POSTED: 12 February 2025
STARTING DATE: As soon as possible
LOCATION: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
MISSION TO METRICS
The mission of The Ocean Cleanup is to rid the world’s oceans of plastic.
Our multi-disciplinary Technology team within the Science & Technology department, develops, evolves and applies a portfolio of robust, scalable technical solutions for River and Pacific plastic cleanup, enabling effective and long-term operations across a diverse range of challenging environments.
"We offer internships in varying flavors; from direct involvement in running projects, to technology, method and tool development, to hybrid topics. Each of those can have a more theoretical or more practical approach. We tune the internship topic and approach to the skills and interests of the best applicants and the needs of our team. Whichever core topic we go for; you will always also be involved in some real-life projects, where our engineers teach you tricks of the trade – from analyzing problems to designing, verifying and implementing solutions!" - Samo Simonian, Technical Architect
THE ASSIGNMENT
Depending on your skills and interests, and the timing of your internship, you’ll be involved in a relevant sub-selection of the following typical work:
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
STARTING DATE: As soon as possible
LOCATION: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
MISSION TO METRICS
The mission of The Ocean Cleanup is to rid the world’s oceans of plastic.
Our multi-disciplinary Technology team within the Science & Technology department, develops, evolves and applies a portfolio of robust, scalable technical solutions for River and Pacific plastic cleanup, enabling effective and long-term operations across a diverse range of challenging environments.
"We offer internships in varying flavors; from direct involvement in running projects, to technology, method and tool development, to hybrid topics. Each of those can have a more theoretical or more practical approach. We tune the internship topic and approach to the skills and interests of the best applicants and the needs of our team. Whichever core topic we go for; you will always also be involved in some real-life projects, where our engineers teach you tricks of the trade – from analyzing problems to designing, verifying and implementing solutions!" - Samo Simonian, Technical Architect
THE ASSIGNMENT
Depending on your skills and interests, and the timing of your internship, you’ll be involved in a relevant sub-selection of the following typical work:
- Support the development and evolution of our integrated technical vision & roadmap: Through pipeline, technology and market (gap) analyses.
- Scout & rank plastic interception locations and make a range of concept designs
- Develop novel hardware, software or hybrid technologies: For plastic interception, plastic extraction, system mooring, sensing/measurement or other functions in the cleanup systems.
- Develop custom methods and tools/software, for the reliable design and verification of our plastic cleanup solutions
- Support the development and implementation of R&D and engineering guidelines
- Model and analyze the performance and other phenomena of our solutions (using analytical, numerical, FEA or CFD methods as relevant)
- Create 2D and/or 3D drawings of designs, mock-ups and prototypes
- Interact with the colleagues in other department for a seamless integration of the solutions
- Depending in the timing and topic of your internship you may be involved in manufacturing, installation, testing and operation support in R&D campaigns or operational deployments in the field.
- Education in a relevant technical degree (e.g. mechanical, mechatronics, civil, marine, off-shore, software, systems engineering, environmental technologies)
- Good communication and report-writing skills, with proficiency in the English language
- Affinity with practical design, production, testing and operation
- Experience with analytical and numerical modelling and analysis
- Experience in design and simulation software
- Experience with well structured (python) programming
- Affinity with "stuff on and in the water" (boats, sailing etc)
PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS
- Intrinsic motivation for our mission to rid the world’s oceans and rivers of plastics
- Pro-activeness to learn fundamental and applied engineering
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail and ability to work with complex information
- Creativity and pragmatism
- Autonomy on assigned work (supported by a supervisor and colleagues)
- At least a rudimentary sense of humor is required
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
- Clearly indicate whether you are seeking an internship as part of a mandatory internship program for your education, as part of a graduation topic or otherwise, and what is your (rough) prospected graduation date.
- Depending on the topic, you will be supervised by our cross-departmental Technical Architect, our Head of Technology or one of the specialized or multi-disciplinary Engineers in the Technology department.
- At most times we will have multiple positions open immediately or in the further future. Apply with a clear indication of your available period(s) and we will assess a possible match in terms topic and timing.
- Duration: 4 month nominal minimum. 6 months or longer ideally. Deviations can be discussed.
- Combination with or add-on of a graduation project can be discussed.
- Stipend 600 Eur/month
- The role is based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
- A valid Dutch/EU work permit is required.
- We believe we are stronger together, while harnessing the uniqueness each individual brings. That is why we take a fair, equal opportunity, and transparent approach to hiring and welcome special needs requests.