Quality Engineering Co-op

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Category: Quality Engineering

Description

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Your tasks

The Quality Engineer Co-op 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. 

Supporting Job Elements:

Assist in continuous improvement projects

Day to day support activities but not limited to inspection, sorting, fixture design, assembly

Assist in measurement system analysis on various gauges

Review and analyze technical data, drawings, and work instructions to identify and resolve quality issues

Assist with valve and/or test stand troubleshooting

Assist Quality Engineers with reviews of performance data, in evaluation and validation of supplier change requests along with driving improvements in suppliers delivered quality for both new product and existing products

Review returned material and verifies customer complaints through root cause analysis

Assist with test data entry and collection, and statistical analysis

Create and modify existing systems that track our metrics

Create, improve on documentation such as control plans, FMEAs, WI, and process flow

Participate in team meetings with Quality Engineers, supporting various tasks

Support implementation of continuous improvement activities in production environment

Assist in closing open finding from internal/customer audits

Perform other essential and related peripheral duties as may be assigned

Your profile

Current student enrolled in Engineering program

Ability to work independently as well as in a team and to lead small project group.

Proficient in Excel, Outlook, Word, Visio, Power Point

Strong interpersonal and problem solving skills.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Company

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Bosch

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 360,000 associates worldwide (as per April 1, 2015). The company generated sales of 49 billion euros in 2014.* Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 440 subsidiary and regional companies in some 60 countries. Including its sales and service partners, Bosch is represented in roughly 150 countries. This worldwide development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foundation for further growth. In 2014, Bosch applied for some 4,600 patents worldwide. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to create solutions for a connected life. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life.” 

The company was set up in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) as “Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering.” The special ownership structure of Robert Bosch GmbH guarantees the entrepreneurial freedom of the Bosch Group, making it possible for the company to plan over the long term and to undertake significant up-front investments in the safeguarding of its future. Ninety-two percent of the share capital of Robert Bosch GmbH is held by Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, a charitable foundation. The majority of voting rights are held by Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG, an industrial trust. The entrepreneurial ownership functions are carried out by the trust. The remaining shares are held by the Bosch family and by Robert Bosch GmbH.