Repower Program: Technical Information Systems Specialist

At Cummins, we understand that returning to your career after an extended break can feel both exciting and challenging. We deeply value the diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills you bring—and we are committed to supporting you as you continue powering your potential.
RePower, our return-to-work program, is specifically designed for experienced professionals who have at least five years of prior work experience and have taken a career break of two or more years for any reason. Whether your time away was spent caregiving, pursuing education, or addressing personal priorities, RePower provides a structured pathway to help you successfully transition back into the workforce.
 

Through this program, participants are supported with meaningful project work aligned to their expertise, along with dedicated mentoring, training, and professional development opportunities. Our goal is to help you rebuild confidence, refresh your skills, and achieve your career aspirations.
 

This is a six-month, paid opportunity with benefits, designed to provide access to robust internal resources and a supportive environment as you re-engage in your career. During the program, you will contribute to impactful projects that leverage your unique skills, interests, and experience.
 

At the conclusion of the program, successful participants may be considered for full-time employment opportunities.
 

We are excited to learn more about you—your journey, your strengths, and what drives you.  For Program Overview visit: https://repower.cummins.jobs/
 

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

• Investigates technical information and knowledge based infrastructure opportunities and challenges; understands causal mechanisms, recommends appropriate action, owns problem resolution and documents results. 
• Designs and/or provides support of information processes such as Engineering Standard Work (ESW), Value Package Introduction (VPI, change management and data repositories such as technical information libraries, all required to meet the needs of practitioners within the technical function. 
• Obtains input and negotiates with a broad variety of technical practitioners to deliver new and revised processes and tools that advance the capability of the function and its ability to deliver high quality drawings and specifications. 
• Makes decisions, plans and implements new and revised processes, work instructions, software and/or computing solutions that improves the technical quality, efficiency and/or effectiveness of the technical function. 
• Provides independent leadership of smaller business impact projects or ownership of complex systems or services 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.

To be successful, you will need the following:
 

• Technical Function Processes and Tools - Executes, improves, trains, coaches and/or manages the Technical processes and tools including standards and best practices that enables knowledge to be re-used and functional deliverables to be met in a quality and productive manner. 
   
• Builds networks - Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization. 
   
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. 
   
• Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. 
   
• Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances. 
   
• Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. 
   
• Optimizes work processes - Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement. 
   
• Resourcefulness - Securing and deploying resources effectively and efficiently. 
   
• Knowledge Management - Ensures perspectives, ideas, experiences and information are available in the right place and the right time using the required processes and tools to enable informed decisions. 
   
• Requirements Elicitation - Discovers and documents functional and non-functional requirements using the Business Analysis Toolkit (modeling the five aspects and creating use cases) to effectively communicate the business needs and solution characteristics for solution design. 
   
• Solution Assessment and Validation - Assesses the proposed solution using the requirements traceability through the life cycle of the requirements to determine if they deliver the desired business outcome. 
   
• Troubleshooting - Diagnoses and resolves the customer-identified issue by utilizing appropriate department standards to satisfy customer expectations. 
   
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization. 
   

Education, Licenses, Certifications: 

• College, university, or equivalent Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or appropriate STEM field is required. 
   
• Post-graduate (Master's) degree relevant to this discipline area may be required for select roles. 
   
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations. 
   

Experience: 

• Prior Senior or Lead Engineer equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline area is required with a demonstrated track record of technical problem solving and quality decision making.

Additional Responsibilities: 

This role will be Business Process Owner for Simulation Process and Data Management (SPDM) initiative working closely with SPDM BU champions to drive sustained adoption, measure the business values realization, define and institutionalize SPDM best practices.  

Candidate must be based in Columbus, IN.