Senior Maintenance & Reliability Engineer

Cummins Inc; Morristown (TN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Cummins Inc. in Morristown, TN is seeking a Senior Maintenance & Reliability Engineer to strengthen manufacturing operations. You will maximize equipment availability, apply advanced diagnostics, and guide calibration and safety practices across forging, CNC, and heat‑treat equipment.

You’ll influence capital decisions and drive continuous improvement in a hands‑on, cross‑functional team. Expectation includes strong knowledge of LOTO, permits, regulatory compliance, and experience with eMaint,

Qualifications

• Maximize equipment availability and reliability across forging, CNC, and heat‑treat systems.
• Advanced diagnostic and RCA capability for presses, hydraulics, and linear systems.
• Precision mechanical and calibration skills for presses, CNC, broaches, conveyors.
• Strong adherence to LOTO, permits, risk assessments, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with maintenance platforms and ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborative partnerships with engineering, operations, and safety to meet production and quality objectives.
• Audience‑focused communication to diverse groups to accelerate decision‑making.
• Drawing‑driven process optimization to meet specifications and improve manufacturability.
• Controls engineering integration to ensure equipment aligns with manufacturing systems.
• Continuous improvement execution to reduce waste, cost, and downtime.
• Lead safety leadership to build an injury‑free workplace culture.

Skills

Maintenance expertise

Diagnostics

Calibration

Safety leadership

Education

College degree

Tools

eMaint

Oracle ERP

Kronos

Job description

We’re seeking a talentedSenior Maintenance & Reliability Engineer to join our team specializing in Manufacturing for our Morristown, TN Cummins location.

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

• Collaborative partnerships : You’ll drive stronger cross‑functional alignment by working closely with engineering, operations, and safety teams to meet shared production and quality objectives.

• Audience‑focused communication : You’ll tailor technical and operational messages to diverse groups, ensuring clarity, reducing misinterpretation, and accelerating decision‑making.

• Health and safety leadership : You’ll model proactive safety behaviors, identify risks early, and influence others to build an interdependent, injury‑free workplace culture.

• Controls‑related hazard mitigation : You’ll recognize electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic risks and integrate safe practices into daily work plans, directly reducing incidents and downtime.

• Drawing‑driven process optimization : You’ll interpret product and equipment drawings to design manufacturing processes that meet specifications and improve manufacturability.

• Equipment procurement excellence : You’ll influence capital decisions by selecting equipment that meets technical requirements, improves capability, and supports long‑term operational goals.

• Continuous improvement execution : You’ll identify waste, implement improvement methodologies, and reduce cost while improving quality and throughput.

• Controls engineering integration : You’ll apply controls hardware and software expertise to ensure new and upgraded equipment integrates seamlessly with manufacturing systems.

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

• Comprehensive maintenance expertise : You need the ability to maximize equipment availability and reliability across forging, CNC machining, and heat‑treat systems through disciplined preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance practices.

• Advanced diagnostic and RCA capability : Success requires strong troubleshooting skills for presses, ejectors, clutches, spindles, hydraulics, and linear systems, paired with structured root‑cause analysis and permanent corrective‑action implementation.

• Precision mechanical and calibration skills : You must be proficient in alignment, balancing, installation, calibration, and accuracy‑improvement activities for presses, CNC machines, broaches, heaters, conveyors, and heat‑treat equipment.

• Safety, systems, and leadership capability : You need strong adherence to LOTO, permits, risk assessments, and statutory compliance, along with the ability to guide and train maintenance personnel and work effectively with platforms like eMaint, Oracle ERP, and Kronos.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

College, university, or equivalent degree required.

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

Experience:

Intermediate level of relevant work experience required.

Technical competency

• Troubleshoot mechanical issues related to Forging press, Ejector system, Clutch mechanism, spindle systems, ball screws, linear guides, hydraulic units etc.

• Perform root cause analysis for recurring equipment failures and implement permanent corrective actions.

• Understanding of machine electrical schematics along with PLC troubleshooting is essential.

• Maintain forging presses, billet heaters, conveyors, CNC Machine, Broaches and plant utility equipment.

• Ensure proper alignment, balance,and installation of mechanical equipment.

• Support machine accuracy improvement through calibration and preventive maintenance activities.

• Maintain heat treatment furnaces, quench tanks, tempering furnaces, atmosphere control systems, burners, fans, and cooling systems.

• Prepare spare parts specifications and procurement requirements.

• Ensure compliance with plant safety procedures, lockout/tagout (LOTO), permit-to-work systems, and statutory requirements.

• Conduct risk assessments before maintenance activities.

• Provide technical guidance and training to maintenance personnel.

Job Manufacturing

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category On-site with Flexibility

Job Type Exempt - Experienced

Relocation Package Yes

100% On-Site No

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