Intern in Production Engineering

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Career Programs

Job Sub Function:

Non-LDP Intern/Co-Op

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Career Program

All Job Posting Locations:

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Job Description:

Contributes to team within area of Production Engineering (MedTech) for duration of co-op.
Gains understanding of the enterprise and competency of necessary skills within Engineering.
Receives guidance, training, and mentoring from colleagues in planning and carrying out activities and assignments.

Position Overview
The intern will assist in the design, development, improvement and validation of manufacturing processes, tooling, and fixtures in order to meet daily production schedules, reduce defects and enhance productivity and product quality.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support global process improvements, production floor support and production transfer efforts through recurring meeting coordination/attendance.
• Work in cross-functional teams that span global operations.
• Use Lean and Six Sigma tools to analyze process trend data or communicate issues based upon data driven approach. Identify opportunities for process and yield improvement projects.
• Support commercial production of new products, product changes, and enhancements in coordination with the Operations, Product Development and Quality Assurance organizations.
• Support and enforce company goals and objectives, policies and procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Documentation Practices, FDA QSR and ISO regulations.
• Assist in the development and maintaining of process documentation including assembly procedures, test procedures, routers, travelers, BOMs, process flows, and process FMEAs.
• Help execute process validations including generation of plans, protocols and reports.
• Qualify and optimize processes and tooling via IQ/OQ/PQ, Gage R&R Studies, Process Capability Studies and Designs of Experiments.
• Participate in the investigation of failures and formulation and implementation of action plans for all internal corrective actions, audit findings.
• Maintain accurate documentation of concepts, designs, and processes while maintaining current knowledge of medical, technical, and biomedical developments as related to Abiomed products.
• Work with product development staff to ensure that products under development are designed for manufacture, test, and inspection as appropriate.