Solutions Intern

Organisations don't innovate, people do.   

As part of our digital transformation business, you’ll help clients unlock innovation, embrace the future and change communities for good. 

And we’ll help you stimulate new thinking, accelerate your career and connect you to projects that really matter. 

Join our team of over 600 data scientists, design thinkers, immersive digital consultants, project managers and innovators, all working to create positive change for generations to come.

Who are we looking for? 

At GHD we are looking for our next Solutions Intern, to join the Data Management team, in our Detroit office. In this role, you will conduct organizational studies and evaluations, design systems and procedures, conduct work simplification and measurement studies, and prepare operations and procedures manuals to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively. Includes program analysts and management consultants.

Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:

• Database Specifications: Provide information and comments on suitability during the approval process for database specifications to ensure all agreed standards and protocols are followed and data integrity is preserved.
• Business Requirements Identification: Support collection of business requirements using document analysis and workflow analysis to express requirements clearly and succinctly.
• Documentation and Backup: Draft and maintain basic technical and/or user documentation to a high standard, and create backup files to ensure instant recovery if problems occur.
• Culture of Innovation: Support a culture of innovation by contributing to solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration; help in setting up and monitoring idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.
• Personal Capability Building: Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching. Develop and maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Business Case: Contribute information and analysis to support the development and review of business cases.
• Analysis of "As Is" and "To Be": Support and contribute to the documentation of "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability to record accurately the change required.
• Feasibility Studies: Contribute to and support feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective, and document findings.
• Enterprise Business Analysis: Identify opportunities for process or procedural improvement, and design improved solution alternatives.
• Application Software Development: Contribute to development of existing and new applications by carrying out straightforward, well-defined basic programming, design, and coding activities under close supervision.
• Data Collection and Analysis: Collate and analyze data using preset tools, methods, and formats. Involves working independently.
• Requirements Management: Identify, elicit, and document user/project requirements, using appropriate modeling technique, if required. Analyze requirements and validate with original users, eliminating confusion. Outline verification criteria to ensure requirements are met. Maintain documentation and traceability throughout project.
• Horizon Scanning: Explore and develop a basic understanding of external developments or emerging issues.

What you will bring to the Team

Education

• Enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s in science or construction related.

Experience

• General Experience: No experience required.

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As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, national origin, sex (including same sex), sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, age, disability or handicap, citizenship status, service member status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.