No question: It can be quite challenging for high school students to choose the right apprenticeship. WEFA’s student internship program can help you decide on your future profession. You get to know the company and our apprentices and can find out about the different professions WEFA offers. It’s a great opportunity to gain new and exciting experience and also to ask the trainers and other apprentices any questions you may have. You also get to know what qualifications you might need if you want to do your apprenticeship at WEFA. We provide professional orientation to students at the German Realschule (BORS), Gymnasium (BOGY) or the Gemeinschaftsschule.

You have the following options:

Commercial office tasks:
If you have good organizational skills, are strong in math, German and English, you would be a good candidate for one of our commercial internships. These internships introduce you to modern communication tools and digital office technology. You also help your team by making sure that the numbers are correct. These internships prepare you for the following professions:

• Industrial manager (m/f/d) with / without additional qualifications in international management
• IT specialist (m/f/d) specialized in system integration

Technology:
If you’re more into drilling, filing, mechatronics or IT, and you’re good in math and physics too, then a technical internship would be a perfect fit. Depending on the department you are assigned to, you have the possibility of learning different methods in our training workshop. Here you will work independently on projects as well as in teams. These internships prepare you for the following professions:

• Industrial mechanic (m/f/d)
• Cutting machine operator (m/f/d)
• Mechatronics engineer (m/f/d)
• Technical product designer (m/f/d)
• Machine and plant operator (m/f/d)

It’s important for us that you are:

• enthusiastic and like to learn
• really interested in the profession you chose to learn
• ideally already informed about our company

Internships at WEFA can be quite valuable - Particularly for you! Because we invest in your training while focusing on your future: Many of our interns end up working for us later on. What’s also in your study guidelines: You can do the following internships at WEFA:

Mandatory internships /voluntary internships:
Get to know the working process in a department, work independently on tasks and small projects, and become part of the department team (duration: 3-6 months).

Technical research study:
Here you have the opportunity to work independently on a research project after the topic has been defined together with the department. If you’re doing the work in-house at WEFA, the project steps are clarified directly with your department staff. During this time (one complete school year), you will have a personal advisor from the department to bounce ideas off of.

This is what you bring to the job:

You have the theoretical background in this technical area and a good grade point average. We’re also looking for the following qualities:

• Flexibility and commitment
• Social skills and ability to work well in teams
• Openness to cultural differences
• Good English skills - and other foreign languages