Position Description
The Volvo Group Operations Graduate Program is an international fast-track career program with the aim of developing future experts in the field of engineering, IT, data science etc. If you are up for the challenge of driving innovation, gaining first-hand experience, and developing our future operations within a global organization, this is the graduate program for you! As a graduate, you will be an integral part of shaping Volvo Groups mobility solutions of the future.
What’s in it for you?
- 15-month trainee program during which you will be working on current, business-critical projects with integrated local and international job rotations
- You are given your own tasks and responsibilities from the start
- Benefit from personal career and team development events
- Alongside other program participants, you will attend a variety of workshops and seminars designed to help you grow into your future career at Volvo Group
- Receive a competitive salary and permanent position from day one
- Benefit from individual support, coaching and feedback from your mentor and experts within your field
- Build a network within the organisation to foster your career development
- Take the driver’s seat by shaping the program according to your own personal interests to develop your competencies for tomorrow
In addition, you will take a deep dive into some specific areas of our business such as manufacturing, health and safety, quality, and continuous improvements, while also learning about the end-to-end supply chain, aftermarket parts and our remanufacturing operations. We furthermore offer the opportunity for you to be part of our digital transformation, applying new technologies to connect and automate our processes. Together we work with AI, data science, machine learning, circular systems, virtual manufacturing and more, to build our fully electric or autonomous products.
If rotational development, a global set up and designing the world of tomorrow are aspects you are looking for in your next job context, this position might be something for you.
Required knowledge/experience
- Maximum two years of previous working experience, prior to or after graduation.
- In this truly global program, communication will be in English, hence you need to be fluent in both speaking and writing in English.
- Bachelor/master’s in engineering or Bachelor/Master in IT
- Valid work permit for the applied country if not a citizen.
- Strong communication skills (Dutch and English). You can motivate/coach your team members and set development goals.
- You feel comfortable in working with a diverse cross-functional teams
- Knowledge in software and programming
- Passion for process optimization
Job Description:
As a member of the production engineering team, you will facilitate the introduction of new technologies in the form of both data and software focused process optimizations. This ranges from supporting the operational team to solve complex diagnostic questions, analyze our current WOW and systems-map to see how we can link useful information together, create tools to help visualize and understand our data and create opportunities to work smarter in our day-to-day job.
A software leader, you will be responsible for a team of production operators, who are responsible for keeping our software diagnostic tool (PROSIT) up & running and support the product repair teams with diagnosing and reprogramming the truck. You take care of the coaching of a small team, motivate your employees, and enable them to achieve their goals.
Who are we looking for?
Do you want to grab the chance to apply all your theoretical and practical knowledge from school at a world-class leader in the automotive industry?
Do you have a keen eye for IT-focused process optimization opportunities and want to help us continuously improve our way of working?
Do you easily translate business needs into practical requirements to help develop and role out the solution into our assembly process? Do you want to help others understand the black-box that software and data can be, both on a truck as well as on an IT-system related scope?
Do you have the inspiring leader potential that will help us to shape the world we want to live in?
Are you a process & human oriented engineer that enjoys motivating and coaching his team members?
Do you need to read on more or are you already looking for the “sign-me-up” link? Well, if the latter is true, then we are looking forward to meeting you and seeing whether you can help us in our transformation towards a sustainable future in the automotive industry!
Our organization:
At the Group Trucks Operation Plant in Ghent, we build around 200 heavy-duty trucks per day. Guided by Continuous Improvement, the assembly plant provides a challenging working environment where our Customers’ Success is our number one priority. We are proud to deliver high quality trucks built with passion.
This is us, your new team:
You will be joining our team of production, software, tooling & maintenance engineers who together represent the beating technical heart of our assembly plant. We are responsible for analyzing and optimizing the assembly processes with a focus on continuous improvement. Working closely together with a cross-functional team consisting of colleagues from operations, safety, quality and other engineering departments, the team aims to work out the most effective solutions for all the challenges in the assembly process a big plant like ours faces. These include product changes and introductions, rebalances and facilitating the integration of new technologies... and that’s where you come in!!!
Curious, and have some questions? Contact me!
Manager: Bert De Coene
HRBP: Leen De Prycker
About us
The Volvo Group drives prosperity through transport solutions, offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity. Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to shaping the future landscape of sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions. Countless career opportunities are offered across the group’s leading brands and entities that share a culture of Trust, Passion, High Performance, Change and Customer Success.
www.volvogroup.com/career.
A new era is here. Technologies such as big data, automation and artificial intelligence are changing the way we look at manufacturing and logistics. Volvo Group Trucks Operations is the organization responsible for truck manufacturing and logistics within the Volvo Group and is shaping future industries.
Volvo Group Trucks Operations encompasses all production of the Group’s engines and transmissions as well as the production of Volvo, Renault and Mack trucks. The organization is also responsible for spare parts supplies to the Group’s customers and for designing, operating and optimizing logistics and supply chains for all brands. Together, Volvo Group Trucks Operations represents 30,000 employees at 30 plants and 50 distribution centers across the globe. Our global industrial footprint offers an opportunity for an international career in a state-of-the-art industrial environment, in which continuous improvement is the foundation. Join our teams as well!
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