Process Optimization Intern

Job title: Process Optimization Intern
Recruiter: Mark Hietkamp
Vacancy ID: 4621

For our Grid Management & Supply team, we are looking for a fourth-year intern.

Are you looking for a challenging graduation internship in which you can directly apply your business administration knowledge to a current organizational issue? At Vitens, you will get the chance to independently conduct research into the organization and operation of our material committees. You will analyze processes, investigate improvement opportunities, and provide concrete advice that enables the organization to work more efficiently and effectively. Within this internship, you will receive plenty of room for your own initiative, work together with various departments, and contribute to optimizing processes that influence the reliable supply of drinking water. No two days are the same, and you contribute to something important: extracting, purifying, and supplying 1 billion liters of top-quality drinking water every single day. Every drop counts!

During this graduation internship, you will investigate how the material committees within Vitens function and what possibilities exist to further improve processes, collaboration, and decision-making. You will independently map out the current situation and translate your findings into a substantiated improvement advice.

Important tasks

• Analyzing the current way of working, decision-making, roles, and responsibilities within the material committees.
• Mapping information flows and the collaboration between involved departments, including Grid Management & Supply and Design & Construction.
• Investigating bottlenecks, waste, duplication of work, and unnecessary lead times within the process of material changes.
• Applying business administration research methods and Lean principles to identify improvement opportunities.
• Translating research results into concrete and future-proof improvement advice.

You will work closely with various stakeholders within the organization and get the opportunity to make a visible contribution to process improvement within a socially relevant organization.

As a graduation intern, you will strengthen the Grid Management & Supply team. This team consists of professionals with diverse expertise within the drinking water chain, including process owners, specialists, and project employees.

We are especially curious about who you are and what you can do. It is important that you are yourself and bring an analytical and curious attitude. We see this reflected in the investigation of processes and the development of improvement advice. Furthermore, we count on you:

• You are following a HBO (Higher Professional Education) program in Industrial Engineering & Management or a comparable study and are looking for a graduation internship.
• You have an interest in process optimization, organizational issues, and change management.
• You can analyze complex processes and map them out clearly.
• You ask critical questions and know how to collect information independently.
• You work in a structured manner and can report research results clearly.
• You actively seek collaboration with various stakeholders within the organization.
• You have command of the Dutch language, both spoken and written (B2 level).

As a Process Optimization Intern, you will be part of an enthusiastic team and will get the opportunity to gain practical experience. We will coordinate the number of hours and internship days together. In addition, we offer the following employment conditions, among others:

• An internship allowance of € 525.00 per month
• A travel allowance in accordance with the CAO Waterbedrijven (Water Companies Collective Labour Agreement)
• Participation in Intern Day and other activities within Vitens
• An educational internship with professional guidance and room for personal development

Want to collaborate on making our drinking water supply future-proof? Then we would love to receive your application. Questions about the procedure? Look here at the application procedure within Vitens or ask your questions to our recruiter Mark Hietkamp via Mark.Hietkamp@vitens.nl. Want to know more about the content of the position? Email team manager Lars Dohmen via Lars.dohmen@vitens.nl

As the largest drinking water company, our goal is to make every drop sustainable by 2030. Curious how we want to realize this? Then take a look at About Vitens | Vitens.

Vitens is important for the basic services in our society. Therefore, we always request a screening before we hire someone. Part of this screening is providing a Certificate of Conduct (VOG).

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