Intern Factory Operations & Automation (m/f/d)

SAEKI - Manufacturing at software speed

The Role

What We're Looking For

• Technical background: You're studying mechatronics, mechanical engineering, production or automation engineering, or something comparable — or you hold an equivalent technical qualification. Experience with additive manufacturing, CNC, or PLCs is a plus, not a requirement.
• Systems thinking: You see more than the individual machine — you see the chain before and after it, and you spot where it jams.
• Practical ability: You're comfortable with tools and enjoy working with your hands. A factory under construction is not a pure desk job.
• Care and stamina: You work precisely, document cleanly, and stay focused even when the work gets tedious.
• Initiative: You don't wait for instructions — you recognise what needs doing and take it on.
• Commissioning: You support the installation and commissioning of SLS systems, CNC machines, and peripherals — from delivery through to the first approved part.
• Automation: You help set up automation cells and handling solutions, test them, and work on making them reliable.
• Defining workflows: You develop procedures for production, post-processing, and quality assurance — and write them up so they work at the next site without you.
• Process data: You help define which production and quality data we capture, and use it to make bottlenecks and scrap causes visible.
• Improvement: You bring your own ideas forward and implement them. If you see a better solution here, you get to build it.
• Location: Based in Munich (on-site at Factory ONE).
• Language: Fluent German; good English skills are a plus.

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What we're not looking for

• People who need clearly bounded tasks. In a factory under construction, priorities shift week to week — that's the price of getting real responsibility early.
• Pure theorists. What counts here is what comes off the end of the line.

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What we offer

• Internship: 3–6 months, full-time
• Working student: minimum 6 months, approx. 20 hrs/week (more during semester breaks by arrangement)
• Start: immediately
• Mission: Rebuild the industrial sovereignty of the West. You'll work with state-of-the-art industrial SLS systems and be part of a team spanning production, software, robotics, and automation.
• Ownership from day one: You get real responsibility early on, and the opportunity to grow with the company.
• The environment: A data-driven production environment with state-of-the-art manufacturing technology and short decision paths.
• The team: Close collaboration with our software, robotics, and engineering teams. "Special Forces" model — everyone ships, no politics, no bureaucracy. Direct feedback, high standards.
• Compensation: Market-standard salary.
• Location: Factory ONE in the east of Munich.

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Apply

• Resume: Show us what you've worked on in practice so far.
• Cover letter: Why this mission? Why now? From when, and for how long?

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