Placement Student – R&T Project Management
Cummins Inc.
internship
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Peterborough • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Entry Level
About the role
- Support R&T project managers in the planning and delivery of collaborative R&D projects.
- Maintain and update key project management tools such as action trackers, risk registers, Gantt charts, and exploitation plans.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of PM processes, document templates, and data tracking systems.
- Participate in cross-functional meetings across R&T, engineering, business development, and program teams.
- Assist in the coordination of external collaborations with universities, research organizations, SMEs, and industrial partners.
- Support internal technology scouting to identify Cummins innovations and competencies aligned with UK and EU funding priorities.
- Support external funding intelligence, monitoring sources such as Innovate UK, Horizon Europe, Clean Hydrogen Partnership, and the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) for new opportunities.
Requirements
- Working towards a degree in Business/Engineering/Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders on a global basis, using project management skills to aid with this.
- Strong data analysis skills including the use of Microsoft packages.
- Experience using SharePoint and Teams for document management and collaboration.
- Ability to analyze and synthesize information from diverse sources (funding databases, web searches, partner profiles).
- Proactive and self-driven approach with good attention to detail.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
project managementdata analysisdocument management
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationattention to detailproactiveself-driven