DWU - CESC - Production Team Associate - 3rd Shift

Cummins Inc.; Columbus (IN); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Cummins Inc. in Columbus, IN is seeking a Production Team Associate to join our manufacturing team. The role focuses on operating production equipment, meeting cycle times, and maintaining a clean, safe workspace while collaborating with peers and support staff to ensure high-quality outcomes.

Ideal candidates show strong teamwork, a proactive safety mindset, and a willingness to learn on the job. The position is on-site with relocation support available and a pathway to permanent employment.

Qualifications

• High school diploma, GED or equivalent required.
• Must pass all related testing.
• Minimal or no work experience required.

Responsibilities

• Operate manual and automated production equipment to manufacture and assemble product.
• Meet production goals by maintaining the required cycle time and engineering standards.
• Keep the work area clean and orderly and perform routine housekeeping and maintenance tasks.
• Collaborate with peers, skilled trades and support staff to identify equipment needing repair or optimization.
• Participate in health, safety initiatives and model safe work practices.

Skills

Collaborates

Communicates effectively

Customer focus

Demonstrates self-awareness

Nimble learning

Self-development

Health and Safety Fundamentals

Values differences

Education

High school diploma, GED or equivalent

Job description

We are looking for a talented Production Team Associate to join our team specializing in Manufacturing for our Cummins Inc. facility in Columbus, IN.

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

• Health, Safety & 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 & 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. Raises issues to minimize cost and quality exposures. Performs quality inspections. Identifies and controls non-conforming material.
• Delivery Operates manual and automated equipment to manufacture and assemble product in order to create the proper characteristics and dimensions necessary to meet customer expectations.
• 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.
• Teamwork Communicates effectively with the assigned team and with all support teams.
• Completes training and personal development in line with business requirements.
• Participates actively in ways to improve quality, safety, process, material flow, and employee development.

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

• 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.
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Demonstrates self-awareness - Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Nimble learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Self-development - Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
• 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.
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Education, Licenses, Certifications

High school diploma, GED or equivalent required. Must pass all related testing.

Experience

Minimal or no work experience required.

• Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Participating in actions to improve health and safety in order to build an interdependent culture and contribute to an injury-free workplace.

Job

Manufacturing

Organization

Cummins Inc.

Role Category

On-site with Flexibility

Job Type

Shop

Relocation Package

Yes

100% On-Site

No

Cummins and E-Verify

At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Cummins validates the right to work using E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Visit http://EEOC.gov to know your rights on workplace discrimination.