Placement Student - Quality
Cummins Inc., Welton, Northamptonshire
Placement Student - Quality
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Cummins Inc., Welton, Northamptonshire
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 18 Oct | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: 4a53975d041b469cb8dd7f704437798e
Location ref: Welton, Northamptonshire
Full Job Description
- Working both independently and within a team to support key tasks and projects
- Using problem solving skills to improve processes and procedures
- Support Production Quality: Assist Engineers with production and inspection activities to ensure components and materials meet required standards.
- Monitor Material Performance: Observe material behaviour in processing plants and help make adjustments to maintain consistent quality.
- Identify Defects: Compare physical characteristics of components and products against technical specifications to spot issues early.
- Conduct Testing: Carry out basic electrical, reliability and packaging tests to support product validation.
- Maintain Accurate Records: Record test results, prepare simple technical reports and ensure documentation is complete and compliant.
- Support Measurement Processes: Participate in measurement uncertainty studies and contribute to accurate calibration outcomes.
- Assist Customers: Help customers interpret product specifications and understand measurement data.
- Maintain Test Equipment: Ensure measurement and test equipment is properly maintained and calibrated to required standards.
Working towards a degree in an appropriate Mechanical or Automotive Engineering discipline - Understanding of industrial or production engineering
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Apply Python, Power BI, and data analytics skills to support root cause investigations, automate quality reporting processes, and improve real-time visibility of customer quality performance across PSBU product programmes
- Explore and develop machine learning and AI-assisted tools to identify patterns in quality and engineering data, supporting early detection of product concerns and smarter corrective action prioritisation
- Contribute to Quality 4.0 initiatives - building dashboards, automation tools, and analytical models that modernise how the quality team manages and resolves customer and product issues
Direct job link
https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/placement-student-quality-127613116