sigma (PDSS), iDFMEA, Voice of the Customer and Voice of Other Stakeholders (VOC/VOX), and project risk 9-box to support high quality decision making
  • Establish and maintain the balance triangle of Scope, Schedule and Resources for projects
  • Oversee product development execution, monitoring, and control activities for complex products
  • Perform product function modeling, simulation, and analysis using predictive tools and methods
  • Take mitigating actions when project risks exceed expectations and lead full product life cycle process
  • Translate stakeholder needs into verifiable system requirements and establish acceptance criteria for system designs
  • Integrate market and key customer needs into a comprehensive development plan
  • Solve complex product problems using the 7-Step Product Problem Solving Process to implement robust solutions and prevent recurrence of issues
  • Coordinate development of design verification and system validation plans to identify failure modes while managing risks.

Requirements

  • Start Date of Posting: 10/09/2025
  • End Date of Posting: 10/24/2025
  • Position Type: Hybrid
  • Location: Columbus, IN and various unanticipated worksites throughout the U.S.
  • Master’s degree in Mechanical or Automotive Engineering, or related field and 3 years of experience as a Technical Project or Product Engineer, or related position
  • Alternatively, a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Automotive Engineering, or related field and 5 years of experience as a Technical Project or Product Engineer, or related position
  • Experience to include: Deliver robust prototype and production designs and technical risk mitigation plans; Product Preceding Technology (PPT), Value Package Introduction (VPI), and Current Product Support (CPS); Product Development Six Sigma (PDSS), iDFMEA, Voice of the Customer and Voice of Other Stakeholders (VOC/VOX); Scope, Schedule, Resource and Project Management; Product development execution, monitoring, and control; Product function modeling, simulation and analysis; System Requirements Engineering; Product platform development; 7-Step Product Problem Solving Process to determine the assignable cause and identify the systemic root causes; Develop design verification and system validation plans.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Mechanical EngineeringAutomotive EngineeringTechnical Project ManagementProduct DevelopmentRisk MitigationProduct Function ModelingSimulationSystem Requirements EngineeringDesign VerificationSystem Validation
Soft skills
LeadershipNegotiationDecision MakingProblem SolvingStakeholder ManagementCommunicationCollaborationProject MonitoringQuality AssuranceResource Management