Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Job Description

We're seeking a talented Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our team specializing in Manufacturing for our Fletcher, NC Cummins location.

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

• Collaborative partnerships: You'll strengthen cross-functional relationships, align teams around shared goals, and accelerate execution by making collaboration feel natural and productive.
• Effective communication: You'll tailor messaging to each audience, ensuring clarity, alignment, and faster decision-making across engineering, operations, and leadership.
• Health and safety leadership: You'll model proactive safety behaviors, identify risks early, and help build a culture where safety is embedded in every action and every workstation.
• Drawing interpretation expertise: You'll translate complex design and equipment drawings into practical manufacturing solutions that ensure accuracy, quality, and process reliability.
• Equipment procurement excellence: You'll select the right equipment the first time-meeting specs, reducing downtime, and enabling scalable, cost-effective production.
• Manufacturing analysis-led design: You'll use digital modeling and simulation to predict outcomes, reduce trial-and-error, and drive continuous improvement before physical changes occur.
• Process documentation mastery: You'll create clear, standardized procedures that ensure consistency, reduce variation, and help every stakeholder execute processes correctly.
• Continuous improvement leadership: You'll identify waste, streamline workflows, and implement improvements that reduce cost, enhance quality, and strengthen overall manufacturing performance.

Responsibilities

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

• Strong technical troubleshooting skills: You'll need the ability to diagnose mechanical issues quickly and confidently to keep production running safely, efficiently, and with minimal downtime.
• Advanced CAD and documentation capability: Success requires creating and maintaining accurate models, drawings, and process documentation that guide equipment design, fixture development, and production system improvements.
• Tooling and equipment design expertise: You'll need the skill to design, develop, and implement tooling solutions that support new product launches, optimize existing processes, and elevate operational excellence.
• Continuous improvement mindset: You must be able to identify inefficiencies, optimize processes, and drive improvements that enhance productivity, quality, and safety across the production line.

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:
Intermediate level of relevant work experience required.

Qualifications

• Cross-functional coordination - Ability to work seamlessly with production, maintenance, quality, and design teams to ensure issues are resolved quickly and improvements are implemented smoothly.
• Data-driven decision making - Skilled in using production data, performance metrics, and root-cause analysis to guide process optimization and validate engineering changes.
• Project management capability - Competence in planning, prioritizing, and executing engineering projects, including tooling launches, equipment upgrades, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Change management proficiency - Ability to introduce new processes, tools, and standards in a way that gains operator buy-in and ensures smooth adoption across the production floor.
• Technical leadership - Experience guiding technicians, operators, and junior engineers through troubleshooting, process adjustments, and equipment improvements.
• Risk identification and mitigation - Strength in spotting potential safety, quality, or reliability risks early and implementing corrective actions before they impact operations.
• Operational excellence mindset - Commitment to driving efficiency, reducing waste, and improving throughput using structured methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma, or Kaizen.
• Adaptability in fast-paced environments - Ability to respond quickly to production needs, shifting priorities, and unexpected equipment issues while maintaining high-quality engineering output.
• This role is designated as 100% onsite and may require up to 10% travel

About Us

Cummins is an equal opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.