Intern, Digital Shipyards

Seaspan Seeking Intern, Digital Shipyards for immediate hire. Accepting applications from all groups. Through the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS), the Government of Canada has embarked on one of the largest procurement projects since the Second World War. The NSS is a nation-building effort to create a sustainable Canadian shipbuilding industry, secure long-term job opportunities and build the next generation of ships for the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy. Through its NSS-related work, Seaspan Shipyards is owning the redevelopment of our domestic shipbuilding industry on the West Coast and delivering on the promise of ships built in Canada, by Canadians.

As an Intern, Digital Shipyards as part of the Digital Shipyards Architecture team, you will be working exclusively with Shipyards and WashCorp IT (Shared Services) on IT and business projects. Each of these projects deliver scopes of our integral business process with their connected solutions. To be able to manage all these process flows, Seaspan is using our Enterprise Architecture tooling ARIS of Software AG. As our overall architecture model is maturing it is required to improve our process model according to our standards and future process end state. The assignment will primarily focus on process flow mapping and documentation, process gap analysis, standard operating procedure documentation, data quality analysis and updates and testing support, the intern will support these mission critical projects to achieve their objectives and commitments to the business.

Seaspan’s Digital Shipyards Architecture team is primarily responsible for mapping out Seaspan Business Processes towards the technology landscape including applications, infrastructure and data model, considering the business strategy, capabilities and organization structure with its roles and responsibilities. The team is working on many technologies centered projects including the Digital Transformation Program which is driving to delivering new capabilities to deliver our first-class shipbuilding programs such as the Polar Icebreaker as the Multi Purpose Vessels (MPV).

Note: Due to business needs, this position is required to be fully on-site based at 889 Harbourside Dr, North Vancouver.

What you’ll do

• Working closely with the Business Architect, Business Analyst and selected business stakeholders, to help assess and document process gaps, make process change recommendations to meet project requirements; make related changes to standard operating procedures.
• Participate in needed data cleansing efforts by conducting data analysis for quality and completeness; contribute to the clean-up effort by making required data entry updates.
• Collect and analyze process data to initiate, develop and recommend business practices and procedures that focus on increased productivity.
• Under the guidance of a Business Architect, Senior Solution Architect and/or Business Analyst, document process flows in ARIS according to the process modeling standards, reviewing outputs with associated teams for accuracy.
• Under the guidance of a Senior Business Analyst and Data Architect, work with business stakeholders to document data definitions and produce a data dictionary that will support process flows, along with training and reporting preparations.

What you’ll bring

• Enrollment in a Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or completion of a Post-secondary Diploma in Computer Science.
• A good communicator with strength in collaboration and relationship building, maintains a healthy, open and trusting workplace, with integrity and accountability.
• With a passion for service excellence and business enablement, working to develop skills that will deliver on work products that provide measureable business benefit.
• A keen interest in how business works; continually develops business acumen through learning and training.
• An interest and some exposure to Organizational Change Management, Project Management and Process Improvement principles.

Why you’ll love working here

• A supportive learning environment, great team culture and hands-on experience and training.
• Opportunity to grow your career and connect with like-minded students.
• Parking is included and to assist those that are using transit, we operate a complimentary shuttle bus Monday through Friday with various pick up and drop off points around North Vancouver.

Start Date of Internship: September 3rd 2024

End Date of Internship: December 20th, 2024

Application Closing Date: Thursday June 13, 2024 at 11:59pm PST. Please note: if we receive a large volume of applications, we may need to close this posting ahead of the closing date, therefore, we recommend applying early. Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.

To learn more about our InternSHIP Program, visit our website: www.seaspan.com/internships-at-seaspan/

Seaspan’s Internships are 4 months in duration. We require a full-time commitment Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week with an hourly rate of $26.00/hour.

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