Undergraduate Placement Year 2025 - Production Engineering Intern
* Full-time
* Legal Entity: Bosch Thermotechnology Ltd.
We’re the nation’s favourite heating brand, here to warm up people’s homes, lives, and futures.
Join us for your placement year in summer 2025! 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.
An internship with Worcester Bosch will allow you to develop your skill in problem solving, critical thinking and project management while giving you the freedom to lead improvement projects, be creative in your solutions and learn about new engineering disciplines.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
* Improving and maintaining the day-to-day operation of the Clay Cross Manufacturing plant within the Weld and Press areas.
* Assist in Weld and Press projects in the manufacturing site.
* Participating in and leading Continuous Improvement Projects.
* Supporting the launch of new products into the plant and changes to existing products.
* Ensuring that we meet internal and external legislation for the manufacturing process.
* Upkeep and creation of SOPs.
* A good balance of office work and being hands on in a shop floor environment.
* Problem solving on live issues on manufacturing processes to keep production going.
Our ideal candidate must have:
* Undergraduate student (studying an Engineering focused degree) with a desire to complete a 13-month work placement as part of degree studies.
* Organisational and planning skills with the ability to prioritise workload.
* Adaptable to changing working environments.
* Confident to challenge and create new ideas.
* Capable of exercising initiative individually and in a team.
* High attention to detail.
* Can communicate confidently with people at all levels of seniority, both written and verbal.
* IT literate and confident in using MS Office packages as well as learning Bosch and industry specialist systems.
Our ideal candidate should have:
* Full and valid Driving License.
* Knowledge of manufacturing processes including welding, assembly, testing and automation.
* Knowledge of quality tools e.g. FMEA, SPC, Capability studies.
* Understanding of Lean manufacturing techniques e.g. Pull system, Just-in-time, waste elimination.
Right To Work: please ensure you have a valid Right To Work in the UK status for the entirety of the placement year upon submitting an application.
Expected Start Date: 30.06.2025
Please note that this date is advisory and can be flexible within reason.
Contract Duration: 1 year
Working Hours: 39 hours per week – standard working pattern of 07:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break and 07:00 – 12:00 Friday.
Working with us 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.
* Enhanced pension contributions.
* Access to Bosch Social Club membership offering you and up to 5 friends and family discounts on excursions and events.
* Policy to support growing families.
* Health & wellbeing support including: over 200 trained mental health first aid champions, free of charge employee assistance programme.
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