Siemens - Project management intern

We are Siemens

Siemens Digital Industries Software is a leading provider of solutions for the design, simulation, and manufacture of products across many different industries. Formula 1 cars, skyscrapers, ships, space exploration vehicles, and many of the objects we see in our daily lives are being conceived and manufactured using our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.

We are an international team of creative problem solvers, strong data analytics and visual thinking. The mission of the Project Management Office is to support Siemens continued commitment to Development Excellence by ensuring that our products meet the functional, performance, reliability, and usability requirements of our users.

Our team works throughout the Project and Application Lifecycle to assist with the coordination, scheduling, and guidance in projects and programs for the products we produce. The Project Management Office also provides guidance in achieving the company’s overall process excellence, software development goals, project management best practices, and appropriate standards to support these.

We have a relaxed and flexible working atmosphere and a culture of mutual respect and shared responsibility for getting the job done. We enjoy our work because of the substantial technical and creative, and because it is an excellent place for growth.

Here is a link of successful project done by the team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD13FtpihcU

What we’re looking for

As part of the team, you will work under a Project Manager and assist with tasks such as data collection, analysis, and preparing strategic reports. Work will include supporting with the migration of our different JIRA instances to the cloud version of JIRA. This requires an understanding and working with Power BI, Jira and JQL, and possibly Tableau. 

What you’ll be doing

This is a project management internship and will last for 6 months. This internship will provide the opportunity to learn about Project Management and Industrial Software Development. Based in Prague, Czech Republic, you will work on projects that will give you hands-on experience with innovative software development tools, project management methodology, business analysis, quality assurance and organizational change. The opportunity will allow you to sharpen your communication and problem-solving skills in a business environment. 

You will help with maintaining and extending our cloud version of Atlassian JIRA. A meaningful amount of effort will be required to enhance the dashboards and metric tools that are currently deployed on the existing JIRA projects. These dashboards combine data from agile epics and stories from several projects via customized queries, to present them in overviews for overall management. This requires an understanding and working with Power BI, Jira and JQL, and possibly Tableau. 

General Responsibilities

• Support project managers in handling schedules and milestones
• Assisting with documentation and other project deliverables
• Identifying and managing constraints, risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, documenting risk mitigation plans
• Coordinating activities between project team members and stakeholders 
• Contribute to the reporting of project status