Program/Engineering Trainee/Intern

Your mission, roles and responsibilities

Main purpose of the role

• The incumbent supports the Program Manufacturing Leader, Chief Engineer, Program Core Team and plant teams with analysis, documentation, coordination and follow-up across product industrialisation, production system development and launch activities.
• Build manufacturing program capability while providing reliable technical and administrative support that helps the team deliver safe, feasible, cost-effective and launch-ready production processes.

Essential responsibilities and duties:

 Program coordination and team support

• Support the tracking of manufacturing work-package tasks, milestones, risks, actions and deliverables.
• Prepare meeting inputs, update action logs and follow up agreed actions with relevant owners.
• Assist with information flow between the Program Manager, Program Manufacturing Leader, Industrial Program Leader, plant teams, suppliers and other functional leaders.
• Participate in Program Core Team and manufacturing reviews, capture decisions and maintain accurate records.
• Escalate delays, technical concerns or missing information to the responsible engineer or leader.

Product manufacturability and process definition

• Assist with the preparation and update of the Initial Process Concept, Process Definition and supporting manufacturing documentation.
• Contribute to concurrent engineering activities with Product Development and Quality teams to support design for manufacturing.
• Help document process or product changes and maintain change records under the direction of the responsible engineer.
• Perform basic technical analysis, time studies and data checks using approved methods and templates.

Production System Development

• Assist with Preliminary Manufacturing Footprint Analysis and the preparation of facility planning inputs.
• Participate in Equipment Design Workshops, Cardboard Workshops and other standard production line definition activities.
• Collect technical and cost information required for Capital Expenditure Requests and product costing.
• Maintain capacity study inputs, equipment lists, vendor timing plans, key dates and open-point registers.
• Track manufacturing assumptions such as work content, material consumption, cycle time, scrap, rework and launch costs.

Production launch support

• Support plant launch-readiness activities, trial preparation and production ramp-up.
• Assist with equipment, tooling and gauge pre-acceptance activities and ensure observations are recorded and followed up.
• Provide practical support during process qualification, Production Part Approval Process activities and production trials, including PT, MPT and EMPT where applicable.
• Collect trial results, organize evidence and assist in preparing concise status reports.

Targets, reporting and continuous improvement

• Assist in maintaining dashboards and reporting for manufacturing objectives such as capital expenditure, direct labour or work content, cycle time, changeover time, scrap, rework, material cost and launch cost.
• Support the consolidation and quality check of manufacturing work-package deliverables and mandatory program deliverables.
• Participate in Industrial Design Workshops and improvement activities, contributing observations and structured problem-solving support.
• Identify opportunities to standardise templates, improve data quality and simplify routine reporting.

Your profile and competencies to succeed

• BTech, BEng, BSc Eng or equivalent qualification in Mechanical, Industrial, Mechatronics, Manufacturing or a related engineering discipline.
• Recent graduate or candidate with up to two years of relevant internship, vacation work or entry-level experience. Automotive or manufacturing exposure is advantageous but not essential.
• Basic understanding of manufacturing processes, engineering drawings, problem solving and quality principles.
• Interest in production systems, industrialisation, equipment, tooling, process validation and program launch.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Experience with data analysis or project-tracking tools is advantageous.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Willingness to work in plant environments and travel to suppliers or other sites when required.