We are looking for a talented Gear Engineer to join our team specializing in Engineering for our Components Business Segment in Troy, IN.
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.
- 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, coordination across discipline areas that are necessary to make quality progress.
- Applies and improves processes such as Engineering Standard Work (ESW), iDFMEA, Failure Incident Review Group (FIRG) and 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.
- Provides independent leadership of smaller business impact projects or ownership of complex components, products, systems or services with greater elements of ambiguity over the senior or lead engineer level and with full accountability to the project team.
- Delivers independent execution of established and emerging work processes and systems, while still developing technology or product knowledge.
- Leads the development and improvement of work processes and systems across a functional discipline area within a business unit site.
- Coordinates and directs work amongst technicians and temporary student employees, assists in the transfer of knowledge to lesser experienced engineers through either indirect (scope of influence) or direct management of a small, local group of engineers.
- Provides support and guidance to influence technical direction within a project team and continues to develop proficiency in the competency areas critical to success in the role.
- Operates as a recognized specialist in a discipline or product area within the immediate team.
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL NEED THE FOLLOWING:
SKILLS
- 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.
- Builds networks – Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
- 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.
- Manages complexity – Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
- Resourcefulness – Securing and deploying resources effectively and efficiently.
- 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 Senior or Lead Engineer equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline area is required with a demonstrated track record of technical problem solving and quality decision making. Knowledge of MS Office tools is preferred.
Overview:
- The Gear Engineer will be responsible for the design and analysis of parallel axis and bevel gears used by Cummins-Meritor in current and future products. The Gear Engineer will also provide support to various product engineering groups and provide specialist guidance in application, development, manufacturing, quality of
- Cummins-Meritor geared products. Responsibilities require some basic experience in various gear design tools. The Gear Engineer will be an individual contributor.
Responsibilities:
- The Gear Engineer will report to the manager of design team and will work both independently and on teams depending on the type of project assignments.
- This position is responsible for gear design and analysis, development of new technologies to continually improving product performance and to reduce costs and to work closely with Cummins-Meritor gear development center (GDC) to develop gears.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Design, development, test, and release of all types of gears, splines and clutch teeth.
- Analyze and optimize all designs for performance requirements.
- Calculates designs for various manufacturing systems and interfaces.
- Assure gear design meets all internal and external performance and durability requirements.
- Responsible for analyzing gear inspection reports, engineering tests results, and issuing required approval letters.
- Troubleshooting of performance tests is required as necessary.
- Approve test Lab set-ups and test reports.
- Responsible for development and maintenance of DVP and DFMEAs plans on related gear programs.
- Ability to work on multiple programs and on teams.
- Responsible for conducting appropriate technology studies and investigations to obtain the best gear products in the market, utilizing current technological advances and corresponding engineering tools and manufacturing equipment within established schedules.
- Interfaces with various functional areas, gear machine and tooling vendors supply system to coordinate for a timely release of the new gear product or revisions into production.
- Develops engineering tools for accurate gear performance evaluation, to lead to the best gear geometry for performance most effective cost.
- Attend product reviews, design reviews and customer meetings as necessary.
- Assist Cummins Meritor domestic and international facilities as required.
- Be able to travel domestically and internationally.
- Be able to write detailed technical reports and make technical presentations.
- Develop and Implement Best Practices.
- Ensure timely completion of all project objectives.
Qualifications:
- Effective organization, documentation, and communication skills.
- Highly analytical and detail oriented is desired.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Relevant software skills: Kissoft, Microsoft Office, these are pluses: Gleason Cage/GEMS, Kimos and Calyx.
- Problem solver who embraces an interest in reducing design cycle time, root cause resolution, and proactive design robustness philosophies.
- Consistently drives for increased responsiveness and pro-activity, especially in regards to meeting and anticipating customer expectations.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
Base salary rate commensurate with experience. 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.
Base salary range: $84,800 –$127,200
Please note that the salary range provided is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. The final salary offer will be determined after considering relevant factors, including a candidate’s qualifications and experience, where appropriate.