Location: ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Internships at Topigs Norsvin
At Topigs Norsvin we see value in offering interesting and challenging internships to students. This enables us to introduce our company to employees of the future and also learn from their approach to keep us sharp and open minded. We offer an environment where interns can safely develop, learn and grow professionally and personally.
Who are we?
Topigs Norsvin is the world-wide leading swine genetics company renowned for its innovative genetic solutions for cost-efficient and balanced pig production. Research, innovation and fast dissemination of genetic progress are cornerstones of our company. We are committed to help our customers to be successful in terms of production efficiency, meat quality, animal robustness and healthy high productivity.
In our words: balanced breeding and total feed efficiency.
What is the internship about?
At our (connected) farms certain tests and benchmarks are performed of our pigs and piglets. These benchmark/tests deliver data. This data is afterwards registered in our Android application called “ToNo”.
This data provides information of multiple important parameters such as colour, number of born piglets, number of survival piglets, growth, weight and many others. As this is done for many animals it’s important to be able to identify individual animals, this is done by scanning the ear tags. All this data is synchronized with a back-end application and used to calculate parts of our breeding value estimations of boars, sows and piglets. Originally the “ToNo” application was developed as a pilot application, but due to the great results, the application is becoming more indispensable.
Your challenge
Goal of this internship is to perform an investigation to improve usability of the application and to deliver recommendations to reach this goal. As more and more persons are using the ‘ToNo’ application there is a need to improve the usability without making compromises to the functional value. There are very specific characteristics that have strong influence on the use of the application, e.g. dark and dusty places, animals that need to be scanned do not stand still, user is performing multiple tasks at same moment, no or low availability of Wi-Fi, etc.
Together with the supplier of the tool, a begin can be made to implement small and quick improvements. Other more complex or long-term improvements will be registered on the backlog to be planned after prioritization. To be successful it’s important to have close interaction with our Breeding Program Managers as well as end-users in the farms. You will also have the opportunity to visit these farms and experience the usage of the application in practise.
Are you up for the task?
We are looking for Dutch based students meeting the following requirements:
- Currently pursuing an IT related education at Bachelor level or higher
- Eagerness to learn, curious mindset and ability to adapt to a challenging environment
- Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with team members
- Proficient English level (C1 spoken and written).
What we offer you
You will have the unique opportunity to contribute to our company goal: the world’s best and fastest translator of market needs into desired services/products, by generating genetic (data) solutions. Your input contributes to a sustainable change within our organization: from independent and protected task orientation to answering business issues in an innovative way with the help of IT! Furthermore:
- € 500 gross monthly internship allowance
- Compensation of travel kilometers to our office and/or external locations
- Guidance from experienced and highly skilled colleagues within a challenging environment
Interested?
For more information, contact Gerwin Rutten, Product Owner Breeding & Genetics IT, on telephone number +31 6 28 44 29 64
Have a look at our website
www.topigsnorsvin.com
