Cost engineering internship: Process planning, prioritization, and stakeholder reporting

Introduction

Cost Engineering (CE) is a global team of specialists in technology manufacturing processes and costs, mainly based in Veldhoven under Strategic Sourcing & Procurement. Their mission is to provide accurate product cost estimates worldwide and improve negotiations by validating supplier manufacturing processes and costs during workshops. CE also supports early design efforts with its manufacturing knowledge and develops cost estimation expertise across the company. The team focuses on three areas: Optics, Electronics, and Mechanics. Due to increased focus on cost-effective designs and cost of goods, CE is seeing a rise in support requests.

Your assignment

With the help of experienced cost engineers and architects, you will learn about the main services and deliverables of cost engineering for our stakeholders like supplier account leaders and development teams. This assignment involves improving our current planning, prioritization, and escalation processes, as well as standardizing reporting and analysis. You'll also track progress against agreed plans. By surveying our stakeholders, you'll gather feedback and lessons learned.

For this assignment, some of the tasks will include:

• Get to know the current CE planning, prioritization, and escalation processes, as well as stakeholder reporting.
• Improve efficiency and maximize impact results by providing advice and proposals.
• Use surveys to gather feedback and lessons learned to ensure stakeholder satisfaction.
• Document your work for knowledge transfer and training.

Your profile

To be a match for this internship, you:

• Are a bachelor student in Industrial Engineering or a related field like Logistics and Production Planning.
• Are able to analyze and visualize processes and data.
• Are independent thinker and proactive.
• Are open-minded and quick learner.
• Have good communication skills in English, both verbal and written.

This is an apprentice / graduation internship for 4-5 days a week with a duration of 5 to 8 months.

Other requirements you need to meet:

• You are enrolled at an educational institute for the entire duration of the internship; 

• You need to be located in the Netherlands to be able to perform your internship. In case you ‘re currently living/studying outside of the Netherlands, your CV/motivation letter includes the willingness to relocate. 

• If you are a non-EU citizen, studying in the Netherlands, your university is willing to sign the documents relevant for doing an internship (i.e., Nuffic agreement).

Diversity and inclusion

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

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