HBO internship Operational Excellence
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Job Location:
Heerlen - Netherlands
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
9 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION:
ABOUT ABBOTT
Abbott is a global health care company devoted to improving life through the development of products and technologies in health care. With a portfolio of leading science-based offerings in diagnostics medical devices nutritional and branded generic pharmaceuticals Abbott serves people in more than 160 countries and employs approximately 110000 people. During an internship at Abbott you will learn about all details of our businesses. Abbott offers an all including internship with a diverse choice of training and personal coaching during your internship. Furthermore you become part of a successful and valued organization which is a key player in the future of healthcare. Divided over the Dutch Abbott locations in Heerlen Zwolle Olst Weesp Breda Hoofddorp and Veenendaal Abbott offers a variety of internships.
ABOUT ABBOTT VASCULAR NETHERLANDS (AVN)
Abbott Vascular Netherlands is located in Heerlen The Netherlands. Together with the distribution center in the USA we are responsible for the for the worldwide distribution of Abbotts vascular products. From our 10000 m2 warehouse we ship an average of 1700 deliveries per day (765000 units per month) to hospitals Abbott distributors and Abbott affiliates in Europe Middle East Africa and South America. We do not only ship international on a global scale also our 200 employees working in the warehouse and office departments come from all over the world. Making us a company of inclusion and diversity. Together as 1 team we make sure that we process customer orders maintain a high service level to ensure that our customers receive the right products on time. Abbott Vascular Netherlands offers a complete and high standard Supply Chain solution including an extensive range of value-add logistics activities such as labeling relabeling and reworking of products to meet country specific needs.
WHAT WILL YOU FOCUS ON DURING YOUR INTERNSHIP
Background
Your assignment will be in one of the Operations departments in our distribution center in collaboration with the Operational Excellence team. This will make your assignment dynamic interesting and meaningful. Our aim is to provide a real work experience to our students so you will work on a project from start to actual implementation. You will be coached and guided on content stakeholder management presentation skills and of course your own return you are going to lead a DMAIC cycle on an actual problem in our organization. We optimize our workflows by understanding the real problem mapping the current process capturing inputs from the different stakeholders and determine the root cause(s). You will identify improvements and implement if possible during your assignment period. During the assignment you will work closely with various roles and departments such as: Warehouse OperatorsSupervisors/Teamleads Quality Engineering Supply Chain as well as your project sponsor in the Site Leadership Team and your A3 coach.
Problem Description
Together we will select a process problem or inefficiency that needs to be resolved in our warehouse processes. This could originate from KPI/metrics not on target or our Strategy to deliver life changing technologies to our Customers and be a Trusted Partner as Center of Excellence for Distribution. Inefficiencies could be considered in lead time of processes time spend on activities variation within outcomes quality defectsand many more.
Objectives
You will spend 100% of your time leading an initiative based on the DMAIC structure about how to make the team more effective within their workflow.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a HBO/WO student to join our business for this assignment including but not limited to the following field of studies:
People and Business management
Business Studies (Business Management)
International Business
Technische Bedrijfskunde
WHAT WE OFFER
A dynamic team which will offer you support and a challenging problem to solve
Expertise on the application of Lean Sigma DMAIC methodology
Working with different functions in a global diverse company
A competitive internship salary of 500 euros per month
HOW TO APPLY
Apply directly or send your CV and motivation to
The base pay for this position is
N/AIn specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Administrative Support
DIVISION:
AVD Vascular
LOCATION:
Netherlands > Heerlen : Argonstraat 1
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Not specified
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
No
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Not Applicable
Required Experience:
Intern
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Operational Risk Management
- Risk Management
- Six Sigma
- Continuous Improvement
- Lean
- Process Improvement
- Pricing
- Customer Support
- Alteryx
- Kaizen
- Project Management Lifecycle
About Company
WHO WE ARE CREATING LIFE-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY From removing the regular pain of fingersticks as people manage their diabetes to connecting patients to doctors with real-time information monitoring their hearts, from easing chronic pain and movement disorders to testing half the world’s ... View more
