Assignment type: Graduation (Bachelor students) / Internship (Master students)
Start date: February 2023
Assignment duration: 6 months
Location: Veghel
Educational Level: Bachelor / Master
Desired study: Mechanical Engineering
Language: Dutch / English
Description of the assignment
Sustainability becomes a more important topic for (new) customers of Vanderlande. Already in a sales phase, customers are requesting Vanderlande to give more insights about the carbon footprint of a complete project (lifecycle).
Vanderlande is further developing skills and tooling to provide adequate answers to these type of questions. However, not everything is available in detail yet: a lot of work is still to be done. Therefore, a more professional and quantified answer to customer questions on carbon footprint is required.
Description of the department
You will be part of the Sales Support Office. This team consists of several experts who can guide you on both the content and which processes and methods to follow. The supervisor will ensure that you also gets points of contacts from other departments.
The Sales Support Office is supporting the worldwide sales engineering teams within Business Unit Warehouse Solutions. We are supporting them on different topics by providing advise, doing calculations and providing supporting documents. The Sales Support Office is primarily supporting sales engineering teams and secondary executing developments to improve on tooling, templates and processes together with a lot of other departments.
Responsibilities
Collect all the feasibility studies on life cycle calculations performed so far and use this as input to create/evolute a tool that sales engineering can use to calculate the carbon footprint of a complete project. Ensure that the different calculation steps are validated by both internal and external stakeholders. Finally, come up with a proposition of a method how the tool should be used and maintained.
What is the desired outcome?
A clear guideline which parameters should be taken into account for this type of calculations. A formal process with results where multiple stakeholders have validated the calculation steps and the results.
Skills
- Interests for doing calculations and building tools
- Intrinsically motivated to work on sustainability topics
- Experience with Visual Basic, VBA or Python
- Background in Engineering
Contact
Do you recognize yourself in this challenging profile? Are you looking for an internship in an organization that has been elected as “Best Employer” for years in a row? Please fill out the application form and upload your resume and cover letter. For more information, contact us by e-mail: internship@vanderlande.com or contact Stef Alferink (Campus Recruiter) by phone: +31 (0)413 – 75 50 87.