Production Engineering Placement Year Clay Cross 2024

We’re the nation’s favourite heating brand, here to warm up people’s homes, lives, and futures.

First thing’s first, we’re flying the flag for a more responsible age of heating in the UK, looking after both people and the planet. The world needs more green technologies and we’re right in the thick of it, with our brand-new heat pumps and hybrid heating systems.

But it’s not all tools and tech. People are the real heart of our company. We connect with our customers to deliver genuinely helpful support, and we care about our employees and give them enriching careers. We work hard, we work together, and we work with a cause – delivering brilliant customer support and exceptional engineering.

And as an organisation of more than 1,800 employees, we also take our role in the communities we serve seriously. From giving away free heating systems for community spaces, to our charity, education, and volunteer work – we’re no strangers to rolling our sleeves up, getting stuck in, and helping out.

If that sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, we’d love to meet you.

Come and work #LikeABosch at Worcester Bosch.

Job description

Join us for your placement year in summer 2024! Our internships are designed to give you an insight into what it's like to work for a world-renowned brand with a culture of support and community.

Based at our plant in Clay Cross, this internship supports the development of the plant's manufacturing engineering facilities giving consideration to: international standards, productivity requirements and associate skill levels.

Expected start date on July 2024. Working hours are 39 hours a week; Mon – Thurs 07.00 – 16.00 with a 30 minute unpaid lunchbreak and Fri 07.00 - 12.00.

Your main responsibilities

• Planning effective manufacturing processes;
  • evaluating the best methods and equipment required for optimal production
  • preparing and maintaining work instructions
  • analysing and interpreting manufacturing data
  • supervising the installation, commissioning and release of processes and equipment to production.
• Supporting the production engineers with their tasks and responsibilities within the manufacturing area. Manufacturing areas that will be covered within these roles will focus on either the welding processes of sub-assemblies, or the final assembly of the appliances.
• Continually driving and supporting a quality culture throughout the manufacturing environment and ensuring that all new products and processes are introduced, on time, in an efficient and effective manner.
• Developing and optimising the manufacturing processes of the plant utilising Continuous Improvement and problem-solving strategies.
• The support of other general production engineering duties as necessary.

Qualifications

Please note that to be eligible for this role, you must be an undergraduate student seeking a placement year as part of your degree - if you do not meet these criteria please consider applying for other positions.

Our ideal candidate should

• Be studying an engineering degree – Mechanical, Electrical, Automotive
• Be competent with Microsoft Office software
• Have good communication skills
• Have an autonomous working mindset
• Have a problem solving mindset
• Have a team working attitude

The following skills and attributes would be a bonus but aren't essential to the role

• Full and valid driving license
• Knowledge on manufacturing/assembly processes such as; machining, assembly processes, testing, automation.
• Innovative mindset
• Experienced in utilising quality tools e.g. FMEA, SPC, capability studies
• Understanding of engineering change process
• Experienced in the application of Lean manufacturing techniques e.g. pull system, just-in-time, waste elimination

What we offer

This 1-year Internship comes with the following benefits:

• 20 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays
• Access to the Perkbox Benefits platform
• Discounts on products from across the Bosch Group
• Access to Bosch Social Club membership offering you and up to 5 friends and family discounts on excursions and events
• Volunteering days
• Policy to support growing families
• Health & wellbeing support including: over 200 trained mental health first aid champions, free of charge employee assistance programme
• And more!

Deadline for applications on Tuesday 02 January 2024 - please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time so we encourage candidates to submit their applications as soon as possible.

Please ensure you have a valid Right To Work in the UK status for the entirety of the placement year upon submitting an application.