Summer Intern – Dawson Group

The Dawson Group is a construction and transportation company that ranges between 600 to 700 employees seasonally – depending on the companies’ workload (awarded projects, seasonality with highway construction, winter snow plowing) and also normal turnover, we have many onboards and offboards in our organization each year. With many employees coming and going, it places a challenging burden on Support Services to manually ensure that all employees are consistently and completely onboarded. Though we have some processes in place, there are still occasional items missed on some employees and a lot of time and effort spent ensuring that onboards and offboards occur smoothly. The company’s Corporate division wishes to streamline and simplify the onboarding process, to lead to better outcomes for the business, and to free up support services’ time to focus on higher-value activities. Our business strategy includes Preparing for Growth, and bolstering Employee Engagement. By making improvements to our employee onboarding process, we believe we will run more efficiently and create a more positive experience from Day 1 with new employees joining (or re-joining seasonally) our company. Through innovation, we wish to apply workflow automation and a software tool that can allow the coordinated delivery of onboarding across multiple teams in our Corporate Services division – the requirements, design and development of such software innovation will be the focus of this intern project.

Faculty Supervisor:

Leanne Mihalicz

Student:

Partner:

Dawson Group

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Transportation and warehousing

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program: