Mechanical Engineering Specialist

Location: Sandwich, Kent, United Kingdom

We are looking for a talented Mechanical Engineering Specialist to join our EMEIA Engineering team in Sandwich, United Kingdom, supporting Engineer-to-Order (ETO) products.

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

• Drive cross-functional alignment: Act as a central coordination point between engineering, customer teams, suppliers, and manufacturing to ensure seamless collaboration and informed decision-making.
• Enable high-quality product decisions: Gather and synthesize stakeholder input to provide clear, data-driven recommendations that support product performance, cost, and reliability goals.
• Accelerate project progress:  Apply technical knowledge and sound judgement to make timely decisions on day-to-day project details, ensuring momentum without compromising quality.
• Own components and deliver results: Take full accountability for smaller projects or complex components, managing ambiguity and ensuring successful delivery against expectations.
• Strengthen engineering processes: Apply and continuously improve structured methodologies such as ESW, DFMEA, FIRG, and 7-step problem solving to enhance product quality and consistency.
• Lead execution excellence: Independently execute established and emerging work processes while contributing to the development of improved systems within the function.
• Mentor and guide others: Coordinate work across technicians and junior engineers, sharing knowledge and supporting capability development within the team.
• Provide technical influence: Act as a trusted specialist within your discipline, contributing to technical direction and helping the team make sound engineering and product decisions.

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.This product focused position performs established technical tasks at the sub-system and/or component level for current and future products within a given business unit or corporate area. This involves work across many steps in the product life cycle. Because of the product centered nature of this position, they are very often a central point of coordination and decision making between product line engineers, customer teams, systems engineers, purchasing, suppliers and manufacturing.