YDA Specifications Engineer - Senior

We are looking for a talented YDA Specifications Engineer – Senior to join our Cummins Drivetrain and Braking Systems (CDBS) Manufacturing team located in York, SC.

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

- Drive Manufacturing Readiness: Ensure customer BOMs, specifications, engineering drawings, and production requirements are accurately translated into manufacturing processes, systems, tooling, and equipment to support safe, high-quality production.

- Serve as the Technical Data Expert: Act as the primary subject matter expert for customer product data, identifying risks, resolving discrepancies, and ensuring manufacturing teams have the information needed to execute successfully.

- Improve System Reliability: Develop and maintain SQL queries, reporting tools, and manufacturing system solutions that strengthen data integrity, production controls, traceability, and operational performance.

- Partner Across Functions: Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Quality, Materials, Safety, and Customer teams to implement changes, solve complex issues, and achieve shared business objectives.

- Enable Continuous Improvement: Lead projects that reduce manual intervention, improve manufacturing system effectiveness, eliminate waste, and enhance product quality through data-driven decision making.

- Solve Complex Manufacturing Challenges: Apply structured problem-solving methodologies to identify root causes, implement sustainable corrective actions, and prevent recurring production and data-related issues.

- Standardize and Strengthen Processes: Develop and maintain manufacturing procedures, standard work, and process documentation that support consistency, compliance, operational excellence, and workforce readiness.

- Advance Digital Manufacturing Capabilities: Support transformation initiatives by leveraging manufacturing systems, customer data integration, automation, and exception monitoring to proactively address issues before they impact production.

- Serve as the YDA site subject matter expert for Customer Bills of Material (BOMs), specifications, engineering drawings, and associated manufacturing data, ensuring accuracy and alignment with manufacturing requirements.
- Review and assess Customer BOM, specification, drawing, and production schedule changes, evaluating impacts on manufacturing processes, equipment, tooling, materials, quality, and production readiness.
- Manage the flow of Customer product and schedule data into manufacturing systems, identifying anomalies, determining root causes, and coordinating corrective actions to maintain operational continuity.
- Collaborate with Customers and cross-functional teams to resolve missing, incorrect, incomplete, or incompatible product, schedule, and manufacturing data.
- Support enhancements to manufacturing system logic and configurations to accommodate new Customer requirements, product variations, and production processes.
- Develop, maintain, and optimize SQL queries, databases, and applications supporting production controls, BOM validation, material sequencing, feeder schedules, and exception reporting.
- Provide technical support for Apriso and other manufacturing systems to ensure effective production execution, traceability, error-proofing, and No-Fault-Forward compliance.
- Validate that manufacturing processes, equipment, tooling, and systems are capable of consistently meeting current Customer design and product requirements.
- Partner with Manufacturing Engineers and Operations teams to develop and maintain Standard Work, process documentation, and training to support manufacturing changes and process adoption.
- Communicate Customer-driven changes, operational risks, and implementation requirements to Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Quality, Materials, Safety, and other affected stakeholders.
- Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives focused on manufacturing system reliability, data integrity, product quality, operational efficiency, and reduction of manual processes.
- Maintain manufacturing databases to ensure reliability, availability, performance, data retention, and scalability while supporting long-term business needs.
- Support digital transformation and process improvement initiatives by leveraging expertise in manufacturing systems, data integration, SQL development, production controls, and process implementation.
- Design and implement automated exception monitoring, reporting, and alerting capabilities to proactively identify recurring data and system issues before they impact production.

Please note that the salary range provided is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. The final salary offer will be determined after considering relevant factors, including a candidate’s qualifications and experience, where appropriate.