Job Details:
Job Description:
The Manufacturing, Product, and Quality Engineering (MPQ) team works at the intersection of manufacturing, product design, and quality control at Intel. Our main goal is to prepare new product designs for manufacturing and ensure all products meet Intel's strict quality standards for our customers. The Costa Rica Validation Lab Engineering (CRVLE) group supports various engineering teams in Costa Rica. By providing shared lab space, we help boost Intel Costa Rica's productivity and promote a One Intel approach, where all teams work together efficiently.
We are seeking knowledge and driven individuals to support the CRVLE Industrial Engineering Team as an Industrial Engineering Student. This role is responsible for game-plan governance and make the connection between short-range capacity planning and tactical execution, also will be responsible to ensures unified execution of laboratory objectives and resolution of roadblocks across all product lines, transforming production plans into executable schedules while optimizing resource utilization, reducing cycle time, and protecting delivery commitments under real-time constraints.
The primary responsibilities for this role will include, but are not limited to:
- Support CRVLE Tactical Planners to ensure smooth factory readiness from early builds through volume activities.
- Actively track VPOs movement and health, and promptly highlight abnormal behaviors (holds, tool mismatches, routing errors, yield risk signals, etc.) to vertical teams across MPQ CRVLE network.
- Responsible for supporting the creation of Lab daily schedule of execution using multiple planning systems, monitoring, and analyzing critical indicators to identify improvement opportunities.
- Provide hands-on execution monitoring for NPI builds, VPO and engineering activities, especially during high-risk milestones, lead lots, or first-of-kind flows.
- Drive and optimize end-to-end scheduling strategy: detailed execution plans, sequencing changeovers, and resource assignments with time-phased dependencies.
- Apply sequencing logic (FIFO, QTG, QPS, Critical Ratio) to maximize bottleneck performance; lead daily product syncs to align priorities.
- Track performance (PHIs, volume, UTZ, engineering activities) and trigger recovery actions to protect delivery commitments.
- Demonstrate high operational discipline - precision in execution, attention to detail, and zero tolerance for undocumented shortcuts.
- Continuously look for process gaps, unclear ownership, or recurring pain points, and feed learnings back to improve planning standards and readiness checklists.
- Embrace an active learning mindset: urgency with quality, data-driven problem solving, and willingness to engage across disciplines.
A successful candidate will have proven experience demonstrating the following skills and behavioral traits:
- Customer obsessed: understand the specific business unit needs, adapt and respond quickly to the changes and requirements.
- Collaboration and trusted partners with peers across the network, different business units, technology development, sites, and relevant business partners.
- Team building/leadership and collaborative skills.
- Synthesize complex information into clear messages and decisions.
- Understanding LEAN, Operational Excellence, Good Manufacturing Practices, continuous improvement, and problem-solving techniques.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum qualifications are required to be initially considered for this position.
- Pursuing Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, minimum 50 percent of the academical program completed. Other Engineering fields are not going to be considered.
- MS Office skills (Macros, algorithms, and/or mathematical functions; Pivot and Dynamic tables programing and Power BI)
- Intermediate to Advanced English proficiency (both verbal and written).
- Must have unrestricted - permanent right to work in Costa Rica.
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.
- Experience in tactical planning, product engineering, work orders, manufacturing planning.
Requirements listed would be obtained through a combination of industry relevant job experience, internship experiences and or schoolwork/classes/research.
Job Type:
Student / Intern
Shift:
Shift 1 (Costa Rica)
Primary Location:
Costa Rica, San Jose
Additional Locations:
Posting Statement:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
Position of Trust
N/A
Work Model for this Role
This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Intel is committed to Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) compliance and ethical hiring practices. We do not charge any fees during our hiring process. Candidates should never be required to pay recruitment fees, medical examination fees, or any other charges as a condition of employment. If you are asked to pay any fees during our hiring process, please report this immediately to your recruiter.
