Internship: HMI & UX Design for Smart Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly internship allowance (€500–€>

Commuting allowance

On-site health center

Employee communities

Restaurant & coffee bar

Job summary

Vanderlande in Veghel, Netherlands, invites you to join the Modularization and Deployment team as an HMI & UX Design intern. You will work on improving operator interfaces for PLC-controlled parcel sortation systems, translating user needs into clear, scalable designs and testing improvements in Siemens TIA Portal.

Ideal candidates study Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering, Industrial Product Design or HBO ICT, with an interest in HMI usability and strong English communication.

Qualifications

• Interest in HMI usability and user-centred interface design.
• Basic knowledge of Siemens TIA Portal.
• Practical experience with PLC or HMI systems preferred.
• Good communication skills in English.
• Affinity with industrial automation and UI design.
• Mandatory enrolment in Dutch education system & resident of The Netherlands.

Responsibilities

• Interview users to capture requirements.
• Develop a compact HMI design baseline (navigation, labels, buttons, status indicators, alarms).
• Review interface with users and document findings and dependencies.
• Implement HMI improvements in Siemens TIA Portal.
• Test the solution on Siemens MTP700/1200 HMIs.
• Prepare solution for reuse and document steps for automatic project generation.

Skills

HMI usability

User-centred design

English communication

Industrial automation affinity

Education

Bachelor/Master in Electrical Engineering / related field

Tools

Siemens TIA Portal

Job description

Assignment type: Internship

Internship: HMI & UX Design for Smart Automation

Contract type: Full time

Start date: February 2027

Assignment duration: 6 months

Location: Veghel, Netherlands

Education level: Bachelor / Master

Desired study: Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering, Industrial Product Design, HBO ICT

Language: Dutch / English

Description of assignment

When every minute of downtime matters, technical systems need to be easy to understand and troubleshoot. In this internship, you will work on improving the operator interfaces used with our PLC-controlled parcel sortation systems. These HMI screens show system status and diagnostics and are used by customers, project controls engineers and service engineers in the field.

You will explore what users need from the interface and translate these needs into a clear, consistent and intuitive HMI design. You will improve existing visualizations, add new functions based on user feedback and make the interface scalable for future functionality. The agreed improvements will be implemented and tested.

Department description

You will join the Modularization and Deployment department, which is part of Technology. The department is responsible for modularizing standard equipment into functional, multidisciplinary building blocks. These building blocks are used by projects to engineer customer solutions for parcel sortation systems.

The team develops and deploys PLC software deliverables and other multidisciplinary library files for engineering. The department also supports engineering teams in using these solutions and continuously improves them based on user feedback. During your internship, you will be guided by the PLC team and work with stakeholders from multiple global engineering offices.

Tasks/responsibilities

• Interview service engineers, project controls engineers and other users to understand their requirements
• Develop a compact HMI design baseline covering navigation, labels, buttons, status indications, alarms and screen titles
• Review the interface with representative users and document findings, decisions and technical dependencies
• Implement agreed HMI improvements in Siemens TIA Portal, including relevant PLC/HMI interface changes
• Test the improved solution on Siemens MTP700/1200 HMIs
• Prepare the solution for reuse and document the remaining steps for automatic project generation

Your profile

• An interest in HMI usability and user-centred interface design
• Basic knowledge of Siemens TIA Portal
• Practical experience with PLC or HMI systems is preferred
• Good communication skills in English
• Affinity with both industrial automation and user interface design
• *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