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Internship Pre-development Roof Systems

Posted 22 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 2 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Salary
€385 per month
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)
Start date
1 September 2017

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Inalfa Roof Systems designs, develops and manufactures sunroofs and open-roof systems for the automotive industry. Our customers are BMW Group, Daimler, Chrysler Group, Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Audi, Volvo, Citroën, Chery, Geely, Hyundai Kia, Land Rover, Renault, Nissan and others. Inalfa Roof Systems Group is headquartered in Venray (Limburg), the Netherlands, and has a global footprint with facilities in Europe, Asia and the USA.

Global Technology is responsible for the global pre-development of new products and technologies before they are offered to our customer and industrialized in project teams.

The Global Technology department contains 4 disciplines:

  • Global Research

Responsible for the long term development strategy, market and customer research and long term innovative technologies

  • Global Development

Responsible for the development from ideas to marketable product concepts and technologies.

  • Global Engineering

Responsible for the standardization of technologies worldwide, the strategy and the knowledge management within the various technology disciplines. They also provide support to the project teams worldwide.

  • Patent office:

Responsible for patenting new concepts, guarding Inalfa from infringing competitor patents and investigating infringements by our competition on our own patents

The student will work within the Global development department, individually under supervision of a product developer as well as in cooperating with other department members. It is a serious but informal department with a friendly and personal atmosphere. The students will be part of the team and will be guided in a way that provides maximum results for Inalfa and for the student, to create a win-win situation

Your main tasks and responsibilities are:

In order to be successful in the market, sunroofs have to be continuously improved because of increasing market demands. Besides that, new markets are coming up, for example electrical vehicles. This means new technologies and new concepts of roof systems need to be developed. The global development department is developing those new future technologies to prepare Inalfa for the future market. During the development many aspects need to be reviewed: headroom, water management, strength, vibrations/rattles, stiffness, safety, costs, manufacturing etc…

The intern assignment is to assist the Senior Advanced Engineer in engineering activities that will lead to a product that fulfills all requirements and has a good future market position.

These activities will be mainly focused on the mechanism development and can include for example:

  • Problem Analysis
  • Benchmarking of competitor products
  • Requirement analysis
  • Idea generation and selection
  • Concept design and development
  • Creating force/strength calculations
  • Creation of tolerance stacks
  • Creation of manufacturing strategy and cost analysis
  • Risk assessment

What do we expect from you?

  • You are creative and independent;
  • Good control of the English language is required;
  • You have strong analytical skills and good technical knowledge;
  • You’re not the person to sit around and wait, but go out there and take the initiative to get what you need to be successful in your assignments.

What can you expect from us?

  • Attractive working conditions and self-development opportunities.
  • Short procedures, fast decision making and open communication structures.
  • Friendly and informal atmosphere.
  • Innovative leader with a strong drive to win!

FOCUS - TRANSPARENCY - ONE INALFA and RESPECT are core values within our company.

Inalfa Roof Systems is a global first tier supplier for the automotive and truck industry. We design, develop and manufacture sunroofs and open-roof systems for almost all automotive OEM companies globally, such as BMW Group, Daimler, Chrysler Group, Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Audi, Volvo, Citroën, Chery, Geely, Hyundai Kia, Land Rover, Renault, Nissan, Honda and many others. Inalfa Roof Systems…


Inalfa Roof Systems is a global first tier supplier for the automotive and truck industry. We design, develop and manufacture sunroofs and open-roof systems for almost all automotive OEM companies globally, such as BMW Group, Daimler, Chrysler Group, Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Audi, Volvo, Citroën, Chery, Geely, Hyundai Kia, Land Rover, Renault, Nissan, Honda and many others. Inalfa Roof Systems is headquartered in Venray, the Netherlands, and has a global footprint with facilities in Europe, Asia and the America’s.

Our company culture is best described as open and informal and we work in a flexible setting to achieve the best possible results! Our employees work with appealing products in a high-quality technology setting. We have a 'no-nonsense' culture and operate in a flat organization structure.

We are proud to be a people focused organization with clearly defined company values:

• Focus at Inalfa means being dedicated to providing quality products through hard work and commitment.
• One Inalfa means everyone working together toward a common goal regardless of department, unit or region.
• Respect at Inalfa means taking care to understand others in order to create a positive work environment.
• Transparency at Inalfa means having open and honest communications without hidden agendas.

Do you feel comfortable with these values and principles, then please do not hesitate longer and contact us for more information to become part of our winning team!

Automotive
Venray
5,000 employees

What employees are saying

Ramon Gasulla

Project CAD designer

Ramon Gasulla

Career Development
I have studied Mechanical Engineering in Barcelona for 5 years. The last semester I went to Japan to do my Master Thesis. I worked as a personal teacher during the Summers and also I completed an internship at SEAT. I joined Inalfa in January 2012 in…