Undergraduate Placement Year 2024 - Bosch Production Systems Planning / Training Intern

We’re the nation’s favourite heating brand, here to warm up people’s homes, lives, and futures.

First thing’s first, we’re flying the flag for a more responsible age of heating in the UK, looking after both people and the planet. The world needs more green technologies and we’re right in the thick of it, with our brand-new heat pumps and hybrid heating systems.

But it’s not all tools and tech. People are the real heart of our company. We connect with our customers to deliver genuinely helpful support, and we care about our employees and give them enriching careers. We work hard, we work together, and we work with a cause – delivering brilliant customer support and exceptional engineering.

And as an organisation of more than 1,800 employees, we also take our role in the communities we serve seriously. From giving away free heating systems for community spaces, to our charity, education, and volunteer work – we’re no strangers to rolling our sleeves up, getting stuck in, and helping out.

If that sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, we’d love to meet you.

Come and work #LikeABosch at Worcester Bosch.

Join us for your placement year in summer 2024! 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.

This pro-active role provides you with the opportunity to shape change here at Worcester Bosch with your involvement within the Bosch Production System/Planning department, where our core foundations are built around lean management and continuous improvement projects.

With lean operations and industry 4.0 being one of the next big topics being implemented globally, this unique opportunity allows you to work with lean management experts, working on and managing your own projects that not only improve the flow of production here at Clay Cross, but also hold the scalability to impact the entire global Bosch network. This includes controlling, monitoring, and improving the flow of logistics, production, and information across the site, as well as collaborating with all core departments such as health & safety, engineering and more to offer your support, guidance, and knowledge.

Do you want to shape the future of energy? Your involvement, contributions and ideas have the potential to shape the fundamental principles and structure at Bosch for years to come.

Throughout your placement, core responsibilities will include but aren’t limited to:

• Working closely with our logistics & manufacturing department to control, monitor and improve on-site processes such as kanban control, material flow, information flow and product databases.
• Involvement in continuous improvement projects throughout the year as well as being your project manager for your own ideas and improvement tasks.
• Aiding in implementing long-term strategic plans.
• General on-site control, organisation and maintenance of internal databases and production processes / systems.
• Working alongside our planning and training manager on multiple HR topics such as annualised hours, holiday management, training management, matrix grids and more.
• Data processing through platforms such as MS Excel and internal databases.
• Collaboration with other departments to meet their goals and assist on their active projects.
• Alignment of project teams to ensure tasks and improvement projects are completed on time.
• Running meetings to plan, check-in and receive updates on any active tasks you will be involved or responsible for.
• Much…much…more…the opportunities are endless!

Please note that to be eligible for this role, you must be an undergraduate student seeking a placement year as part of your degree - if you do not meet these criteria please consider applying for other positions.

Our ideal candidate should:

• Be studying either a business or engineering related degree with a passion to develop their lean management skills within a manufacturing setting.
• Be open-minded to experience a different sector of business management that will develop your skills that have been taught in theory.
• Be proficient in MS Office packages such as MS Excel, with the willingness to learn new software and understand new systems.
• Good organisational and planning skills to manage workload and prioritise tasks.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment, with the capacity to manage sudden changes and unexpected events.
• Be confident in their communication skills, both written and verbal at all levels of the organisation.
• Be confident to present and generate new ideas, whilst taking your own initiatives against problem-solving.

The following skills and attributes would be a bonus but aren't essential to the role:

• Experience of a team setting.
• Experience with problem-solving and managing workloads.
• Experience of managing or working within a project.
• Experience with communication skills.

Expected Start Date: June 2024

Working Hours: 39 hours a week; Monday – Thursday 07.00 - 16.00 and Fridays 07.00 - 12.00 with a 30 minute unpaid lunchbreak.

Travel: This role is located in Clay Cross, Chesterfield. Public transport is available from Chesterfield however current interns commute via car share / car from nearby towns/cities such as Nottingham, Derby, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Mansfield, and surrounding areas. Please ensure you sufficiently plan your relocation or planned commute prior to joining us.

This 1-year Internship 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
• Volunteering days
• Policy to support growing families
• Health & wellbeing support including: over 200 trained mental health first aid champions, free of charge employee assistance programme
• And more!

Deadline for Applications: Friday 24th November 2023 - please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time, so we encourage candidates to submit their applications as soon as possible.

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.