Job Description
The Lean Manufacturing Engineer Intern is a support role responsible for planning, facilitating, and stabilizing continuous improvements within a production sector; namely, a manufacturing Value Stream.
This role creates and sustains improvement processes, metrics, and tools, supporting key deliverables in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, cost reduction, growth, and innovation, and these deliverables include (but not limited to):
Will support cross-functional continuous improvement projects in all aspects of the Value Stream, focusing continually on production processes, work methods, waste reduction, and problem-solving methods through lean principles, tools, concepts, and methodologies.
- Ensure the manufacturing plant operates under Operational Excellence guidelines as defined by the Bosch Production System (BPS)
- Lead or participate in GEMBA walks, and drive CI culture across plant functional areas.
- Provide BPS project leadership and/or support to manufacturing, logistics, and support operations.
- Organize and support projects with cross-functional teams related to Value Stream Mapping/Design, Lean Line Design, and Process.
- Support the evaluation of BPS maturity and drive maturity improvement for various Value Stream areas.
- Support system design work (e.g., inventory calculations, lot size calculations, changeover requirements, customer pull patterns, material delivery loops)
- Establish standardized work and audit schedule for sustainability.
- Facilitate small group meetings to brainstorm, gather information or solidify action plans which support ongoing continuous improvement activities
- Embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds and practice consensus leadership when possible
- Represent operators by distilling and packaging their feedback on process changes to greater organization.
- Develop close working relationship with all operators and gain their trust.