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We are looking for a talented Product Engineering Specialist to join our team specializing in Engineering for our Cummins Inc. facility in Troy, MI. 

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

• Drive high-quality product decisions by synthesizing input from technical managers, project leaders, manufacturing engineers, and supplier partners into clear, actionable recommendations.  
• Advance projects efficiently without compromising quality by applying academic foundations and hands-on experience to make sound daytoday technical, analytical, and coordination decisions.  
• Enable crossdiscipline execution by defining and coordinating analysis, testing, and work instructions that ensure aligned progress across engineering and manufacturing functions.  
• Strengthen decision-making rigor through effective application and continuous improvement of ESW, iDFMEA, FIRG, and structured problemsolving tools such as 7step problem solving and design review checklists.  
• Provide independent technical leadership by owning smaller business-impact projects or complex components/systems with ambiguity and full accountability to the project team.  
• Execute and mature engineering processes by independently applying established and emerging work systems while building deeper product and technology expertise.  
• Build team capability and capacity by coordinating technicians and student employees, and transferring knowledge to lessexperienced engineers through direct or indirect leadership.  
• Influence technical direction as a recognized specialist by guiding project teams, improving functional discipline processes at the site level, and continually developing critical competencies. 

• Performing engineering analysis & design necessary for prototype, production, application and testing of axle/suspension,componentsand systems.
  This will include the use of CAD/CAE tools such as Creo/Pro-Engineer, Creo Simulate/Pro-Mechanica.
• Manage all aspects of engineering products according to customer requirements withfocuson coordinating project timing, costs, testplansand prototype builds.
• Create preliminary concepts of components/systems and work with designers to release detailed drawingpackage.

• BSME (MSME preferred) withminimumof 4 years of full-time direct, practical experience including:

  -Experience with Off-highway/specialty vehicle products and systems
  -Design experience with structural components like casting & forging
  - Excellent understanding of static analysis, fatigue analysis & familiar with fundamentals of dynamic & kinematic studies
  - Knowledge and understanding of vehicle dynamics is preferred
  - Identify, verify and implement solutions to warranty or quality problems that affect product performance

• Hands onexperience with designing large castings, Ansys will be an added advantage.

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Leadendtoendproductdevelopment executionacross the full lifecycle, aligning system requirements, technical profiles, quality targets, and project resources.
• Driveproduct reliabilitythrough proactivefailuremodeavoidance,identifyingsystem interfaces, functional interactions, and root causes using structured risk analysis methods.
• Influencedesign decisionsby applying modeling, simulation, and analytical tools to predict system, subsystem, andcomponentlevelperformance.
• Define, control, and integratesystem interfacesto ensurerequirementscompliance, executing integration plans that enabled early issue detection and resolution.
• Solvecomplex product issuesusingdatadriven,customerprotectiveproblemsolvingprocesses, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Manageproduct verification and validation, negotiating requirements against capability, assessing test and simulation results, and documenting technical recommendations.
• Establishconfiguration and change management discipline,maintainingproduct baselines andcontrollingchanges from concept through obsolescence.
• Producehighqualitytechnical documentation and communicate effectivelyacrosscrossfunctionalteams, enabling knowledge transfer, informing decisions, and producing consistent results.
  

Education

• College, university, or equivalentBachelor's degree in EngineeringorappropriateSTEM field isrequired.
• Post-graduate (Master's) degree relevant to this discipline area may berequiredforselectroles.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience

• Prior Senior or Lead Engineer equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline area isrequiredwith a demonstratedtrack recordof technical problem solving and quality decision making. Knowledge of MS Office tools is preferred.