Internship/Graduation: Developing User-Centred Technical Documentation

Vanderlande; Veghel; On-site; EUR 5,600 - 6,100; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Internship salary

Commuting allowance

On-site health center

Employee communities

Company restaurant & coffee bar

Job summary

Vanderlande is offering an Internship/Graduation placement in Veghel to explore how people interact with technical information and to design more useful user-centered documentation. You will conduct user research, analyze needs, and help shape requirements for safer, clearer information.

Increase your skills in interviews, observations and cross-functional collaboration while contributing to practical documentation improvements for Vanderlande systems.

Qualifications

• Interest in understanding how people interact with technical information.
• Analytical mindset to bring different perspectives together.
• Comfortable communicating in English.

Responsibilities

• Conduct interviews, observations and other user research to understand how people use technical information.
• Identify users' information needs and difficulties when searching for or using documentation.
• Investigate safety and learning requirements behind existing technical information.
• Analyse findings to identify opportunities for more user-centred technical documentation.
• Combine user needs with technical requirements to explore improvements.

Skills

User research

Interviews

Analytical mindset

English communication

Education

Bachelor/Master student in Human-Technology Interaction or related

Tools

Documentation tools

Job description

Job Title Internship/Graduation: Developing User-Centred Technical Documentation

Assignment type : Internship/ Graduation
Start date : February 2027
Assignment duration : 6 months
Location : Veghel
Education level : Bachelor / Master
Desired study : Human- Technology Interaction, Industrial Design, Innovation Sciences, other user-centered disciplines
Language : Dutch / English

Description of assignment

Technical documentation serves many purposes. It helps users perform their work safely and effectively, understand technical systems and meet legal, safety and contractual requirements. However, users may not always need the same information, or need it in the same format. How can technical information be designed around the people who use it? During this internship or graduation assignment, you will investigate how people find, use, share and adapt technical information in their daily work. Through interviews, observations and other user research methods, you will explore what information users really need, what they use today, what they struggle to find and where they develop their own solutions. You will also investigate the technical, learning and safety requirements behind the information Vanderlande provides. By bringing these perspectives together, you will explore opportunities to make technical information more relevant and useful for its intended users

Department description

The Content Development & Training department at Vanderlande is responsible for developing technical documentation, training materials and user-focused information that help people understand, operate and maintain Vanderlande systems. The department works with different types of content for a variety of audiences and applications, with a focus on making technical information clear, accessible and useful in practice.

Tasks/responsibilities

• Conduct interviews, observations and other user research to understand how people use technical information
• Identify users' information needs, current practices and difficulties when searching for or using documentation
• Investigate the technical, learning and safety requirements behind existing technical information
• Analyse research findings to identify opportunities for more user-centred technical documentation
• Bring user needs and technical requirements together to explore potential improvements

Your profile

• An interest in understanding how people interact with technical information
• Curious and motivated to investigate user needs through interviews, observations and research
• An analytical mindset and the ability to bring different perspectives together
• An interest in user-centred design, human factors, ergonomics or related disciplines
• Comfortable communicating in English
• *Mandatory enrolment to a Dutch Education System & resident of The Netherlands

What we offer

• A monthly internship allowance (based on a 40-hour work week):
• Bachelor: €500 per month
• Master: €550 per month
• Full commuting allowance, including public transport, depending on whether you have access to free public transport or not
• On-site health center with gym
• Active employee communities and initiatives
• Excellent company restaurant and barista coffee bar