Career portal of GEA Group

Energize your Career!

GEA Group provides ambitious university graduates with the opportunity to join an international operating organization. A trainee program, offered for both commercial and engineering fields, aim at preparing graduates for future management tasks in an innovative and internationally challenging environment.

We are looking for young talents with integrity, the willingness to take on responsibility, the ambition to continuously improve skills, the pleasure on exchange of knowledge and experiences across borders, cultures and segments and most importantly the passion for what they are doing.

During a period of 18 months, trainees rotate between different locations in Europe and abroad. While gaining hands-on experience on the job, young professionals are challenged to take the lead for own projects and, thus, continuously receive the opportunity to develop and demonstrate their abilities and skills.

You can start a trainee program in the following areas in October 2011:

• Human Resources
• Ideas and Improvement Management
• Diversity Management
• Marketing
• Corporate Development
• Procurement
• Tax
• Process technology

Please note: Engineering trainee programs are offered in our segments only.

The following chart will give you an overview about possible phases of our trainee program which are accompanied by review dialogs and development measures:

Our traineeships have a modular structure consisting of learning units within our Headquarters, our Segment Headquarters or a foreign entity. Thus, we consider our traineeships as learning on the job. The number of the phases as well as the duration however may vary depending on the area of the trainee program.

Furthermore, all trainees receive training to improve their skills on “international presentations” during their employment. In case learning units in one of our foreign entities require additional cultural and/or language training, there will be a preparation in advance.

Trainees get supported in building up an international network among themselves as well as with former trainees by the realization of additional cross-segmental trainee projects, a common visitation of a GEA booth at a trade fair and a central kick-off-event. Former trainees offer sponsorship so that a mutual exchange of experiences gets encouraged.

Moreover production facility visitations and product trainings including information about the sales process provide our trainees an insight into the portfolio of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft.