Internship - Data Mining

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Your Team

Welcome to the world of Automotive Infotainment and Audio. Where entertainment meets secure personalization with enhanced rider experience. With over 2 decades of market leadership in analog, digital & satellite radio, and unique system offerings in growing advanced audio market , our worldwide teams continue to raise the bar on product definition, project execution and customer satisfaction. With increasing complexity of our products, comes increasing complexity of organizational setup around our projects. Harmonization of processes and the related databases used to forecast, plan and track program portfolios across the different projects becomes key for business fulfillment. This internship aims on this harmonization- combining project forecast data with resource planning across the company, and mapping to mid & long term strategic plans. Next to that, it aims to support project management with critical planning methodologies using the data(bases).

Your Responsibilities and Tasks

Deliver a proposal and proof of concept for improved of project tooling for financial planning & tracking, together with critical path tracking. The objective of this internship is to study existing tooling and processes used by different organizations contributing to program execution. And research best in class solutions to find and propose clear opportunities for improvement and harmonization – of tools & applications, project data, financial parameters, reporting KPIs, configuration management, etc. The second phase of the internship shall involve implementation of a proof of concept implementation of the generated proposal that shall be evaluated and finally deployed as standard practice. Parallel to above, the internship involves close working together with program & project leadership to get deep insight into the schedule progress, using the available data from individual teams.

Scope of Work

• Research & Tooling:

Investigate project & financial related tooling & KPIs used for forecasting, planning and tracking of projects. Generate requirements for an optimal solution for above. Investigate available solutions & map the requirements above to these, and perform a SWOT

analysis on these Analyze with project management critical path for selected upcoming milestones

• Environment Design & Implementation:

Define a new system with tools, databases and related reporting for project & financial forecasting and tracking, covering data collection & mining as well as automation of analysis & reporting. Define (semi) automated setup for project schedule progress.

• Proof-of-Concept (PoC):

Develop and validate a PoC setup of harmonized project & financial analysis, realizing the targeted requirements for different organizations and users to easily exchange, analyze and report aligned KPIs, including project schedule progress

• Presentation & Knowledge Sharing:

Prepare and deliver a presentation(with demo) to the wider team summarizing key findings, methodology, PoC results, and recommendations. Design documentation and archiving of all source files for scripts and other environmental tooling worked upon, including user manual for others to use & build upon the generated setup.

What’s in it for you

• A great opportunity to develop your skills (technical, project management, soft skills, communication, etc.)

• Detailed insight into business, financial and project related processes in a world

• Gaining project management experience related to critical path/chain analysis

• Hardware development and the SAFe/Agile approach for software

• Gaining experience in a multinational and diverse environment

• Working on business critical assignments which contribute to NXP’s objectives

Your Profile

• Bachelor or Masters in Data Science/ Information Technology or related fields

• Detailed knowledge in database management, data mining, scripting

• Programming skills from one or more languages like

• Python, SQL, Java, C#/C++ is a must

• Basic understanding of project management concepts

• Optional familiarity of semiconductor design cycle

• Creative mindset with strong analytical foundation.

• Proactive attitude, with ability to work independently to cooperate with stakeholders

• across organizations for achieving the desired progress

• Working fluency in English

Duration

This is a full-time internship (40 hours per week) with a duration of 6 months or longer. The assignment is also suitable as a thesis/graduation project. Please note that in order to be considered for an internship, you need to be registered as a student during the entire period.

Creating Secure Connections and Infrastructure for a Smarter World

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) makes products and environments safer, more sustainable, and more secure with innovative connectivity and edge processing solutions for a smarter world. We are in the business of better. Not just better technologies, but better innovations to improve society. As the world leader in secure connectivity and processing solutions for embedded applications, NXP is solving the world’s most complex technology challenges to accelerate business innovation, enhance how we work, and advance how we live. If you are as excited about this opportunity as we are, we kindly invite you to apply. After a screening based on your profile you can be expected to have a video interview with our Talent Acquisition Consultant followed by business.

What Can You Expect?

Development opportunities: We believe that a key component to growing our business is to develop our people. To enable you to grow your career at NXP, we provide you with a mix of learning through on-the-job experiences, learning from industries bests, and learning through education to help you develop your core and professional skills.

Our offices: The Netherlands is home to our global headquarters (Eindhoven) along with two additional sites (Nijmegen, Delft) and includes a diverse team of over 2000 employees with 51 different nationalities focused on R&D, manufacturing, product development, business operations, legal and sales.

Hiring process: Applying only takes a minute! Fill in the online application and share your CV with us. After a positive screening based on your CV you will have an initial video conversation with our Talent Acquisition Consultant followed by several business interviews. Here are some useful tips to help you prepare. 

And more: Life at NXP is more than work alone. Join one of the many social activities that are organized by and for employees in the Netherlands, such as our Christmas parties and International Walking Day. We have a YOUNG community that organizes a mix of social and professional events for our young professionals and an active Women in NXP. We also take time to give back to our communities by engaging young girls to learn about Technology during Girls Day or participating in several volunteering activities.
 

What’s Next?

If you’re excited about this opportunity, we kindly invite you to apply

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