Internship Wiper Blade Development - Jet wiper Aero EDA-WS/EGA1

Company Description

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services with roughly 370,000 associates, represented in roughly 150 countries.

The Bosch Group’s products and services are designed to fascinate, and to improve the quality of life by providing solutions which are both innovative and beneficial. In this way, the company offers technology worldwide that is “Invented for life.”

The largest Bosch plant in Belgium is the wiper arms and wiper blades factory Robert Bosch Production N.V. in Tienen. The facility, located 30 km east from Brussels, is the Bosch knowledge and development center for wiper blade processes and products: rubber processing (compounding, coating, injection molding and extrusion), painting technology, and assembly technologies for different types of wiper blades.

The Group of "Platform and variant developmen aftermarket" is responsible for the development of new wiper blade technologies, new packaging for wiper blades, adapting existing programs to the market needs (new connections)

and introducing new wiper blade innovations into the aftermarket. As lead development for aftermarket worldwide we are working in close cooperation with the development departments in the plants in Serbia and China.

Cost, quality and timing are the KPI’s we need to achieve in our projects.

Job Description

You will support in the jet wiper aero project the team to set up a root cause analysis for "overspray". Overspray means that water droplets are coming loose from the wiper blade during driving and splash on the windscreen.

This is disturbing for the driver if these droplets appear in the vision area.

You will collect data from tests that are already done and set up a structured root cause analysis by use of a fishbone diagram or other problem solving method.

You will coordinate new sample making and set up and participate in tests.

For this you will also need to work together with other departments like the sample shop, test department and with the design team.

If needed you get in contact with external companies to get more knowledge in the behaviour of the water flow.

Qualifications

Student in the areas of engineering (Bachelor / Master)

Preferable you have knowledge of fluidomechanics and/or aerodynamics.

Good MS Office skills

Good knowledge of English (written and spoken).

Good communication skills, team-oriented and sense for responsibility

Eager to learn, take initiative and work independently.

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.

The duration of the internship will be 6 months.

The internship need to start in november 2021.

Additional Information

You will gain your first professional experience within the framework of an internship in the fields of a production department with a high degree of independent work.