World power

An unquenchable thirst for technical innovation among the world’s major vehicle manufacturers ensures that the automotive sector continues to offer plenty of opportunities for experienced engineers and new graduates alike.

Many of those career openings will come from global businesses with a presence in the UK. Cummins, a major US-based supplier of engines and related power technologies to customers around the world, is a prime example of this trend.

The company is currently recruiting at its turbocharger operation in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, home to its global engineering centre for turbo technology, as well as its UK turbocharger manufacturing site. Cummins also has UK technical centres in Darlington, Stamford, Daventry and Kent.

Doug Cartwright, leader of technical functional excellence at Cummins Turbo Technologies, said the division is enjoying robust growth.

’Turbochargers are seen as an enabling device for meeting future emissions and fuel consumption regulations, allowing engines to be downsized,’ he explained.

Cummins is looking for engineers at all levels to work in the engineering operation at Huddersfield. Cartwright said people with two or three years’ experience through to mid-career stage are needed to fill a variety of roles. These range across design and development, electronics, controls, mechatronics and service engineering. Project-management experience is also increasingly sought after by Cummins as that element of its business is expanding.