Location: Amsterdam, NL
Department: Business Transformation
Type: Internship
Duration: 5 Months
Start date: 1 September
Days per week: 4 to 5 days
Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) N.V. (HCME) is a leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, known for innovation, quality, and a strong global presence. Our teams work across engineering, product development, supply chain, marketing, HR, and many more professional fields.
At HCME you won’t be “just an intern”. You’ll join an international environment, work with experts, and get real opportunities to grow, try, fail, learn, and contribute.
We combine the professionalism of a global organization with the energy of a young, modern community — Young HCME, our network for everyone under 35, full of social events, workshops, lunches, and fun activities.
You’ll learn, meet great people, and get real responsibility — no coffee runs, no meaningless tasks.
Honesty & Sincerity – The foundation of every interaction.
Environmental Respect – Protecting the world we help shape.
Social Responsibility – Valuing people, culture, and community.
Reliable Leadership – Agreed is agreed. We stand behind our commitments.
During this internship, you will be part of the Business Transformation team, where you’ll work on real projects and contribute to meaningful improvements.
You will be working on: How we make meetings across the business work better. This means auditing how time is currently being spent, engaging directly with senior stakeholders to sharpen meeting purpose and structure, designing a measurement framework, and helping us build a live dashboard that tracks effectiveness over time.
We make sure your internship fits your study requirements and your personal learning goals.
You will:
Conduct a full audit of recurring meetings across an area of the business, mapping ownership, attendees, frequency, and purpose into a Master Meeting Register
Lead one-on-one sessions with meeting owners to define objectives and co-create structured agendas
Design and roll out a Meeting Scorecard framework to measure and track effectiveness over time
Analyse scorecard data to identify patterns, flag underperforming meetings, and surface recommendations
Develop a dashboard specification and act as the business-side liaison with the BI team during the Power BI build
We make sure your internship fits your study requirements and your personal learning goals.
You’ll have:
A dedicated internship supervisor in the team
An Internhip Coordinator (HR) who checks in with you twice during your internship
Support to help you grow both personally and professionally
We make sure your internship really teaches you something. You will learn to:
Lead a process improvement initiative from discovery through to delivery in a real business environment
Translate operational data into visual insights using tools like Power BI
Design practical measurement frameworks that drive behaviour change
Work in an international company
Engage and influence senior stakeholders across different functions
Handle real responsibilities and deliver your own work
Communicate with different teams and cultures
Build confidence in your professional skills
Explore your future career path
Grow through feedback and coaching
You’ll also be invited to Young HCME events — great for networking and fun.
You are a student who is:
Enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s program (HBO or WO)
A student in Business Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field with an interest in process improvement and organisational effectiveness
A confident communicator who is comfortable engaging with people at all levels and running structured conversations
Organised, self-driven, and able to manage a project with multiple workstreams and stakeholders across a three-month placement
Curious, proactive, and eager to learn
Comfortable asking questions (we love that!)
Positive, open-minded, and a team player
Able to work in English
You must be enrolled at a recognized educational institution
Internship agreement from your school
Availability: 5 months / 4/5 days per week
Monthly internship allowance of € 600,- based on a 40 hours workweek.
If you do not have a Dutch student travel product, you will receive €0.23 per km (up to 37.5 km one-way) with a maximum of
If you do have a student travel product, you receive a maximum of €9.20 per workday as travel contribution.
Laptop + all necessary tools
A supportive supervisor and HR Internship Coordinator
Access to Young HCME community events
Real experience in a global company
You will be guided by Monique Jackson from the Business Transformation Team.
Additionally, you’ll meet with our Internship Coordinator at key moments during your internship to discuss progress, wellbeing, and support.
We’d love to hear from you! You can apply via https://hcme.catsone.nl/careers or by sending an email to [email protected] including your CV and a short motivation.
