DWU - CESC - Production Team Associate - 1st Shift

Cummins Inc.; Columbus (IN); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Cummins Inc. is seeking a manufacturing-focused professional to uphold safety standards and drive continuous improvement on the shop floor. You will work across teams to ensure quality, equipment readiness and efficient production to meet customer requirements.

The role emphasizes adherence to standardized processes, participation in rotations, and proactive problem-solving in a dynamic manufacturing environment at Cummins facilities.

Qualifications

• Shows resilience when facing setbacks and adversity.
• Collaborates with teammates to meet shared objectives.
• Communicates effectively across multiple audiences and modes.
• Demonstrates courage to address difficult issues.
• Makes quality decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Drives results even under pressure and difficult circumstances.
• Maintains accountability for self and others.
• Manages ambiguity in changing conditions and directions.
• Manages complexity of information to solve problems.
• Exhibits organizational savvy navigating policy and processes.
• Understands health and safety fundamentals and promotes interdependent culture.
• Shows manufacturing knowledge by applying changes to processes and equipment for continuous improvement.
• Values differences and diverse perspectives.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety systems function properly and the work area is safe.
• Follow standardized processes and daily procedures.
• Use standardized work to drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain polyvalence and participate in job rotations.
• Ensure product quality by identifying and reworking defects.
• Take proactive action to solve problems practically.
• Support production by reinforcing lines when needed.
• Encourage and implement continuous improvement ideas.
• Keep the work area clean and organized.
• Coordinate with team managers to manage daily operations and rotations.

Skills

Resilience

Collaboration

Effective communication

Courage

Decision quality

Results orientation

Accountability

Ambiguity management

Complexity management

Organizational savvy

Health and Safety fundamentals

Manufacturing knowledge

Valuing differences

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

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

• Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Stop work and immediately report any major injury hazards.

• Report any work related injury, illness, incident or hazard. Comply with HSE standards, policies, procedures and regulations. Use appropriate personal protective equipment. Promote interdependence by looking out for one another.

• Correct hazards within your control and capabilities. Recognize how your work may impact the environment and work to minimize the negative impact. Engage in HSE Training. Quality Follows all applicable standard work, process documentation and quality procedures such as Statistical Process Control (SPC), poka-yoke and visual standards. Raises issues to minimize cost and quality exposures. Performs quality inspections. Identifies and controls non-conforming material.

• Delivery Fully proficient with all work processes, independently operating equipment to manufacture and assemble product in order to create the proper characteristics and dimensions necessary to meet customer expectations.

• Leads and coordinates others acting as a formal resource for team members with less capability.

• Achieves production goals. Works at the required cycle time or defined engineering standard. Maintains clean and orderly work area, including routine housekeeping tasks and machine cleaning tasks and performs planned operator care and maintenance tasks.

• Remains flexible and performs other miscellaneous duties, as required, to meet production goals. Works with peers, skilled trades and support staff to maintain and identify equipment needing repair.

• Adapts quickly to changing conditions. Effectively handles risk.

• Deals constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes.

• Teamwork Communicates effectively with the assigned team and with all support teams Completes training and personal development in line with business requirements Actively leads the identification and ways in which to improve quality, safety, process, material flow, and employee development

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

• Being resilient - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.

• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

• Courage - Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.

• Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.

• Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.

• Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.

• Manages ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.

• Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

• Organizational savvy - Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics.

• Health and Safety Fundamentals - Champions and models proactive health and safety behaviors by identifying, reporting and participating in actions to improve health and safety in order to build an interdependent culture and contribute to an injury-free workplace.

• Manufacturing Knowledge - Demonstrates the knowledge of manufacturing by correctly implementing changes in current processes, equipment, and applications to meet the function's needs and contribute towards continuous improvement.

• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.

Experience:

Significant work experience and in-depth knowledge obtained through specialized training and relevant experience.

• Ensure all safety systems are functioning properly and that the work area is safe at all times.

• Follow standardized processes in detail and perform daily activities according to established procedures.

• Use Standardized Work principles to drive continuous performance improvement.

• Maintain polyvalence by being trained and capable of performing multiple roles, and stay aware of job rotations.

• Ensure product quality by identifying, analyzing, and reworking defects when necessary.

• Take proactive action in problem-solving with a realistic and practical understanding of issues.

• Support production by reinforcing the line when a team member is absent or when additional support is required.

• Encourage continuous improvement ideas and actively participate in implementing solutions.

• Maintain cleanliness, organization, and overall tidiness of the work area.

• Collaborate with the Team Manager, Supervisor, and Coordinator to manage job rotations and daily operations effectively

Job Manufacturing

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category On-site with Flexibility

Job Type Shop

ReqID 2436281

Relocation Package Yes

100% On-Site No

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