Company Description

Robert Bosch Produktie N.V., located in Tienen, Belgium, is within the Bosch Group the lead plant and worldwide center of competence for development, engineering and manufacturing of wiper arms. Customers are both original equipment automotive car manufactures and aftermarket customers. As part of the Bosch strategy, we offer students the opportunity to participate in an internship at our location. Safety, Cost efficiency and quality are our main focus points, and to maintain the excellent position we are at, we strive for: continuous improvement of our equipment efficiency, proactive work on process understanding and root cause analysis, introduction of new process and process automatisation to reduce manufacturing cost and introduction of new products to improve customer satisfaction.
If you look for a position where you can take initiative, learn and bring added value in an industrial environment, you’re the student we are looking for. The internship will ideally last 3-6 months and can be either full-time or part-time (let us know your availability, and we’ll work something out). At present, you can work remotely.

Job Description

The Group of "Wiper Rubber Manufacturing" is responsible for delivering more than 80 million wiper rubbers per year to the Robert Bosch Worldwide wiper blade assembly locations.. To manufacture a wiper rubber, a wide range of production techniques and corresponding measurement systems is used, from rubber mixing, to extrusion, injection moulding, surface treatment, wet and powder coating to cutting.
Safety, Cost efficiency and quality are our main focus points, and to maintain the excellent position we are at, we strive for:

• Continuous improvement of our equipment efficiency
• Proactive work on process understanding and root cause analysis
• Introduction of new process and process automatisation to reduce manufacturing cost
• Introduction of new products to improve customer satisfaction
• We offers participation in several of above activities

The tasks include:

• Collaboration in shopfloor and engineering improvement projects
• Assistance in planning and carrying out experiments and capability analysis in running series production
• Analysis of data, elaboration of cause and effect relations, problem solving

Our internship offers you a great opportunity to experience a structured system of cost, quality and safety improvement in a cutting edge industrial environment.
If you look for a position where you can take initiative, learn and bring added value in an industrial environment, you’re the student we are looking for.

Qualifications

• Student in the areas of chemical engineering, mechanical engineering (Bachelor / Master)
• Completed basic studies, knowledge of statistics
• Good MS Office skills
• Good knowledge of English and optional Dutch
• Capable of communication, team-oriented and sense for responsibility
• Eager to learn and take initiative
• Hands on with good problem solving skills
• Intercultural awareness and understanding

The internship requires that you have the nationality of a EU-country or that you are taking part in the Erasmus- or Leonardo program.

Additional Information

The internship requires that you have the nationality of a EU-country or that you are taking part in the Erasmus program.
The personal experience of the interns is usually the following: The company employs 10-15 interns all year round from various countries. Therefore this is also a great opportunity to enhance your social and language skills. The interns live mostly in Tienen or in Leuven, known as a multicultural university city. You receive 800 € as expense reimbursement per month.