Senior Workflow Automation Engineer (Manufacturing IT)

Senior Workflow Automation Engineer (Manufacturing IT)

• Full-time

Bosch in Malaysia is a part of the Bosch Group, a leading global supplier of technology and services. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to deliver innovations 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”. Bosch has been present in Malaysia since 1923, represented by Robert Bosch Sdn Bhd. In Malaysia, Bosch is active in four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology.

The company has three manufacturing sites and research and development offices in Penang, producing automotive electronics, power tools and steering systems, and now a fourth plant with a final testing centre for sensors and semiconductors.

PgP5 Plant is Bosch Group’s newest expansion in Malaysia, a semiconductor test site in Batu Kawan Penang. The construction has begun in May 2021 and the first series of production is set to commence in 2023. With the long-term forecasts for growth of semiconductor component quantities, coupled with the front-end production in Bosch’s Dresden facility in Germany, capacity expansion is required for the back-end production, which is the final testing phase of semiconductors and sensors. PgP5 will primarily focus on the final testing of components manufactured at Bosch Automotive Electronics’ fab in Dresden, Germany. The plant will also house R&D and training facilities.

Job Overview
We are responsible for the planning, installation, maintenance and improvement of the Manufacturing Information Technology, Digitalization, Data Warehouse, IT Security & Data Security & Privacy of our Semiconductor Testing facility in Penang (PgP5).

Job Responsibilities:

1. Being part of the team that manages the APF (Advance Productivity Family) of the plant. The APF is a suite of fully integrated software components developed to improve the design, analysis, and event-by-event operation of complex manufacturing facilities.
2. Being trained as an expert in APF and the Activity Manager tool.
3. Responsible for the APF Real Time Dispatching strategies.
4. Using the APF Formatter, writing dispatching rules to develop APF reports.
5. Collecting automation requirements and developing workflow automation frameworks that integrate multiple systems within a facility using the APF Activity Manager.
6. Working with our counterparts from both locally and internationally in the Bosch Semiconductor IPN on APF topics as the Activity Manager expert.
7. Designing and implementing modern fabrication control procedures.
8. Optimizing fabrication processes with a focus on process-oriented organization and efficiency.
9. Analyzing and estimating KPIs within interdisciplinary teams.

Personality: Motivated, strong in communication, cooperative in working with colleagues and external parties, assertive personality, ready to travel on occasional business trips.

Working Style: Independent, result- and quality-oriented and reliable.

Experience and Knowledge:

• Good knowledge in control/optimization of material flow or event-based distributed systems (e.g., Load Balancing, Grid Computing, Parallelization).
• Good programming skills in one high-level programming language like Java or another comparable language.
• Good knowledge in SQL, XML and JSON.
• Good knowledge in web services/soap technology.
• Very good understanding of complex IT architecture.
• Experience in working with big data.
• At least 5 years’ experience with a focus on information technologies.

Additional Skills:

• Enjoy working with people in interdisciplinary international teams.
• Good communication skills and immediate understanding of complex coherences.
• Enthusiasm for interdisciplinary thinking and interest in Leading Edge Semiconductor technology.

Languages: Good proficiency in English language.

Education: Bachelor Degree or Master Degree in Information Technology or Computer Engineering or any comparable studies on IT.