Internship Lean Management & Value Stream (f/m/x)

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Internship
Posted Nov 10, 2026

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Skills

German
Project Management

Job description

Enabler for smaller, more powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips

Working for tomorrow today.

Around 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are produced using ZEISS technologies. As the centerpiece of every electronically controlled system, they have become an integral part of our everyday lives – whether in smartphones, smart homes or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and process control solutions, ZEISS enables the production of ever smaller, increasingly powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips, and thus plays a pivotal role in the age of micro- and nanoelectronics.

Your Role

With us, you have the opportunity to perfectly combine your studies with practical experience while actively contributing to exciting projects. This allows you to gain valuable skills, expand your network, and grow both professionally and personally.

•Analyse and understand: Organise relevant data, investigate questions and existing hypotheses, and identify potential solutions

•Drive improvements together: Work across disciplines with colleagues and experts from different functions, analyse processes on the shop floor, contribute to meetings and workshops, and support improvements through to implementation

•Apply methods effectively: Learn about lean management and project management methods and apply them to specific questions in a manufacturing environment

•Work with digital tools and AI: Use digital solutions and AI-powered tools to prepare and visualise data and findings efficiently

Your Experience

•You are studying a technical, digital or business-related subject and are interested in the interplay between people, processes, data and production operations

•You are curious and eager to learn, and want to build your knowledge of lean management, value streams and project management

•You take an analytical, structured approach to questions and are interested in data, performance metrics and how they relate to one another

•You enjoy working across disciplines, engage openly with different functions, and keep the practical use case and its benefits in mind

•You show initiative, focus on putting ideas into practice, and are interested in digitalisation, visualisation and AI

•Fluent in German, additional language skills are a plus

Sounds exciting? Then become part of #teamZEISS and help us shape the future! Please provide your complete application documents (CV, transcript of records, etc.).

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Verena Hald