Purchasing Placements
by Cummins
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Purchasing Placements
Cummins are now recruiting for our 2020 intake of 12 month placements in the UK, whichprovide a meaningful opportunity for university students to accomplish real-world projects in a professional environment.
If successful on the programme you may be given the opportunity to work part-time during your final year of study and/or be offered the opportunity to return as a graduate.
.If successful on the programme you may be given the opportunity to work part-time during your final year of study and/or be offered the opportunity to return as a graduate.
Working as part of the International Purchasing Office for Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) region, based in the Cummins Midrange diesel engine manufacturing facility at Darlington, North East England. The EMEA purchasing office is primarily responsible for the management of suppliers in this region supplying products to our UK and overseas locations and provides an exciting opportunity to sample a purchasing career in a dynamic global business environment.
Key Responsibilities
The placement is a one-year structured role, key elements include:
- Key project work in support of departmental objectives
- Detailed involvement in Functional Excellence – opportunity to work with other Business Units to help share common processes, tools and resources to better achieve business goals
- Working with a group of suppliers – supporting cost reduction, capacity planning, delivery/quality performance, risk mitigation
- Data analysis in support of Low Cost Country sourcing/cost reduction opportunities
- Engagement across a number of teams, gaining commodity experience
- Close integration with Supplier Quality
Qualifications
Skills and Experience
- Working towards a degree – preferably Engineering/Business related although not limited to these subjects
- Positive attitude, strong personal motivation
- Communication skills
- A Levels (or equivalent)
- Team work
- IT Skills/programme knowledge
Training provided
- Presence of a mentor as a guide through the placement year
- Tools and skills training specific to the role
- Engine appreciation course
- Presentation and communication skills
- Practices and procedures
About Cummins
Cummins are global leaders in the clean engine, power generation, turbocharging and emissions solutions markets.
With manufacturing plants in 14 countries, 62,000 employees, turnover of $22 billion in 2018, you would be joining an organisation that offers flexible career paths and opportunities on a global basis.
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 and electronic systems. Cummins engine installations vary from the world’s highest altitude rail vehicles in the mountains of Tibet to some of the biggest mine trucks around the world.
Today, innovation is just as critical to our success as it was in the early days of our Company. With our mature market emissions near zero, our focus now is on improving product efficiency and understanding our customers’ needs better than anyone else through the development of strong partnerships.
What makes Cummins different is the way in which we take the time to understand our customers and then exceed their expectations by always being the first to market with the best products. The other advantage Cummins has over the competition is that we produce and supply superior integrated power systems, making us a one-stop shop for all of our customers’ needs.
Understanding our customers’ needs before they do and applying the creative ingenuity to make us better, faster, first, is the key to our future success in an increasingly competitive environment.
With "Innovation You Can Depend On" Cummins will see the future first and beat our competition to it.
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