Mechanical Process and Automation Engineer

Company Description

Bosch was founded in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) and for more than 130 years has been distinguished by a unique corporate culture based on solid values that drive us to improve every day. Our products, present in a wide variety of fields, that contribute to improve the quality of life of millions of people.

Company Description

Bosch was founded in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) and for more than 130 years has been distinguished by a unique corporate culture based on solid values that drive us to improve every day. Our products, present in a wide variety of fields, that contribute to improve the quality of life of millions of people.

Job Description

• Responsible to implement, maintain, and improve manufacturing processes as well as to ensure technical availability of equipment in all shifts.
• Aim to achieve Value Stream KPI’s such as relative utilization, internal defect cost by continuously improving other supporting KPI’s such as FOR and technical downtime.
• New product introduction, equipment and process definition, acquisition, validation, and installation on production environment.
• Develop procedures and instructions for technical processes.
• Develop material to train process technicians.
• Develop maintenance plans for equipment focused on preventive, predictive and corrective approaches.

Production Support:

• Align all engineering efforts with the corresponding Value Stream main KPI’s.
• Develop procedures, instructions, and training material for TPM.
• Responsible to reach technical availability, cycle time, and defect cost targets and upper limits for the processes and equipment under his/her responsibility.
• Ensure manufacturing process compliance with engineering principles, customer requirements,
• Bosch standards, and process specifications.
• Train and instruct production and technical personnel.
• Provide support according to the VS shift model.
• New Product / New Processes:
• Get involved on the process to define, acquire, transfer, accept, validate, install, and release production processes and equipment according to Bosch standards.
• Fulfill APQP planning: EWAK runs, Pre-PV’s, PV, and SOP.
• Participate actively with MFE (manufacturing planning) on projects and new releases.
• Responsible to prepare and implement the technical aspects of ECRs, following Bosch standards.
• Participate with the corresponding international production network on the definition of the
• manufacturability of new products focused on topics such as process definition, product handling, cycle time, hardware design, among others.
• Process and equipment:
• Develop and implement TPM (total productive maintenance) instructions, schedule, and provide training to the corresponding TPM technicians.
• Develop SMED process for changeover standards.
• Define the corresponding machine spare and wear parts and register them in tool crib.
• Define, display, and control process parameters that are defined in official Bosch documents
• such as DMD’s, VVT’s, VAs, etc.
• Comply with the machine capability and MSA standards for the processes under his/her responsibility, considering Quality best practices.
• Develop and follow at every moment the continuous improvement approach (CIP).
• Define reaction plans and troubleshooting guides for the process technicians.
• Set standards and methods for process confirmation.
• Actively exchange lessons learned from others and to others (e.g., Value Streams and IPN plants).
• Use problem solving techniques to find root cause for every problem on the process/equipment.
• Aim to find, understand, and always attack the technical root cause (TRC) and managerial root cause (MRC).
• Use project management techniques to manage internal and external projects.
• Use Bosch Production System to establish production and CIP best practices.
• Participate on PFMEA and Control Plan for assigned processes (new and current).

Qualifications

EDUCATION

• Minimum required education level: bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, electronics, electromechanical, mechatronics, digital systems and communications engineering, or related fields.
• Master's degree is preferred.

BEHAVIOR

• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in cross functional and multifunctional teams in a global environment.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Customer oriented.
• Preventive mindset.
• Results and future oriented.
• Active continuous improvement approach.

SKILLS

• GD&T certificati