Application Engineer Placement

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Application Engineer Placement

Our culture believes in POWERING YOUR POTENTIAL. We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place and work with today’s most innovative thinkers to solve the world’s toughest problems. 

We believe in flexibility for you to explore your passions while making an impact through meaningful work within our inclusive workforce. That’s what # LifeAtCummins is all about.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Placement Student Application Engineering to join our team for 12 months, specializing in Engineering for our Turbocharger business segment in Huddersfield. During your placement, you will learn how a major global organization operates, gaining the tools and exposure you will need to launch your career in the industry and power your potential!

This role is available to candidates who qualify for a placement year and will commence 1 July 2025.

External Qualifications and Competencies

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

• Applying a broad level of technical awareness across multiple engineering disciplines such as engine performance, mechanics, aerodynamics and design.
• Working with customers to manage their requirements, collaborating with internal stakeholders to review and assess against product capabilities, then developing detailed specifications for new products.
• Creating then managing validation plans to ensure products are robust and proven to meet the customers’ requirements. Leveraging internal testing capabilities within our laboratory operations by specifying test plans, analyzing data and leading technical reviews of the results.
• Supporting general customer enquiries, providing a high quality and timely level of service.
• Sourcing information, interpreting data, developing and implementing solutions that are results focused and to agreed deadlines, as per technical requests.
• Using internal systems and document libraries, ensuring robust written communication and record keeping.

Additional Responsibilities Unique to this Position

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

• Ambitious and adaptable with ability to propose innovative solutions to problems.
• Confidence in both verbal and written communication. Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and effective manner with both internal stakeholders and our customers.
• Proactive mindset with willingness and ability to learn new skills, both self-taught and teacher led.

Working at Cummins 

At Cummins, we are dedicated to diversity in the workplace and our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, and/or expression or other status protected by law. 

CLOSING DATE: Monday 4th November 2024, 11:59pm

About Cummins

Cummins Inc. is a global technology company designing, manufacturing, distributing and servicing a broad portfolio of reliable, clean power solutions; including diesel, natural gas, hybrid, electric and other alternative solutions.

Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana (U.S.), since its founding in 1919, Cummins’ culture is one that believes in POWERING YOUR POTENTIAL. We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place and work alongside today’s most innovative thinkers to solve the world’s toughest problems. We believe in flexibility for you to explore your passions and make an impact through meaningful work within our diverse workforce.

How to apply

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Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.