The posting
Job Description
We are looking for a talented Production Technician III supporting our 1st Shift to join our team specializing in Manufacturing for our Cummins Drivetrain & Braking Systems Business Unit facility in Maxton, NC.
The basic function of the production technician is to utilize manufacturing work instructions to assemble purchased parts into finished Commercial Vehicle System products.
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:
- Champion a safe work environment by immediately stopping work when major hazards are identified, reporting incidents promptly, and helping ensure every team member goes home safely each day.
- Promote a culture of accountability and interdependence by looking out for teammates, addressing hazards within my control, and encouraging others to follow HSE standards and procedures.
- Support environmental stewardship by recognizing how daily activities impact the environment and taking actions to reduce waste, emissions, and other negative impacts.
- Deliver high-quality products by consistently following standard work, quality procedures, visual standards, and inspection requirements to ensure customer expectations are met.
- Reduce quality and cost risks by identifying non-conforming material, raising concerns quickly, and helping prevent defects before they reach customers.
- Drive operational excellence by operating equipment efficiently, meeting production targets, maintaining required cycle times, and ensuring products are manufactured to specification.
- Strengthen team capability by sharing knowledge, coaching less experienced team members, and serving as a resource to support overall team performance.
- Contribute to continuous improvement by collaborating with production, skilled trades, and support teams to improve safety, quality, processes, material flow, equipment reliability, and employee development.
Responsibilities
To Be Successful in This Role, I Will Need To:
- Build strong partnerships and collaborate effectively with teammates, skilled trades, leaders, and support functions to achieve shared production, quality, and safety goals.
- Communicate clearly and professionally with different audiences, ensuring expectations, issues, updates, and solutions are understood and acted upon quickly.
- Demonstrate courage and accountability by speaking up about safety concerns, quality issues, process gaps, or risks, even when conversations may be difficult.
- Make sound and timely decisions by assessing available information, weighing risks, and taking appropriate action to keep operations moving forward.
- Deliver consistent results by meeting production goals, maintaining quality standards, and staying focused under changing priorities and challenging conditions.
- Take ownership of commitments by following through on responsibilities, meeting deadlines, and holding myself accountable for performance and continuous improvement.
- Effectively manage complexity and solve problems by analyzing information, identifying root causes, and making data-driven decisions to improve processes and performance.
- Champion health and safety every day by proactively identifying hazards, reporting concerns, participating in corrective actions, and helping build an injury-free workplace culture.
- Develop and apply manufacturing knowledge to support process improvements, equipment effectiveness, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Value and leverage diverse perspectives by respecting different experiences, backgrounds, and ideas, creating a collaborative environment where everyone can contribute to success.
Education, Licenses, Certifications:
- High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.
- This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Experience:
- Requires significant relevant work experience or specialized skills obtained through education, training or on-the-job experience.
Qualifications
Additional Responsibilities:
Technicians have the responsibility and authority to:
- Understand what constitutes producing a quality product that meets customer expectations.
- Read, comprehend, and execute written instructions.
- Operate machinery according to set procedures – meeting productivity goals in a safe, quality, and environmentally sound, cost-effective manner.
- Be able to properly operate manufacturing equipment.
- Use precision measuring instruments such as calipers, dial indicators, and micrometers to determine adherence of product characteristics to prescribed specifications.
- Safely operate a fork truck, if assigned, and possess a valid company forklift license.
- Initiate action, up to and including stopping the line, to prevent the occurrence of any nonconformities relating to product, process, and quality systems.
- Identify and record any product, process, and quality system problems.
- Initiate, recommend, or provide solutions through designated channels.
- Verify the implementation of solutions.
- Control further processing, delivery, or installation of nonconforming product until the deficiency or unsatisfactory condition has been corrected as defined by applicable procedures and/or delegation of the area manufacturing manager or designee.
- Perform rework and repair operations on nonconforming material.
- Perform preventative maintenance to all equipment and, in some cases, notify the proper maintenance personnel of necessary repairs.
- Perform safety and housekeeping duties to ensure a safe working environment.
- Participate actively in the team to achieve team goals.
- Maintain flexible work culture with the ability to learn and effectively operate all equipment.
- Comply with all Cummins Drivetrain and Braking Systems written environmental (ISO 14001) and quality (TS16949) policies.
- Support development of a continual improvement, employee involvement culture.
- Set high expectations for themselves and the team.
- Hold themselves and team members accountable for superior results.
- Maintain best practice safety and housekeeping standards with continuous emphasis on 5S.
- Support development of the team to work with all levels of the organization.
- Support development of the team to track key performance data, identify variances, and determine root causes, implement corrective action, and documentation to meet or exceed goals.
- Flexible to work any shift and overtime to meet the customer requirements and other work assignments as required.
- Requires broad knowledge of operational procedures and tools obtained through extensive work experience and may require vocational or technical education.
- Works under limited supervision for routine situations.
- Provides assistance and training to lower-level employees.
- Some troubleshooting is required for repeat mechanical issues.
- All other job tasks as required by leadership.
Job Specific Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED is preferred but not required.
- Must have two (2) years of experience in mechanical assembly, fabrication, or electrical/electronic field.
- Must understand and be able to use basic math, fractions, basic algebra, decimals, and metrics.
- Must be able to read and understand work instructions.
- Must be flexible and be able to work in a team environment.
- Must be able to use precision measuring instruments such as micrometers.
Physical Demands:
- Ability to physically access all areas of the plant with reasonable accommodations and ability to communicate clearly with the management staff and other production technicians.
- During any regular shift, individuals may be required to physically: stand (5-6 hours); use both hands to grasp tools and parts, and push and pull (3-4 hours); use of head and neck in a static or turning motion (3-4 hours); and looking forward, side to side, and down (7-8 hours). Manual assembly also involves some amount of bending, reaching, lifting, and turning. Some departments within the business may require occasional or intermittent lifting of up to 35-40 lbs. without hoist assistance and greater than 45 lbs. with hoist
Base Rate: $18.00 - $25.00/hr
About Us
Cummins is an equal opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.
