What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Configuration Specialist position at Bosch-HomeComfort?
Company Description
At Bosch, we shape the future by inventing high-quality technologies and services that spark
enthusiasm and enrich people’s lives. Our areas of activity are every bit as diverse as our outstanding
Bosch teams around the world. Their creativity is the key to innovation through connected living,
mobility, or industry.
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• Reinvent yourself: At Bosch, you will evolve.
• Discover new directions: At Bosch, you will find your place.
• Balance your life: At Bosch, your job matches your lifestyle.
• Celebrate success: At Bosch, we celebrate you.
• Be yourself: At Bosch, we value values.
• Shape tomorrow: At Bosch, you change lives.
Job Description
How you will do it:
- Manage product selection tool data, both variable and static, for Commercial and Residential HVAC products.
- Participate in new product introduction process from inception to end of life.
- Gather, aggregate and store information from a variety of sources for a variety of purposes. Systems include, but are not limited to, product selection tools, MS Excel, SQL Server databases, SAP variant configuration data and engineering change data
- SQL data maintenance and VBA code modification
- Document procedures and work instructions to aid in the training and standardization of Product Configuration process and use of digital tools
- Continuously examine our processes and identify opportunities to improve and automate them with off-the-shelf tooling
- Interact with a variety of job functions including IT, product management, design engineering and manufacturing engineering.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- 5 years of experience in programming product selection experience.
- Experience using SQL, Excel and VBA/VSA to mine data from relational databases
- Strong data and product selection knowledge.
- Technical Writing ability to document work procedures to be shared across the Bosch organization
- Able to speak to technical and non-technical audiences, as well as absorb and use technical documentation
- Keen eye towards processes, and how to improve them
- Implementation in the discrete manufacturing industry
- Availability to work some weekends or evenings
Preferred
- HVAC product knowledge (split and packaged systems)
- SAP experience with Variant Configurator modeling, Sales and Distribution (SD) and Production Planning (PP) and BOM and Material Master module(s)
- Ability to move desktop solutions to more enterprise-grade databases and systems
- Familiarity with deployment of software products into production systems
- Product Lifecycle Management
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability / veterans
*Bosch adheres to Federal, State, and Local laws regarding drug-testing. Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a drug screen and background check. Candidates who have been offered the position must pass both screenings before their start date.