Vanderlande Graduate Traineeship Job in Veghel, Netherlands

A challenging role with Vanderlande will help you to develop your career and satisfy your ambitions. We are the global leaders for value-added logistic process automation at airports and in the parcel market, as well as a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses. Our systems are operational at more than 600 airports – including 14 of the world’s top 20 – the world’s leading parcel companies, and 12 of Europe’s top 20 e-commerce companies.

Established in 1949, Vanderlande employs more than 4,500 people in more than 100 countries, all committed to moving our customers’ businesses forward. Our unique capabilities include integrating hardware, software and services into tailor-made solutions. The result is a distinctive track record in innovation, reliability and partnership. Our global presence provides an unrivalled 100 site-based teams, who ensure that our customers enjoy an optimum level of performance, 24/7.

Through building strong relationships – as well as enjoying our work and a more varied social life – the focus at Vanderlande is on the freedom to express ourselves while being trusted to deliver on every level. This is one of the key criteria on which Vanderlande has been assessed to become the number one Best Employer in The Netherlands for 2016.

If you’re ambitious and would like your career path to lead you to the fast-moving world of Vanderlande, then please contact us to set these challenges in motion.

Vanderlande – challenges in motion

Vanderlande Graduate Traineeship Job Description

The Vanderlande Graduate Traineeship is the ideal start to your career and an excellent way to get to know the company. It will also put you on the fast track to global opportunities. Over the course of two to three years, you will take on three interesting and prestigious positions within Vanderlande, each lasting approximately 6 to 18 months. Our experience indicates that this timeframe provides trainees with the optimal learning curve.  

After this pressure cooker of accelerated learning and gaining valuable experience, you will take on the position of Project Leader or Project Manager. In these roles, you will lead complex projects in international multidisciplinary teams for key customers in the airport, warehousing and parcel markets.  

In order to prepare for an all-round leadership role, you will be immersed in exciting and challenging trainee roles, for example in engineering, R&D (research and development) and life-cycle services. You will also spend a significant part of your traineeship participating in Vanderlande’s international and dynamic projects.  

Development
Your personal development plays a key role in the traineeship, and you will receive intensive personal and content-related training, both on and off the job. To ensure that you are fully supported, we’ll offer you a variety of comprehensive training courses in the fields of project- and cross-cultural management, leadership and communication.

In addition, you will get the opportunity to learn and share experiences with fellow trainees, by means of peer group coaching.  During the traineeship, you can always count on the support of your talent development coach and assigned senior manager. This will help you to reach your full potential and set you on the path to achieving your long-term career goals. 

Vanderlande Graduate Traineeship Job Requirements

Selection profile 
To be eligible, you must have obtained a relevant technical master’s degree within the last year, or will do so in the next few months. If you recognise yourself in the following profile, please prepare an extensive cover letter in which you detail how and why you meet the selection criteria. The ideal candidate will be:

• a smart self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit
• self-reflective and able to make conscious choices to stimulate personal development 
• an empathetic team player with excellent communication skills 
• driven to succeed, eager to improve every day and demonstrate a desire to be challenged.

• 27 days vacation & 13 ADV (working hours reduction) days
• Flexible working hours
• Training facilities
• Laptop & telephone
• Collective pension scheme and insurance facilities for healthcare, car, WGA (Return to Work Scheme for the Partially Disabled) etc.

Vanderlande Graduate Traineeship Application Information

Please apply with your CV and cover letter by the 'apply' button below

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Contact
If you have any questions, please contact Tjalling Kraak, Senior Recruiter - 0413 – 49 30 24.

Vanderlande Graduate Traineeship Summary