DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a Manufacturing Engineering - Technical Advisor Technology to join our team specializing in Manufacturing for our Cummins location in Fletcher, NC. 

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

• Strengthening Collaboration: You will build trusted partnerships across engineering, operations, supply chain, and leadership teams to align priorities and drive shared outcomes.
• Elevating Communication: You will deliver clear, audience specific communication that improves decision making, accelerates alignment, and ensures complex technical information is understood at all levels.
• Driving Innovation: You will champion new ideas, technologies, and process improvements that enhance manufacturing efficiency, product quality, and long term competitiveness.
• Building High Performing Teams: You will cultivate strong, cohesive teams that leverage diverse skills and perspectives to solve problems and achieve ambitious goals.
• Developing Future Talent: You will mentor and grow team members, helping them build capabilities that support both their career progression and the organization’s strategic needs.
• Optimizing Equipment & Integration: You will lead the selection of capital equipment and ensure seamless integration between product design and manufacturing processes, enabling efficient, scalable production.
• Championing Safety & Operational Excellence: You will model proactive safety behaviors, reinforce an interdependent safety culture, and drive continuous improvement toward an injury free workplace.
• Enhancing Business & Financial Impact: You will apply strong financial and business insight to navigate complexity, make sound investment decisions, and ensure manufacturing strategies support broader organizational goals.

RESPONSIBILITIES

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

• Assembly Process Expertise: You need the ability to design and optimize assembly processes by defining sequences, takt times, work content balancing, standard work, and ergonomic improvements.
• Tooling & Error Proofing Capability: You must be skilled in selecting and applying torque tools, angle-controlled systems, fixtures, nests, and locating mechanisms, while designing PokaYoke solutions that prevent wrong orientation, missing components, and fastener mix-ups.
• Fastening & Joining Knowledge: You need a strong understanding of fastening strategies and the ability to define torque and angle specifications that ensure consistent, high-quality assembly.
• Line Readiness & Ramp Up Leadership: You must be able to lead FAT/SAT trials, PPAP builds, and SOP readiness while balancing manpower and automation, identifying bottlenecks, and driving capacity improvements.
• Machining Process Fundamentals: You need basic machining experience, including defining machining strategies, selecting machines based on rigidity, accuracy, throughput, and cost, and understanding cutting tools, coatings, holders, coolant, speeds, feeds, and depths of cut.
• Cost Reduction Mindset: You must be able to identify high-cost features and tolerance drivers, reduce cycle time and consumable usage, and improve yield through process stabilization and smarter process design.
• DFM/DFA Influence: You need the ability to shape product design early by aligning critical features with machining datums and ensuring parts are easy to orient, locate, and fasten during assembly.
• Cross Problem Solving: You must be capable of diagnosing and resolving issues that span both machining and assembly, ensuring durable, system level solutions.
• Launch & Industrialization Ownership: You need to manage engineering changes during ramp up, support SOP and post SOP stabilization, and balance cost, quality, and throughput to ensure a smooth industrialization process.
• Relevant Experience Requirements: You must bring at least 5 years of assembly process experience and basic machining process experience to make informed decisions and lead technical activities effectively.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

College, university, or degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) or related field, or equivalent experience required.

This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience:

Extensive relevant work experience required, including manufacturing and leadership of a large project or multiple projects.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Projects experience in technical areas is preferred such as assembly technology, CNC machining, complex automation with PLC, MES, Ignition, simple to complex tooling systems, hydraulics, pneumatics and robotics.
• Candidates must be comfortable with approximately 25% domestic travel and 25% international travel (primarily to Mexico) . While the position is based in Fletcher, NC , it requires regular travel to other manufacturing sites—most frequently Forest City, NC and Cienega de Flores, Mexico , with occasional travel to Morristown, TN and Laurinburg, NC .
• The majority of the role’s activities will take place across three key locations: Asheville/Fletcher , Forest City , and Cienega de Flores, Mexico .

Please note that the salary range provided is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. The final salary offer will be determined after considering relevant factors, including a candidate’s qualifications and experience, where appropriate.    

Job Manufacturing

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category On-site with Flexibility

Job Type Exempt - Experienced

ReqID 2423868

Relocation Package Yes

100% On-Site No

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