AI Manufacturing Excellence Intern

BD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 22,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

BD in Singapore invites students to join a six-month internship focused on AI solution development for manufacturing excellence. You will design and implement AI assistants using enterprise platforms, ensuring data governance and traceability, with emphasis on safe outputs and citations.

You will also analyze productivity, identify gaps, build prompt libraries, and run pilots with plant engineers, gaining hands-on experience in AI maturity, change adoption and governance.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Data Science, CS, IT or related field.
• Available for a full-time six-month internship.
• Practical exposure to Python or Power Platform and basic SQL.
• Interest in AI, manufacturing, operational excellence and business improvement.
• Willingness to travel to manufacturing sites at Tuas Avenue 2; primary location Jurong East.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop an AI assistant using an approved enterprise platform.
• Build solution on approved data layers with authorized data sources.
• Develop prompts, workflows and retrieval logic with traceable sources.
• Create safeguards and citations for quantitative outputs.
• Develop and maintain a structured test set for plant questions.
• Analyze productivity and cost measures to identify improvement areas.
• Connect losses to cost drivers like labor hours, scrap, downtime, energy use.
• Develop a recommendation capability pulling from past improvement cases.
• Present recommendations with evidence, references and limitations.
• Create a reusable prompt library and organize prompts by user need.
• Document assumptions, data sources, inputs, outputs and limitations.
• Conduct AI maturity assessments and run pilot sessions and training.
• Collect feedback and prioritize improvements, produce guides and governance material.

Skills

Python

Power Platform

SQL

AI concepts

Education

Engineering / CS / IT degree (pursuing)

Job description

We are the people who give possibilities purpose

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

Job Description

AI solution development

• Design and develop an AI assistant using an approved enterprise platform such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry or an equivalent governed platform.

• Build the solution only on approved and certified data layers. Do not connect directly to raw transactional systems unless specifically authorized by the relevant data owner.

• Develop prompts, workflows and retrieval logic that answer manufacturing productivity questions with traceable sources.

• Create safeguards that reduce unsupported responses, protect confidential information and require citations for quantitative outputs.

• Develop and maintain a structured test set covering common plant questions, edge cases, access restrictions and expected responses.

Opportunity identification and recommendation

• Analyze certified productivity and cost measures to highlight performance gaps and potential improvement areas by plant, process, asset or loss category.

• Connect operational losses to relevant cost drivers, including labor hours per unit, scrap, rework, downtime, changeover, energy use and material yield.

• Develop a recommendation capability that retrieves similar A3, DMAIC, Kaizen, Yokoten and Shingijutsu cases based on problem type, asset, process or waste category.

• Present recommendations with supporting evidence, source references, estimated value where approved, and clearly stated limitations.

Prompt library and knowledge management

• Create a reusable prompt library for productivity analysis, gap identification, root-cause exploration, best-practice retrieval and improvement-project preparation.
• Organize prompts by user need and manufacturing-excellence workflow so that plant teams can use them consistently.
• Document assumptions, approved data sources, expected inputs, output format and known limitations for each prompt or agent feature.

Plant capability building and adoption

• Conduct an AI maturity and readiness assessment for participating plants, covering data availability, tools, skills and adoption barriers.

• Run pilot sessions, user testing, office hours and short training sessions for plant engineers and Continuous Improvement leads.

• Collect user feedback and usage evidence, then prioritize improvements based on business value, usability and adoption.

• Create user guides, quick-reference materials, FAQs, governance guidance and a structured handover package for the designated business owner.

• Participate in relevant tier meetings and CI reviews to ensure the solution supports existing ways of working rather than creating a parallel process.

Candidate Profile

Required

• Currently pursuing a degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Analytics or a related field.
• Available for a full-time six-month internship.
• Practical exposure to Python or Power Platform and basic SQL.
• Interest in AI, manufacturing, operational excellence and business improvement.
• Willingness to travel to manufacturing sites at Tuas Avenue 2 when required, Primary work location at Jurong east

Preferred

• Exposure to Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry or a comparable enterprise agent platform.
• Understanding of RAG and common failure modes in generative AI solutions.
• Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen or manufacturing project experience.
• Experience facilitating user testing, training or change adoption.
• Experience with Power BI, SharePoint, Teams or other Microsoft 365 tools.

Why Join Us?

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.

We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.

Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Primary Work Location

SGP The Strategy