What's the role?
Are you interested to learn about leading a global manufacturing organization? We have an open position for an intern or thesis student in the Global Smart Factory team in Schaan (Liechtenstein). Help us to implement our strategy for our plants worldwide and to push overarching topics for process innovation and industry 4.0. We offer you to write the master thesis in this topic or do an internship for 6 months or more. We care to make sure that such an internship becomes an important step to develop your personal career.
Start of internship is flexible on student's availability, duration at least 6 months.
Who is Hilti?
For the sixth time in the past 11 years, Hilti has been named one of the best employers by Great Place to Work.
What began as a family business in 1941, founded by brothers Eugene and Martin Hilti, has become a leading industry player with over 120 locations worldwide and a workforce of more than 33,000 colleagues. Our incredible journey, from humble beginnings to a global powerhouse, is a shining example of the rewards of a hard-working and dedicated team.
At Hilti, we provide leading-edge tools, technologies, software, and services for the global construction industry and beyond. Our purpose is making construction better based on a passionate and inclusive global team and a caring and performance-oriented culture.
We invest a substantial amount of our annual profit to the Hilti Foundation, which focuses on initiatives that empower people to live independently and autonomously, contribute to building stronger societies, and create networks of competent partners to achieve sustainable and scalable impact.
What does the role involve?
In the Global Smart Factory team, you will work on the development, implementation and shaping of strategic topics and global processes for the global manufacturing organization. You will learn how to work with modern project management approaches like Scrum. Driving the implementation of strategic initiatives, you will contribute to improve our processes, our global production footprint and network, as well as our operational excellence initiative. With your communicational and organizational skills, you will help us to coordinate these activities globally. Your strategic thinking and your ability to create new concepts and ideas will help us to develop our strategic initiatives further.
You will work closely with international leaders and experts on a daily base. Additionally, you get the opportunity to write your master thesis within the context of your work.
CAREER - 80% of our entry positions at Headquarters are filled with interns. It’s testament to how much we value, develop and look after our people.
What do we offer?
Show us what you’re made of and we’ll offer you opportunities to move around the business – to work abroad, experience different job functions and tackle different markets. It’s a great way to find the right match for your ambitions and achieve the exciting career you’re after.
We have a very thorough people review process, unlike any we know of in any other business. We screen everyone in the company in a yearly career performance matching process. It means we can pair talent with opportunities - developing our people in their current roles or challenging them to work in new ways or in new places. It’s how we find the right fit and further our teams personally and professionally.
Additionally, we offer you a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits, these may include day care for your kids or a free in-house gym.
What you need is:
- Enrollment in a Master’s program with a technical or economic background for the entire internship duration
- You are self-motivated, responsible and strive to achieve goals
- Enthusiasm to learn and high commitment to results
- Excellent communication skills, with fluency in English (German and other languages can be a plus)
- Good IT Skills such as MSOffice (Programming or other IT skills can be a plus)
Why should you apply?
Joining more than 2100 colleagues from over 70 nationalities at one of our headquarters locations in Schaan, Nendeln, or Buchs is more than a career move. It’s your opportunity to enjoy the energizing, alpine lifestyle - where Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland seamlessly meet.
Share your interests and become a part of one of our employee groups leading change locally, for example, supporting female empowerment or the LGBTQ+ community or joining a leisure group for a Wednesday mountain bike ride or tennis match. If you are passionate about giving back to the community, we have various opportunities to volunteer through our engaged beyond business program locally and internationally.
Additional benefits of our headquarters location include shared e-bikes for your commute, an on-site gym, three restaurants, language courses, learning and development training opportunities, tax insurance, financial guidance, child care, relocation and spousal support, and more.
Hilti is an equal opportunity employer.
We take our time to get to know you. As part of your recruitment process, you’ll get to talk to your internship coach as well as your HR Manager who both can answer some of your burning questions.
