Internship: Innovation within IT&IM

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.

Damen Global Support Group offers an international environment where digital innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning are central to the work.

The role

As part of Innovators, you will focus on identifying, experimenting with, and validating emerging technologies, especially in automation. The assignment for this internship will be co-defined with the product owner. You will mostly 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 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
• 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
• A hands-on attitude and eagerness to take on this project

What we offer

As an intern at Damen, you will receive:

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

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