Cummins : Employer profile

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Our people, our products, our impact - look closely and you’ll see Cummins everywhere you look. You’ll also see why the world’s best engineers, IT professionals, and scientists choose a career with Cummins. Our Board of Directors even includes an astronaut who went to space seven times and started a rocket company. It’s all because we treat people with respect and listen to new ideas - even ideas that seem out of this world!

See how far you can go.

Cummins is the world’s largest independent designer and manufacturer of diesel engines. Key markets are off-highway vehicles, industrial equipment and power generation. In addition, Cummins provides turbochargers for the automotive sector, along with filtration and acoustic systems, natural-gas engines, engine components electronic systems. We have over 45,000 employees around the world and a turn over in excess of $17 billion.

Join Cummins and become part of a truly global company with all the opportunities that brings. We are at the forefront of modern engine design and power technologies, facing increasing pressure from competitors and environmental legislation. Combine these factors with an ever-demanding customer base and you have a high energy, dynamic environment in which to work. You will constantly be facing new challenges, given new opportunities, be involved in Six Sigma projects and required to learn new skills. Cummins provides great opportunities for really talented people who are prepared to face them head on.

Innovation doesn’t come from machines, it comes from imaginative, creative and knowledgeable people who take resources and turn them into leading-edge products. Innovation comes from the types of graduates we’re looking to recruit. Just as our engines rely on a variety of components to work as one to create power and energy, Cummins relies on its employees.

Providing opportunities for Graduate and Placement Students is an essential part of our strategy to develop the skills base within our organisation and most sites offer such opportunities.

75 Graduate and 100 Placement positions are available (bursaries are offered to the most outstanding Placement students) in Design Engineering, Manufacturing/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Product Engineering, Project Management, Shop Operations, Manufacturing Support, Product Development, Systems, Quality, Purchasing, Supply Chain Management, IT, Finance, Sales & Marketing, HR.

Positions are available from summer 2012 in the following locations: Cumbernauld, Darlington, Daventry, Huddersfield, Peterborough, Ramsgate, Stamford, Stockton, Wellingborough.

12 month placements are specifically available for students taking a sandwich course. Make sure that you are energised for your final year and apply now!

Apply to our graduate programme if you are on target for a 2:1 or higher, and have undertaken a 4 year programme, including a year’s work experience in a manufacturing or commercial environment.

How to apply

Applications must be made online at www.careers.cummins.com

Early application is recommended, please check our website for details.