Project Engineer - Technical Specialist

Location: Shoreview, MN, United States

We are looking for a talented Project Engineer - Technical Specialist to join our team specializing in Engineering for our Cummins Inc. facility in Shoreview, MN. 

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

• Serve as a senior technical liaison between Cummins and OEM partners, ensuring customer needs, product requirements, and integration expectations are clearly communicated throughout new product development programs.
• Drive high‑quality product integration by developing technical specifications, guiding design configurations, and ensuring Cummins products are applied correctly across diverse customer applications.
• Strengthen product performance and installation quality through the effective use of processes and tools such as Installation Quality Assurance, COLS, Advisor, ALD, and Six Sigma.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with customer technical teams, providing expert guidance on specifications, product changes, installation issues, and advanced technical inquiries.
• Translate the voice of the customer into actionable product requirements, influencing program decisions and advocating for customer and market needs during design reviews and development cycles.
• Validate prototype machine performance and ensure installations meet Cummins standards, contributing to optimized system performance and reliable field operations.
• Lead customer‑focused initiatives, mentor less experienced engineers, and support knowledge transfer to elevate technical capability across the team.
• Provide independent leadership on complex components, systems, or projects with significant ambiguity, driving process improvements and shaping technical direction within the functional discipline.

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 dual customer/product focused position serves as the senior technical liaison between OEMs and represents our customers during new product development programs. Applying Cummins’ products to customer vehicles requires the development of technical specifications, implementing new design configurations, and delivering high performance, low-cost equipment and system solutions integrated with customers’ products in a variety of applications. Integrating high quality and optimized customer solutions requires the interaction with sales and marketing teams.