Verstegen in Rotterdam is offering an IT internship assignment called "Control over energy and impact", open to technical university of applied sciences and university students in ICT, Data Science, AI, Industrial Engineering or Engineering Management. The internship lasts a minimum of 20 weeks and pays €400-€500 per month. At Youth Works Hub, we went through the full vacancy and set out every detail below.
Internship Snapshot
🏢 Company: Verstegen
📍 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
🧪 Project: Control over energy and impact
⏱️ Duration: Minimum 20 weeks
💶 Internship allowance: €400-€500 per month
🏠 Home base: IT department
The Project: Control Over Energy and Impact
The project is about smartly managing CO₂ reduction, costs and future-proof decision-making. The central research question is how Verstegen can automatically access, combine and analyse data on energy, water and production from different systems, so that reliable management information supports better decisions on CO₂ reduction, costs, capacity and efficiency.
Why This Assignment Exists
⚖️ Laws and regulations, including the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), require increasingly better insight into energy use and energy-saving measures
🌱 Verstegen works to reduce CO₂ emissions from buildings and production and to minimise energy and water consumption, based on its Climate Transition Plan and SBTi targets
🗄️ A lot of relevant data is available, but it is scattered across various systems and data sources
🔌 The next step is to unlock and consolidate this data automatically and translate it into reliable management information
🏗️ The insights support decisions on cost savings, efficiency improvements, CO₂ reduction, investments and smarter use of existing energy capacity, which matters in a time of grid congestion and limited grid capacity
Objective of the Internship
The goal is to investigate how Verstegen can create a single integrated data and dashboard environment for energy, water and production. The assignment goes beyond building a dashboard: the entire data chain is central, from automatically extracting and storing data to analysis, interpretation and visualisation. To keep the assignment feasible, you develop a working prototype based on a selected number of relevant data sources and design an approach that can be scaled up later.
The Assignment in Four Steps
🗺️ Data and architecture: map out data sources, data gaps and the desired scalable architecture
🔗 Extract and combine: automatically read selected sources, store them centrally and link consumption to buildings, volumes, lines and processes
📈 Analysis and signalling: make trends, peaks, deviations and hidden consumption visible and investigate possible causes
📊 Dashboard and decision-making: translate the data into KPIs and management information for CO₂, costs, capacity, efficiency and investments
Where relevant, you also investigate whether AI or machine learning offers added value for anomaly detection, predictions and automatic alerts.
What Makes This Assignment Interesting
You work on a concrete challenge where IT and data, AI, technology, energy, sustainability and business operations converge, with direct applications to consumption, CO₂, costs, capacity and investment decisions.
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Examples of Steering Information
💧 Energy and water consumption: trends, per building or process and per kg of product
🌙 Peaks, deviations, night and weekend consumption, and capacity versus contracted capacity
☀️ Self-generation, CO₂ emissions, climate targets and savings opportunities
Desired End Results
🧾 An overview of data sources and data gaps plus a scalable data architecture
🧰 Working connections, a central dataset and a prototype of the dashboard
🚨 Automatic analyses and alerts, plus advice on AI, implementation and scaling
Desired Profile
Verstegen is looking for a technical university of applied sciences or university student, for example in ICT, Data Science, AI, Industrial Engineering or Engineering Management, with an interest in data, technology and sustainability.
🐍 Python, SQL, APIs, Power BI, data engineering, AI/machine learning or IoT are a plus
🔧 More importantly, you can connect systems and translate data into practical solutions
Guidance and Collaboration
IT is your home base. You work independently and together with Technical Services, Operations, Facilities, CSR and management, with regular meetings to discuss progress and decisions.
🖧 IT: systems and integrations
🔩 Technical Services: installations and meters
🏭 Operations: production
🏢 Facilities: buildings and capacity
📑 CSR: CO₂ and reporting
💼 Management: costs and investments
How to Apply
Apply using the application form on the vacancy page. Verstegen also notes that no fees are paid for referrals made in connection with this vacancy.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who can apply for the Verstegen IT internship?
Technical university of applied sciences and university students, for example in ICT, Data Science, AI, Industrial Engineering or Engineering Management, with an interest in data, technology and sustainability.
How long is the internship?
The internship lasts a minimum of 20 weeks.
How much is the internship allowance?
The allowance is €400-€500 per month.
Which skills are a plus?
Python, SQL, APIs, Power BI, data engineering, AI/machine learning and IoT are listed as a plus. More importantly, you can connect systems and translate data into practical solutions.
What will I build during the internship?
You develop a working prototype of an integrated data and dashboard environment for energy, water and production, based on a selected number of data sources, and design an approach that can be scaled up later.
Who will I work with?
IT is your home base, and you work with Technical Services, Operations, Facilities, CSR and management.
Deadline
⏳ As soon as possible!
Links
Vacancy page and application form: https://verstegen.nl/en/pages/vacature-stageopdracht-ict
Contact: jbuuron@verstegen.nl
