We believe in a sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future for dairy farmers by combining robotics, engineering, and in‑depth farming knowledge.
That belief started 75 years ago with the dream of two brothers in Maassluis. Since then, we have grown into an innovative global leader in automated systems for dairy farmers worldwide. With 2,500 specialised professionals, we continuously work on new agricultural revolutions. We still do this from our Campus in Maassluis, a building with the highest achievable sustainability performance in the Netherlands, and among the best worldwide. All with one clear goal: to make dairy farming an attractive profession for future generations.
During this internship, you will turn complex milking data into clear insights. You will create visualizations and perform statistical analyses to investigate whether milking performance has improved over time and under which conditions.
You will work closely with different stakeholders, such as data analysts, product specialists, and domain experts, to understand the right questions to ask and to ensure your analyses are relevant and actionable. This means translating business and farm questions into analytical approaches and explaining your results in a clear and convincing way.
A key part of your role is critical analysis on big data. You will assess data quality, challenge assumptions, validate findings, and reflect on limitations of the data and methods used. You will not just report results but actively think about what they mean in practice and how they can be improved.
Practical information:
As an intern, you will dive into live milking data coming straight from the Astronaut. Every single day, millions of milking records flow in from farms across the globe. During this internship, you will explore how this rich stream of data connects to real farm management practices. Your analysis will help uncover patterns, insights, and opportunities that can directly support farmers in improving their operations. How do you know whether any actions are for the better for the cow? There is no direct feedback, only signals hidden in data. Your task is to turn this data into meaningful insights to define what “better” really means from the cow’s perspective. You will be working on real-world data with real impact, on a global scale.
Requirements:
You will work in a collaborative international team of data analysts and farming experts, where data and domain knowledge come together. You can work from the office or choose a hybrid setup, depending on what suits you best.
See yourself in this role? Apply now via our website.
As an international family business in the agricultural sector, we spend every day making farmers’ lives easier with innovative solutions and tailored services. We offer solutions for almost all activities in the cowshed: from milking to cleaning. We provide advice on how to organise a dairy farm smartly with the use of management systems. Our vision and the needs and demands of our clients are the things that drive and inspire us.
Something we do since 1948, in this year brothers Cornelis en Arij van der Lely introduced the finger wheel rake to the market. One of our first inventions that made a substantial change in the traditional way of working on the farm. There were many more innovations with only one purpose making agrarian life easier and working together for a sustainable, profitable and enjoyable future in the agricultural sector.
