Quality Improvement Engineer at Cummins in Cookeville, Tennessee

Job Description:

Our culture believes in POWERING YOUR POTENTIAL. We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place and work with today’s most innovative thinkers to solve the world’s toughest problems.

We believe in flexibility for you to explore your passions while making an impact through meaningful work within our inclusive workforce. That’s what #LifeAtCummins is all about.

We are looking for a talented Quality Improvement Engineer to join our team specializing in Quality for our Components Business Segment/Cummins Filtration in Cookeville, TN.

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

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


• Global perspective - Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.


• Persuades - Using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others.


• Quality Leadership (Cummins Operating System) - Demonstrates knowledge of the Cummins Operating System, quality management systems by applying the ten practices to assess business segment and functional performance, set strategy aligned with business needs and create consistency of purpose for continuously improving products, processes, services; enables data driven decision making and removes barriers to enable individuals to have line of sight to the customer; uses metrics to drive continuous improvement.


• Schedule Management - Manages the project schedule using the recommended project management tools and processes to drive completion within the agreed timeline.

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

• Entry level experience.


• Degree, Industrial Engineer related to Quality systems. Must possess at least three (3) years of professional experience.


• AITF Certificate Training


• Six Sigma


• LPA Process- Layer Process all


• Continuous Improvement


• CQMS- or the understanding of quality management system.


• Excel and Power BI

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary rate commensurate with experience. Additional benefits vary between locations and include options such as our 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Cash Balance Pension Plan, Medical/Dental/Life Insurance, Health Savings Account, Domestic Partners Coverage and a full complement of personal and professional benefits.

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 right to work using E-Verify. Cummins 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.