• Gathering hiring briefs from managers to understand their recruitment needs
  • Posting job advertisements
  • Reviewing incoming applications and scheduling interviews
  • Conducting candidate pre-screening interviews and writing interview summaries
  • Contributing to the identification of new candidate sourcing solutions
  • Supporting the organization of recruitment and team events, as well as communication around these events
  • Building strong connections and keeping stakeholders informed of your progress
  • Support the coordination efforts of EEB MFF advocacy (in particular help with the monitoring of relevant legislative developments, meetings with EEB members or colleagues, ensure good internal communication flows on the topic)
  • Support mobilisation and advocacy efforts of the broader environmental coalition working on MFF (take part in the weekly meetings of the coalition and help prepare them, support collective actions when needed (calls with members, gatherings, advocacy meetings))
  • Support the EEB European Institutions and Governance team horizontal policy work, in particular help with the weekly newsletter, help with the different horizontal policy task forces (minutes, follow up).
  • Enable and shape data driven decision making for our management and leverage Celonis AI capabilities.
  • Design and conceptualize strategic programs (incl. data analysis).
  • Support and oversee program execution from inception to completion.
  • Coordinate and guide all involved parties in their respective streams.
  • Take ownership of specific streams, ensuring their success.
  • Identify and mitigate potential risks to ensure smooth program delivery.
  • Report to our executive management on program progress and outcomes.

As an intern in our department, you’ll be part of a competent and diverse team in Corporate Research. You’ll work closely with our experts on developing new mechatronic features in our power tools, following the development process from idea to implementation. 
Depending on your interests and experience, you will develop and evaluate new model- and data-based algorithms, set up and instrument prototypes, and test and tune your ideas on test rigs or hands-on in our labs. 
We are always on the hunt for further ideas of improvement. Therefore, you will have the opportunity to contribute with your innovative ideas to our innovation process and bring our products to the next level.

In this assignment you will work on embellishment processes that are being  used for large format printing. The current setup demonstrates the principle, but the next step is to bring the process towards full platform speeds while making the hardware concept more compact, robust and controllable. The challenge is strongly mechatronic; examples are thin film handling, web transport, cartridge design, tension control, actuator behavior, sensor feedback and process timing all interact. You will investigate how the present hardware and control strategy can be improved, and you will validate your ideas through experiments on a dedicated test setup.

The specifics of your assignment may include

  • Characterizing the current embellishment setup and identifying speed-limiting mechanisms in web handling, thin film handling, tension control and process synchronization.
  • Tuning and improving control loops, web/thin film tension or actuator timing, using experimental data and system-identification thinking.
  • Improving the hardware concept to support higher process speeds and a more compact machine layout, including sensor selection, mounting/cartridge concepts, mechanical adaptations and cable/signal routing.
  • Programming and adapting control or data-acquisition software for experimentation, logging, visualization and repeatable test execution.
  • Designing and executing experiments to quantify process stability, repeatability, operating window and failure modes at increasing speed.
  • Translating the findings into practical design recommendations for the next iteration of the embellishment process.

Research areas

  • High-speed web and media handling: determine which mechanical or dynamic effects become dominant when moving towards full print speeds.
  • Control-loop performance: improve speed, stability and disturbance rejection without making the system overly sensitive or difficult to tune.
  • Compact hardware design: explore how the present setup can be simplified, integrated or redesigned while maintaining accessibility for tests and maintenance.
  • Process robustness: study what causes wrinkles, slip, tension peaks, misalignment or unstable transfer, and determine how to detect or prevent these issues.
  • Experimental validation: create a practical test approach with clear KPIs, logging, comparison methods and recommendations for follow-up development.

Deliverables

  • A structured report describing the analysis, experiments, control-loop tuning, hardware recommendations, and validation of results.
  • A working experimental improvement or prototype change, where feasible, including documented settings and software/scripts used during testing.
  • A concise design recommendation for bringing the process closer to full print speeds and towards a more compact module concept.
  • An end presentation for CPP colleagues and participation in the bi-annual poster presentation event.