Innovation Internship: Innovation Management Engineer

Job description

You join the Toulouse Lab of Alten’s Innovation Department. The ALTEN Labs run research projects across many sectors to offer clients new technology solutions.

With support from an innovation lead, you roll out the Innovation Management System across several labs and levels of the company. You use methods such as SIPOC and functional analysis (AFAV), project management and an agile approach.

The internship lasts six months at the Toulouse Lab, with a stipend of 1,200 euros gross per month, meal vouchers and transport costs covered. A job offer may be considered at the end of the internship.

What you'll do

• Describing internal innovation management processes: follow the recommendations of the ISO 56001 standard
• Describing internal innovation management processes: integrate the processes that already exist
• Describing internal innovation management processes: map all the processes needed and set their priority
• Describing internal innovation management processes: use methods such as SIPOC to describe the processes
• Describing internal innovation management processes: option 1, use Group documentation and standardise practices
• Describing internal innovation management processes: option 2, run a functional value analysis (AFAV) on the innovation management system processes and assess the value of some of them
• A complex application, multi-site: cover the practices of all the research labs
• A complex application, multi-level: describe how things work for the Innovation Department and what remains to be done at ALTEN level
• A complex application, multi-stakeholder: involves everyone in innovation (business teams, directors, support functions)
• A complex application, multi-standard: integrate everything into ALTEN’s Integrated Management System
• An innovation project including: a state-of-the-art review (AFAV, ISO 56001)
• An innovation project including: documenting the research in a scientific report
• An innovation project including: project and multidisciplinary team management throughout the internship
• An innovation project including: an iterative (agile) approach based on test and learn

Who they're looking for

• Final-year engineering student looking for a final-year internship, with a specialisation in innovation or R&D
• Knowledge of management systems and command of several related methods such as SIPOC, DMAIC and workflows, applied during your studies
• Responsive, rigorous, autonomous and service-minded