Product Systems Validation Intern: Quality by Testing

Cummins Europe; Columbus (IN); On-site; USD 46,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

Cummins Inc. invites students to join a product-focused internship that verifies and validates our range of products across customer requirements and environments.

You will plan, track, and evaluate results from analyses and tests to assess risk and performance, guiding quality decisions before products reach customers. As part of a collaborative team, you will investigate test system problems, support process improvements, and communicate findings to lab staff and suppliers.

Qualifications

• To be successful in this role you will need the following: Product Verification and Validation
• To be successful in this role you will need the following: Product Problem Solving
• To be successful in this role you will need the following: Analytical Modeling and Test Integration/Optimization
• To be successful in this role you will need the following: Product Failure Mode Avoidance
• To be successful in this role you will need the following: System Requirements Engineering
• To be successful in this role you will need the following: Product Interface Management and Integration
• To be successful in this role you will need the following: Development and Management of Technical Function Standards and Practices
• To be successful in this role you will need the following: Decision Quality
• To be successful in this role you will need the following: Drives Results
• To be successful in this role you will need the following: Collaborates
• To be successful in this role you will need the following: Communicates Effectively
• To be successful in this role you will need the following: Self-Development

Responsibilities

• Investigates product test system and process problems, understands causal mechanisms, recommends appropriate action, may include activities in problem resolution and documents results with guidance from more experienced team members.
• Applies and supports the improvement of processes such as test system specification, design and validation and tools such as FMEA, 7-step problem solving, and process hazard analysis, required to support the processes and enable high quality decision making.
• Supports more experienced team members to obtain input and negotiate with lab customers, lab technicians, and component suppliers and delivers test system requirements, processes, and instructions to lab technicians, product functional test engineers and equipment suppliers.
• Supports more experienced team members to make decisions in the areas of component selection, calibration processes, and operating processes that impact test equipment accuracy, reliability, and operating cost.
• May involve activities in problem resolution for moderately complex components, products, systems, subsystems, or services.
• Supervised execution of established work processes and systems, while still developing technology or product knowledge; engages with the improvement of systems and processes.
• No direct management of people but could involve limited coordination of work amongst engineers and technicians.
• Contributes effectively toward team goals and develops proficiency in the competency areas critical to success in the role.

Skills

Analytical modeling

Test integration

System requirements

Product verification

Product problem solving

Product failure mode avoidance

Decision quality

Drives results

Collaborates

Communicates effectively

Self-development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

Cummins Inc. invites students to join a product-focused internship that verifies and validates our range of products across customer requirements and environments.

You will plan, track, and evaluate results from analyses and tests to assess risk and performance, guiding quality decisions before products reach customers. As part of a collaborative team, you will investigate test system problems, support process improvements, and communicate findings to lab staff and suppliers.