Technical Project Leader Product Advisors #IN1210

DESCRIPTION

Lead the overall technical coordination of complex mechanical and automotive systems product development activities and be accountable for the project management of technical risk and quality of the product up to and including early production. Integrate the requirements of interdisciplinary and cross-functional stakeholders of product development, including making key decisions that impact cost and delivery without sacrifice to the quality expectations of the Value Package Profile (VPP). Obtain input and negotiate with program leadership, product engineers and technology teams to deliver robust prototype and production designs, technical risk mitigation plans, and coordinate deliverables of new or current product change activity. Work extensively in the engineering processes of Product Preceding Technology (PPT), Value Package Introduction (VPI), and Current Product Support (CPS) using tools including Product Development Six Sigma (PDSS), iDFMEA, Voice of the Customer and Voice of Other Stakeholders (VOC/VOX), and project risk 9-box to support high quality decision making. Establish and maintain the balances triangle of Scope, Schedule and Resources for projects as part of Project Management. Oversee the product development execution, monitoring, and control activities involved in developing complex products to respectively aligned hierarchies of requirements and technical profiles. Perform product function modeling, simulation and analysis using tools and methods that predict the capability of a product's function relative to its system, sub-system or component-level requirements. Take mitigating actions when project risks are higher than expected and lead the full product life cycle process. Translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements to which system designs are developed and establish acceptance criteria for the system of interest through analysis, allocation and negotiation as part of System Requirements Engineering. Integrate all of the market and key customer needs of a given product platform into a comprehensive and holistic development plan. Solve highly complex product problems using the 7-Step Product Problem Solving Process to determine the assignable cause, implement robust, data-based solutions, and identify the systemic root causes to recommend actions to prevent problem reoccurrence. Coordinate the development of design verification and system validation plans to identify failure modes while managing risk and relative priority.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Positions require a Master's degree in Mechanical or Automotive Engineering, or related field and 3 years of experience as a Technical Project or Product Engineer, or related position. Alternatively, the employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Automotive Engineering, or related field and 5 years of experience as a Technical Project or Product Engineer, or related position. Experience to include: Deliver robust prototype and production designs and technical risk mitigation plans; Product Preceding Technology (PPT), Value Package Introduction (VPI), and Current Product Support (CPS); Product Development Six Sigma (PDSS), iDFMEA, Voice of the Customer and Voice of Other Stakeholders (VOC/VOX); Scope, Schedule, Resource and Project Management; Product development execution, monitoring, and control; Product function modeling, simulation and analysis; System Requirements Engineering; Product platform development; 7-Step Product Problem Solving Process to determine the assignable cause and identify the systemic root causes; Develop design verification and system validation plans.

QUALIFICATIONS

Start Date of Posting: 10/09/2025

End Date of Posting: 10/24/2025

Position Type: Hybrid

Location: Columbus, IN and various unanticipated worksites throughout the U.S.

*Annual USD Salary Minimum - Maximum: $135,491 to $164,400

Job Engineering

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category Hybrid

Job Type Exempt - Experienced

Min Salary $

Max Salary $

Application End Date 25-OCT-2025

ReqID 2420130

Relocation Package Yes

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