Product Engineering Senior Specialist

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.

Key Responsibilities:

- Obtains input from stakeholders such as technical managers, project leaders, other product and manufacturing engineers and supplier partners to deliver information and recommendations that lead to quality product decisions.

- Applies academic knowledge and existing experience to take action and make decisions that progress projects forward without sacrificing project quality expectations.

- Examples of these decisions include day to day project details, analysis or test work instruction details, coordination across discipline areas that are necessary to make quality progress.

- Applies and improves processes such as Engineering Standard Work (ESW), iDFMEA, Failure Incident Review Group (FIRG) and tools such as 7-step problem solving, design review checklist and other specialized tools required to support the processes and enable high quality decision making.

- Provides independent leadership of smaller business impact projects or ownership of complex components, products, systems or services with greater elements of ambiguity over the senior or lead engineer level and with full accountability to the project team.

- Delivers independent execution of established and emerging work processes and systems, while still developing technology or product knowledge.

- Leads the development and improvement of work processes and systems across a functional discipline area within a business unit site.

- Coordinates and directs work amongst technicians and temporary student employees, assists in the transfer of knowledge to lesser experienced engineers through either indirect (scope of influence) or direct management of a small, local group of engineers.

- Provides support and guidance to influence technical direction within a project team and continues to develop proficiency in the competency areas critical to success in the role.

- Operates as a recognized specialist in a discipline or product area within the immediate team.

1. Fluent Japanese communication is preferred (reading, writing & speaking). Person should have high level of understanding of Japanese work culture.

2. Frequent travel between the Isuzu warehouse and Tochigi plant will be necessary to support ongoing quality and claim-related activities. Driving license preferred.
3. Working closely with customers on site at their premises at Tochigi assembly plant and warehouse facility

4. Flexibility in working hours may be required at times, depending on the operational needs at the warehouse or plant.
5. But it will be required for the candidate to draft presentation & e-mails & reports in English & have business level English fluency to deal with Cummins global team members.

Candidates would have to manage Engineering Change Management for Isuzu & Cummins in connection with each other.

Candidate will have to deal with Cummins Global teams like US, India, UK et al. Candidate would have to work with Isuzu customer. Candidate is expected to have good collaboration skill, good English communication & negotiation skill & customer management skills.