Engineering Product Specialist

Position Title: Product Engineer Specialist - Pneumatic & Electro-Pneumatic Brake Control Valves Reports To: Principal Engineer
Function: Advanced Engineering

Overview:
This position will be part of the Advanced Engineering & Innovation Group within the Cummins Drivetrain & Braking System division. As Product Engineer Specialist, Pneumatic/Electro-Pneumatic Brake Control Valves, your primary focus will be on design, development, and optimization of pneumatic and electro-pneumatic valves used on Commercial Vehicle Braking Systems.

Principal Accountabilities:
• Lead engineering activities related to the development of pneumatic and electro-pneumatic brake control valves used in Medium and Heavy-Duty Commercial Vehicles EBS (Electronic Braking Systems). This will include ABS modulator Valves, EBS modulator valves, Foot Brake Valve, Parking Brake Valve, Trailer Control Valve, Leveling Valve, Air control Unit, etc.
• Lead design activities directing work of designers and less experienced engineers.
• Lead DFMEA and DVP&R activity.
• Support systems engineering group in creation of air/mass-flow analysis.
• Work closely with SW Controls and Systems engineering teams to ensure products are designed to meet required specifications.
• Mentor less experienced engineers.

Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics engineering, or any related engineering field. Master’s Degree in Engineering is highly desired.
• 7+ years of working experience with Pneumatic Braking Systems used in Medium and Heavy-Duty Commercial Vehicles
• 5+ years of experience designing pneumatic and/or electro-pneumatic valves for Braking Controls
• Good understanding of braking system performance and its influence in vehicle dynamics behavior.
• Experience with braking systems vehicle testing activities on test tracks/proving grounds (ABS, ASR, ESC, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with vehicle network topology (CAN, LIN, ethernet, etc.) and E&E architecture is a plus.

Competencies:
•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 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.
•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.
•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.
•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.
•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.
•Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
•Design and Application of Open/Closed Loop Controls - Specifies software features that interact with mechanical, hydraulic, chemical and electronic systems to deliver desired system states; specifies control system architectures which include appropriate measurements, correct actuation, and algorithms for Cummins' products; configures and/or understands open/closed loop feedback controls features and the system interactions between hardware and software in Cummins' products.
•Product Configuration and Change Management - Establishes a baseline of identified product artifacts to be placed under configuration management; releases, tracks, controls and communicates changes from concept to obsolescence often through work requests; establishes and maintains the integrity of the product artifact baselines.
•Mechanical Design of Mechanical Systems - Acquires and applies an in-depth understanding of mechanical systems through working knowledge that guides a designer’s ability to create innovative and sound design concepts to meet Cummins and customer expectations; designs for requirements of all lifecycle stages by considering the customer requirements in different operating environments to ensure a robust system.
•Mechanical Design Specification - Creates complete specifications in the form of solid models, configured engineering bill of materials and detailed drawings that cross-functionally communicate the information required to manufacture and inspect a product per its design intent; considers national, international, industry, and Cummins’ standards that accurately and concisely define the part specification.