**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** General 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 or related fields.
- Master's degree is preferred.
- Bilingual (Spanish and Advanced English).
**Skills and Experience**:
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively in cross functional and multi-functional teams in a global environment.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Customer oriented.
- Preventive mindset.
- Results and future oriented.
- Active continuous improvement approach.
- Responsible to define, implement, maintain and improve the process required for product manufacturing, including but not limited to **PLC & Controls, robotics, **mechanical design and assembly analysis, and keep the process under control according to process parameters.
- Preferred knowledge in **testing system for production, Manufacturing execution system and Traceability.**:
- AOI Systems
- Automated systems
**Additional Information**
Bosch is constantly expanding its international presence, since for us cultural diversity represents one of our greatest strengths. We are continuously promoting the growth of our more than 17,000 associates, who develop their full potential in one of the highest quality companies in technology. We