Internship Operational Excellence and Lean Management Internship start: September 2026 or by arrangement, duration: 6 months
Required skills
Job description
Lufthansa Technik published this listing. We've added our own working-student context below — what this role means for your weekly hours, take-home pay and student visa as a student in Hamburg, Germany.
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Description provided by Lufthansa Technik
Tasks
You will support our team in transforming the Aircraft Components Services division as part of a major operational excellence program and can make an immediate contribution. In your daily work, you will benefit from flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely.
- You work hands-on in agile projects in the Operational Excellence environment to optimize production, logistics and IT processes
- You will develop measures as part of a team, proactively contribute ideas and take responsibility for your own work packages at an early stage
- You carry out process analyses and prepare workshops with the specialist departments
- You support project and program management and learn directly from experienced colleagues
- You apply your energy where you can make the greatest contribution with your talents and shape your own topics such as the application of artificial intelligence, PowerBI, process mining and many more
- You actively participate in our feedback culture and continuously develop yourself through direct mentoring support
- Special deals with selected partners
- Cafeteria
- Free parking
- Flexible working hours
- Employee events
- Company sports / gym
- Subsidized public transport
- Studies in at least the 3rd semester in industrial engineering, business informatics, mechanical engineering, business administration, business psychology or similar
- Enrollment for the entire duration of the internship (current enrollment certificate and written proof of mandatory internship must be enclosed) or internship between Bachelor's and Master's degree (Gap Year)
- Initial experience in the areas of production processes, operational excellence, lean management and project management desirable
- Confident handling of MS Office, especially PowerPoint and Excel
- High degree of initiative, hands-on mentality and willingness to learn
- Analytical thinking and a conceptual way of working round off your profile
- Communication and team skills, organizational talent
Working student essentials
What this Operations internship in Hamburg means for you — pay rules, social contributions, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Internships have no 20-hour cap, but a voluntary internship longer than three months generally has to pay at least the German minimum wage. Mandatory internships in your study programme are exempt.
Working student rulesSocial contributions
Mandatory internships are largely exempt from social contributions. Voluntary internships are treated like regular employment once they run long enough, so contributions usually apply.
Check your insuranceInternational students
Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.
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