NPI Coordinator at Cummins in Santa Clara, California

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 NPI Coordinator to join our team specializing in General Management for our New Power Business Segment/New Power Business Unit in Santa Clara, CA.

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

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


• Plans and aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.


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


• Resourcefulness - Securing and deploying resources effectively and efficiently.


• Manages conflict - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.


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


• Scope Management - Manages a list of project deliverables (scope) using the recommended project management tools and processes to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully.


• Project Issue and Risk Management - Manages the process to identify, assess and prioritize issues and risks using recommended tools and processes to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of negative events or to maximize the realization of positive events.

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

• Requires significant relevant work experience or specialized skills obtained through training or on-the-job experience.


• Utilizes tools such as: Arena,  Ariba, Maximo, Excel tools for powertrain component part types, purchases, inventory and managing parts for upcoming  integration builds.


• Materials planner in areas of:  part availability on quantities needed for Fuel Cell Module builds and transfer of parts for powertrain integration.


• Owns part creation, part tracking, quantities in Maximo ERP system and provides weekly reporting on part components availability and reporting weekly status outlook to Project Managers who have ownership of the Fuel Cell integration responsibility. 


• Analyzes Engineering Bills of Material established in Arena Product Life Management (PLM) system and applies to excel build status outlook reports.


• Refines excel models based on Engineering's directive in part modifications, rework or scrap and what impacts to the component availability outlook.


• Drives Fuel Cell BOMs breakdown to component levels and provides holistic determination when a module has 100% components receivable for scheduling of builds.


• Provides processes improvement feedback to the Fuel Cell project team on efficiency gaps in the component releases, purchasing and integration stages.

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.

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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.