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Engineering Internship – Defence PMO (M/F)

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Cherbourg-en-CotentinPublished on 15 October 2026

You help Alten's PMO team on a defence scope make its data reliable, improve its tracking tools and build dashboards for management.

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Job description

You join Alten's PMO (project management office) in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, working on a defence-related scope. You focus on the tools used to track activity, planning and the quality of deliverables.

You make the database more reliable, build data entry forms, and improve the activity tracking and planning tools, including Gantt charts and workload plans. You also design a dashboard and a Power BI report for management.

This is a 6-month final-year internship for a future engineer who is comfortable with Power BI and Excel.

What you'll do

  • Database reliability: consolidate the database fields to keep the data consistent
  • Database reliability: build data entry forms to reduce human error
  • Activity tracking tools: make the activity log file reliable by fixing existing issues and improving how quantitative data is extracted
  • Activity tracking tools: improve the tool used to check activity reports
  • Operational tracking tool: upgrade the planning tool so it can display Gantt charts and workload plans, for more flexibility
  • Steering and reporting: design a service tracking dashboard for management
  • Steering and reporting: build a Power BI report showing the key health indicators of the scope
  • Steering and reporting: define and roll out a quality control process for deliverables

Who they're looking for

  • About to graduate from an engineering school, with a PMO specialisation or a similar field
  • Final-year internship lasting 6 months
  • Technical skills: Power BI, advanced Excel
  • Personal qualities: rigour, autonomy, critical thinking

Prepare your interview

  1. Learn what Alten does, the sector it works in and the projects on its website.
  2. Go through each task listed here and work out why the team needs it done.
  3. Prepare a real example for each task, then tie it back to what the company does.
See the full method and a sample answer (in French)

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