Systems Solutions Engineer (Location: Nairobi)

Functional Area: grow platform. A Bosch Company

Corporate success at Bosch is determined by innovation capability and an edge in know-how. Accept with us the challenge of new tasks by your willingness to permanently learn something new.

Robert Bosch East Africa is a growing business in the Bosch Group located in Nairobi, Kenya. We operate in the business divisions Mobility Aftermarket, Power Tools and Home Comfort.

We also have the grow platform, where we aim to secure the future of Bosch by ensuring its strong and meaningful development, as well as the financial independence. As Bosch incubator, we act as venture capitalist as well as a venture builder to foster internally developed digital business model innovations. We make machines speak! Find out how by becoming one of our team members in Bosch Digital Twin Industries. We are going global and we face huge business potential which needs to be realized now. Therefore, we need you as contributors, & fellow team members in a multi-cultural, innovative and ambitious environment. Together we will take human and machine intelligence to a next level of human-machine collaboration based on learning algorithms & real-world challenges with large industrial machinery.

At Bosch, we shape the future by inventing high-quality technologies and services that spark enthusiasm and enrich people’s lives. Our promise to our associates is rock-solid: we grow together, we enjoy our work, and we inspire each other.

Join in and feel the difference.

Responsibilities:

In the customer solution group (CSG) you will be responsible for the following tasks and topics in the region:

• You will build solution, construct and develop the approach for the entire Digital Twin - Integrated Asset Performance Management (IAPM) offering energy and industrial infrastructure.
• You will be responsible for planning assessment of assets at site, on-site technical discussions, holding conversation with different stakeholder & technical content creation for the proposal build.
• You will create high-level solution map, statement of work, scoping, assumptions, deliverables, and risks that can be translated into a Digital Twin - IAPM solution offering, beginning with on-site data collection and ending with the generation of actionable insights.
• You will enable the sales team with your expert insights during opportunity assessment and capture application or domain-specific requirements, possible solution deployment approaches & create the definition for customer success.
• Utilize your domain and technical expertise to understand client business objectives and translate them to Digital Twin - IAPM product features and capabilities & provide transfer learning to the Solution Ecosystem (SE) group.
• You will define and provide consistent feedback on bringing in the technology and product upgrades to the SE group.
• Participate in various technical forums (Internal and External), de-mystifying the capabilities of Digital Twin - IAPM which could potentially help us in positioning Bosch as a strong & reliable engineering partner.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to determine the right solution construct for a given business problem and come up with solution blueprint, which is reliable, safe, and scalable.
• Strengthen technical competency by technology evaluations, vendor evaluation and external collaboration, etc.
• Collaborate with the platform development team to customize and modify the digital twin solution architecture.

Skills, Knowledge and Competencies

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
•  You have at least 5 years of professional experience in various roles related to Product Development, Simulation Tools (CFD, MBD, FEA) and Reliability.
• You have a concrete understanding of Industrial IoT construct with Hands-on exposure to software packages like OPC-UA, Ansys, OSISoft PI Historian, Asset optimization packages, SAP PdMS (PAI) and other Digital Asset Performance. Practical knowledge on working with analog signals, DAQ, enterprise asset management packages & engineering drawings is highly desired.
• You have a pioneering spirit and enjoy working in an interdisciplinary team with a high degree of personal responsibility and creative freedom.
•  You have a high sense of responsibility, are reliable and a team player. You have an entrepreneurial mindset with a hands-on mentality.
• You have an analytical mindset combined with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach.
• Preferred background experience in Oil & Gas sectors or Metals & Mining.
• You have very good English skills, written and spoken. Any other will be an added advantage.

Dimensions:

• Meet management expectations on the role.
• Meet organization ( Bosch Digital Twin Industries) and customer expectations for high quality services.

Major Challenges:

• Working within diverse and complex market.
• Driving high performance from the organization.
• Customer and internal stakeholder inconsistencies.