Civil Engineering Graduation Internship: Work Preparation

• You are following an mbo, hbo, or wo education, for example Civil Engineering, Built Environment, Technical Business Administration, or a similar study;

• You have an affinity with project management, process improvement, and LEAN;

• You are analytically strong and can assess processes critically;

• You make contact easily with various stakeholders and know how to translate insights into practical solutions;

• You are proactive, independent, and available for a graduation internship of approximately 6 months (at least 4 days per week).

• An internship allowance of €700 per month based on 40 hours per week;

• Plenty of room for your own initiative and ideas;

• Intensive guidance during your graduation process;

• Time and space for your research and school assignments;

• A unique opportunity to make an impact on the daily practice of large construction projects;

• The best colleagues to learn the trade from and a pleasant working atmosphere.

Finally, you can put theory into practice: you are looking forward to it, and so are we! As a graduate student at Dura Vermeer Bouw en Vastgoed Utrecht, you will get the chance to work on a current issue within our home renovation department. How can we get more control over work preparation? And how do we ensure a predictable schedule in which teams collaborate optimally?

You will focus on improving the predictability and controllability of work preparation. In doing so, you will deal with, among other things:

• Analyzing the current work preparation processes;

• Investigating how LEAN methodologies can be applied more effectively;

• Evaluating the current daily starts and weeklies;

• Gathering needs and bottlenecks from work preparers, project managers, and site managers;

• Investigating how progress, actions, and dependencies can be made more transparent;

• Developing a dashboard or other form of visual control;

• Elaborating a concrete advice or implementation proposal for a predictable work preparation schedule;

• Assessing the feasibility and added value of your solution.

Learn more. Do more. More career. That is doing an internship at Dura Vermeer.

During this graduation internship, you will investigate how we can make our work preparation smarter, more efficient, and more predictable using LEAN methodologies, daily starts, weeklies, and visual dashboards. Not theoretical research, but an issue that has a direct impact on our projects and colleagues.

Good work preparation forms the basis of a successful project. Yet, we see that schedules sometimes come under pressure due to changing circumstances, dependencies between disciplines, or insufficient insight into progress. During your graduation internship, you will investigate how we can create more predictability within work preparation. You will look at existing processes, collaboration within project teams, and the use of LEAN principles such as daily starts, weeklies, and visual management. You will investigate what is needed to adjust course in a timely manner, make bottlenecks visible earlier, and monitor progress better. Ultimately, you will translate your findings into concrete advice or a practical solution that is directly applicable within our organization. To do this, you will engage in conversation with work preparers, project leaders, site managers, and other involved colleagues. You will map out the current way of working, analyze opportunities for improvement, and develop an approach with which project teams can gain more control over their work.

You will receive a lot of freedom to shape your research and to further refine the topic together with your supervisor.