We are looking for a talented Advanced Manufacturing Associate to join our team specializing in Manufacturing for our Cummins Inc. facility in Columbus, IN.
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:
- Ensuring Safety: By stopping work and reporting any major injury hazards immediately, you will help maintain a safe working environment.
- Compliance and Reporting: Your adherence to HSE standards and prompt reporting of any work-related injuries, illnesses, incidents, or hazards will ensure regulatory compliance and workplace safety.
- Environmental Stewardship: Recognizing and minimizing the negative impact of your work on the environment will contribute to sustainable practices.
- Quality Assurance: By following and helping others apply standard work, policies, and procedures, you will uphold high-quality standards and reduce costs and exposures.
- Continuous Improvement: Supporting and participating in continuous improvement activities will enhance quality, safety, processes, and employee development.
- Mentorship and Training: Instructing and coaching team members will foster a collaborative and skilled workforce.
- Operational Excellence: Applying Cummins Operating System (COS) practices and Operations Excellence (OE) methodology will drive efficiency and effectiveness throughout the plant.
- Team Collaboration: Effective communication with your team and support teams will ensure smooth operations and continuous personal and professional development.
To be successful in this role you will need the following:
- Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- Courage - Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
- Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
- Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
- Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
- Health and Safety Fundamentals - Champions and models proactive health and safety behaviors by identifying, reporting and participating in actions to improve health and safety in order to build an interdependent culture and contribute to an injury-free workplace.
- Manufacturing Knowledge - Demonstrates the knowledge of manufacturing by correctly implementing changes in current processes, equipment, and applications to meet the function's needs and contribute towards continuous improvement.
- Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
Education, Licenses, Certifications:
High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent required
Must be program ready for the required curriculum and certification expectation
Experience:
Key Functional Skills/Other Work Demands: -Has strong written and oral communication skills -Basic knowledge of COS principles and practices -Displays a commitment to quality -Engine build familiarization --Basic PC skills -Able to handle change -Displays active listening skills -Possess sense of urgency -Strong organizational skills -Be willing and able to participate in any required meetings and training -Safety minded -Able to work long and flexible shifts including weekends -Able to work well with other departments -Able to follow directions well -Self-motivated and dependable -Able to multi-task -Problem solving
- Monitor and control production processes to ensure adherence to safety protocols, quality standards, and production targets. Operate and maintain process equipment, including Robots, HMI's, Parameters, and control systems. Perform routine inspections and maintenance activities to identify and resolve equipment malfunctions or abnormalities.
- Troubleshoot process-related issues, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to develop and implement process improvements, including efficiency enhancements and cost reduction initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, environmental standards, and safety procedures. Train and mentor junior technicians and operators on process operations, safety protocols, and equipment maintenance systems.
- Participate in safety meetings, incident investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives. Maintain accurate documentation of process parameters, equipment logs, maintenance records, and production reports.
- Must be Team oriented, driven to succeed and be a leader.
- Adhere to all safety Standards and Regulations and develop Hazard Awareness among the Team.