Bachelor / Master Internship: Project Support
Developing a project management tool that aids in managing project relations and dependencies
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Location Eindhoven
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Organisation Unit Internships Eindhoven
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Fulltime Fulltime
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Education level Bachelor
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Contract type Internship contract
Job description
For our Project Management Team of 10 people, we are looking for an intern who will develop a system where project managers and engineers can extract/visualize information on timing, dependencies and relations between projects. This to improve for example:
- Impact analysis of changes request for a project and collateral damage to other depending projects;
- Visibility on different architectures and used control systems per projects to e.g. improve resource management and planning activities;
- Visibility and definition of baselines, development branches and merge plans .
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Conducting interviews with project managers, lead engineers and other internal stakeholders to formalize and complete user stories;
- Together with stakeholders, prioritize user stories and develop plan for which user stories can be implemented within scope of internship;
- Benchmark commercially available tools to propose/develop a modern, easy to use, user interface;
- Development of database structure capturing required information/data requested in user stories;
- Development of application using sample database data as Proof Of Concept;
- Documenting application and recommendation for follow-up internship if required to complete user stories.
Your profile
- Bachelor's or Master's study in Information and Communication Technology;
- Experience/Affinity with database application and user interfaces;
- Experience developing applications using Visual Studio;
- Strong communication skills in English and Dutch are required;
- Analytical skills and the ability to abstract / conceptualize.
Department
DAF Trucks N.V. in Eindhoven is part of the PACCAR Inc. which is one of the biggest global players in the heavy duty truck industry.
The known truck brands of PACCAR are Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF. Our engines and trucks are best in class products in the transportation world; always being driven by our design philosophy “environmentally friendly products with best cost-effectiveness and highest reliability for our customers”.As a global operating company we offer optimal opportunities to contribute to our success in a multicultural team.
Project Management team, part of Embedded Engineering Department is responsible for managing Embedded Architecture, Hardware and Software deliverables supporting vehicle and powertrain projects.
We offer
- A view behind the scenes at a large international corporation;You will get a lot of freedom and responsibility;
- We are open to your initiatives and depending on the assignment you see your results back in the workplace;
- An experienced coach and supervisor who can teach you a lot and is willing to help you with your assignment;
- After your graduation, you will have the opportunity to start your career at DAF;
- An internship wage of € 375,- (Bachelor) and € 450,- (Master) per month on full-time base;
- A travel allowance, if you don’t have a student travel product (provided by the Dutch government);
- A housing allowance, if you temporarily rent a room near DAF.
Each intern will have the opportunity to participate at the Student Event. During this event you will meet other interns and find out more about DAF/PACCAR!
Would you like to know more about the experiences of other students? Here you can read stories of our former interns.