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DWU - CESC - OESS Skilled Technician - 3rd Shift

Cummins Inc.

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Compensation
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Location
Columbus, IN
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Cummins is seeking an Operations Engineering Support Specialist for its manufacturing facility in Columbus, Indiana. The role supports production equipment recovery, maintenance, quality inspections, and process improvement. The specialist analyzes equipment failures, documents corrective actions, communicates with stakeholders, and coordinates with team members and support teams. The posting lists an associate degree with relevant experience, a trade certificate with experience, eight years of relevant experience, or Department of Labor certification as qualification paths.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

CollaborationCommunicationCustomer FocusDecision-MakingSelf-AwarenessResults OrientationAccountabilityManaging ComplexityLearning AgilityHealth and SafetyControls SafetyManufacturing KnowledgeValuing DifferencesElectrical AptitudeAllen BradleyPLC and HMIWorking IndependentlyElectrical PrinciplesTroubleshootingElectrical DrawingsSchematicsPLC LogicIndustrial NetworkingSiemens HardwareFanuc RoboticsMES Integration

Qualifications

Associate's Degree or 2-4 Years ExperienceTrade Certificate or 6 Years Experience8 Years Experience or DOL CertificationRelevant Experience

Benefits

Relocation Assistance

Full job description

We are looking for a talented Operations Engineering Support Specialist to join our team specializing in Manufacturing for our Cummins Inc. facility in Columbus, IN.

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

  • Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Stop work and immediately report any major injury hazards.

  • Report any work-related injury, illness, incident or hazard. Comply with HSE standards, policies, procedures and regulations. Use appropriate personal protective equipment.

  • Promote interdependence by looking out for one another. Correct hazards within your control and capabilities. Recognize how your work may impact the environment and work to minimize the negative impact.

  • Engage in HSE Training. Quality Applies high standards of workmanship and craftsmanship. Support equipment failure analysis.

  • Performs work in accordance with diagrams, sketches, operation manuals and specifications using various tools, measuring and testing instruments.

  • Provide feedback into the Preventive Maintenance system. Ensures all process documents and quality procedures are updated and acts as a resource to provide help to others. Raises issues to minimize cost and quality exposures.

  • Performs quality inspections. Delivery Fully proficient performing skilled activities expected by their roles in accordance with defined roles and responsibilities.

  • Leads and coordinates others acting as a formal resource for team members with less capability.

  • Performs and documents preventive, emergency, corrective and predictive maintenance activities.

  • Maintains clean and orderly work area, including routine housekeeping and machine cleaning tasks.

  • Performs other duties as required to meet business goals. Work with peers and support staff to: Identify and reduce manufacturing constraints Solve problems and improve processes Actively identify issues and implement solutions Teamwork Communicates effectively with the assigned team and with all support teams.

  • Completes training and personal development in line with business requirements.

  • Participates actively with local Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) teams in ways to improve quality, safety, process, material flow, and employee development.

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

  • Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

  • Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

  • Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

  • Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.

  • Demonstrates self-awareness - Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.

  • Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.

  • Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.

  • Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

  • Nimble learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.

  • Health and Safety Fundamentals - Champions and models proactive health and safety behaviors by identifying, reporting and participating in actions to improve health and safety in order to build an interdependent culture and contribute to an injury-free workplace.

  • Controls Safety - Recognizes controls related hazards in a manufacturing environment (Electrical, Hydraulic, Pneumatic) to incorporate safe practices and procedures as part of the daily work plan to reduce injuries and create a safe machine environment.

  • Manufacturing Knowledge - Demonstrates the knowledge of manufacturing by correctly implementing changes in current processes, equipment, and applications to meet the function's needs and contribute towards continuous improvement.

  • Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

  • Associate’s degree with two-four years of relevant experience OR

  • Trade certificate with six years of relevant experience OR

  • Eight years of relevant experience OR

  • Department of Labor certification.

Experience:

Significant work experience and in-depth knowledge obtained through specialized training and relevant experience.

Core Responsibilities :

  • Breakdown Recovery - Assist in the recovery of production equipment to operable state

  • Documentation / Root Cause analysis - Collect and analyze data to describe corrective actions / improvements

  • Clear communication of corrective actions to relevant stakeholders.

Required skills :

  • High Electrical aptitude with Allen Bradley experience (PLCs, HMIs)

  • Ability to work alone with little supervision

  • High understanding of electrical principles and troubleshooting methods. (Drawing, Schematics, PLC logic)

  • Understanding of Industrial networking fundamentals

Preferred skills :

  • Siemens industrial hardware experience

  • Fanuc Robot Experience

  • Experience with MES integrations

Job Manufacturing

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category On-site with Flexibility

Job Type Shop

ReqID 2439939

Relocation Package Yes

100% On-Site No

Cummins and E-Verify

At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Cummins validates the right to work using E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Visit http://EEOC.gov to know your rights on workplace discrimination.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,545 open Manufacturing Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$53–81K/yr205 salary ranges
  • US median$24–28/hr750 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 19 open Manufacturing Technician jobs in Indiana and 1,545 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
Manufacturing Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (852 postings).
Education
2 of the 1,545 open Manufacturing Technician jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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