**DESCRIPTION** Key Responsibilities: + Build Relationships: Develop strong relationships with external suppliers, customers, and internal stakeholders such as Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Engineering. + Supplier Selection: Support the cross-functional supplier selection process for components. + Process Validation: Collaborate with external suppliers to ensure manufacturing processes conform to engineering standards and customer requirements. + Quality Planning: Apply Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) processes, Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) tools, and Cummins specialty tools to develop zero defect components. + Continuous Improvement: Contribute to product and process improvement projects using methodologies like lean and six-sigma. + Supplier Audits: Conduct audits to mitigate risks, ensure readiness, and improve performance. + Quality Improvement: Support quality improvement plans to enhance supplier performance. + Problem Resolution: Lead root cause analysis, develop corrective actions, and verify their effectiveness. **RESPONSIBILITIES** **Qualifications:** + Education: College, university, or equivalent degree in Engineering or a related technical or scientific subject. + Licensing: May require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations. **Competencies:** + Communication: Develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of different audiences' needs. + Customer Focus: Build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions. + Auditing: Apply auditing skills and Quality Management Systems knowledge to appraise manufacturing processes. + Technical Interpretation: Apply Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing principles and Engineering Standards to interpret technical requirements. + Process Design: Design manufacturing processes that consistently meet technical and customer requirements. + Process Validation: Use core Automotive tools (DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plan, SPC, MSA, Source Release, PPAP) to validate manufacturing processes. + Measurement Design: Design measurement systems that meet industry and customer requirements. + Problem Solving: Use systematic analysis processes and industry methodologies to solve problems and mentor others. + Quality Influence: Engage stakeholders, drive constructive conflict, and influence outcomes to ensure balanced decisions. + Quality Standards: Apply knowledge of ISO9001:2015 and IATF16949 to develop procedures and processes. + Statistical Foundations: Use statistical tools to influence decision-making and drive improvement actions. + Supplier Improvement: Develop and execute quality improvement strategies to enhance supplier performance. + Project Planning: Apply APQP skills to develop and execute quality plans for external suppliers. + Value Differences: Recognize the value of different perspectives and cultures. **QUALIFICATIONS** **Skills and Experience:** + Work Environment: Ability to work from the office. + Hands-on Experience: Experience in Heat Treatment, Casting, and Machining. + Metallurgical Skills: Control of heat treating processes, furnaces, and auxiliary equipment; quench&temper of wrought steel; carburizing processes; induction hardening; steels for quenching&tempering; steel mill selection&approval. + Forging Skills: Technical feasibility, simulation, die design; material certifications; steel bar quality; heating practices; types of forging&application; process defects– RCA&corrective actions; machinability– hardness, mechanical&chemical composition; defects. + Machining Skills: Understand part design; determine material (tools, inserts, coolant); machining features; machining methods; setups&tool changes; sequence of operations; tolerance and surface finish requirements; tool and machine limitations. + Self-Motivation: Ability to take ownership and drive actions at the supplier end. + Coordination: Close coordination with regional plants (NA, SA, Europe). + Team Player: Ability to work effectively in a team environment. + Experience: Preferably, a minimum of 3 years in a Manufacturing or Engineering role in the automotive industry or a similarly regulated industry. **Job** Quality **Organization** Cummins Inc. **Role Category** Remote **Job Type** Exempt - Experienced **ReqID** 2415022 **Relocation Package** Yes