Internship: Innovation within IT&IM

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About us

Within Damen Global Support Group, the IT & Information Management (IT&IM) department drives digital innovation and value creation across the organization. The Innovators product focuses on accelerating business value by enabling automation and guided innovation, ensuring solutions are secure, reusable, and aligned with the One Damen digital strategy. Innovators enables teams across Damen to explore new technologies, run structured experiments and deliver measurable business value.

The role

You will work as part of Innovators, focusing on identifying, experimenting with, and validating emerging technologies (especially on automation). The assignment for this internship will be co-defined with the product owner. To give some insight into the possibilities, you mostly will work on multiple use cases in different areas of expertise within IT&IM, and contribute to delivering value to the organization as an Intern within the Innovators.

Key Accountabilities

• Identify and define innovation opportunities together with product owner
• Conduct experiments (PoCs/pilots) using AI and automation platforms
• Measure and validate business value
• Document findings and propose scale or stop decisions
• Contribute to standardized innovation practices
• Present outcomes to stakeholders

Skills & Experience

This assignment is intended for a Bachelor or Master student in Computer Science, Data Science, Business IT, or a similar study, with:

• Strong interest in digital automation;
• You have an analytical mindset;
• Excellent communication skills in English;
• Experience with different tools such as Python, low-code platforms or process automations;
• Fulltime or minimum of three days availability from September 2026 onwards;
• You are hands-on and eager to take on this project!

What we offer

As an intern at Damen, you will:

• An internship/ graduation fee and travel allowance will be paid for the duration of the assignment.
• A pleasant and dynamic, international work environment with informal atmosphere
• Mentoring at academic level will be available throughout the internship.

And furthermore:

• Focus on real experimentation and impact
• Direct contribution to enterprise innovation strategy
• Value-driven AI and automation use cases
• Opportunity to influence innovation at scale

Other

Are you excited to work on automated-driven innovation and shape digital transformation at Damen? Send your motivation letter and CV and tell us what technology excites you and what problem you would like to solve!

Due to housing issues we cannot accept international students that do not have accommodation in the Netherlands yet.

Recruiter:

Liselotte van Veenendaal

Email:

liselotte.van.veenendaal@damen.com

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