Working Student - NPI Complexity Benchmarking - SW Engineer

Position Overview

Excellent quality is a must for all new products/projects at NXP. To ensure this, every development project worldwide is subject to a peer review at an early stage of the development process. These reviews are structured through a dedicated process called NPI Complexity Benchmarking

As a working student, you will have the unique opportunity to learn about the diversity of product development processes at NXP. At the same time, you will support the project team in updating the tool landscape.

Your responsibilities will include

• Support the NPI Complexity Benchmarking in the day to day work and reporting, working with the team on means to compare projects in the portfolio, also:

• Developing graphical representations based on e.g. PowerBI

• Work on databases and latest cloud technologies (AWS/Databricks)

• Contribute to run data migrations, data enhancements and data quality

What's in it for you

• Gain hands-on knowledge of quality standards, project management methodologies, and continuous improvement of our development process

• Opportunity to develop your skills (technical, soft skills, communication, etc.)

• Work in a multinational and high-tech environment

• Opportunity to become part of NXP's Young Professional Talent Pool

• Participate in real-life assignments that contribute to NXP's goals

Your Profile

• Studying for MSc degree in, SW engineering or SW Development Studies or  similar

• Ability to drive a software project (requirements engineering to release)

• Good knowledge of MS Office products, especially Excel, PowerPoint, Word

• Basic knowledge of how to update a SharePoint site or how to work with PowerBI

• Willingness to come on site as agreed in beforehand with manager

• Available on short notice

• Proactive attitude, can work independently, takes initiative

• Excellent verbal and written English language skills, German optional

• Customer-focused, pragmatic and hands-on

Soft skills

• Persistent and assertive personality with pro-active attitude and can-do mindset

• Strong communicator with business proficient English language skills both verbal and written

• Strong analytical skills, very target driven with a strong business focus

• Plug and play, independent and team player with strong process mindset

• Knowledge sharing within the team and across the organizations

• Being able to work with deadline

Hard skills

• Ability to integrate data sources and extract actionable information from business data sources, knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. JavaScript, R, Python, DAX, VBA) for Data Management purposes and within Cloud Infrastructure (Databricks)

• This might include including creating data models, data transformation, workflow automation (MS PowerAutomate)

• Knowledge of differing Project Management approaches (e.g. PMI PMBoK, Agile Manifesto, PRINCE2) with familiarity of Project Management Lifecycle, understanding quantitative approaches to performance management

• Business Intelligence; able to generate and automate reports, dashboards, visuals (e.g. Power BI, Tableau or similar visualization platforms) and Ad-Hoc analyses of business data Experience with MS Office (Office 365, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint)

Please, note that this is a part-time working student position (max. 20 hours/week). You will need to be registered as a student at an educational instituation for the entire duration of the assignment.

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