Opportunities await comitted employees
Whether pupils or students, junior or senior professionals, our Group provides an appropriate challenge for everyone. A demanding job combined with sufficient leeway for independent working guarantees numerous learning opportunities and on the job training. You too can become part of our team and be inspired by our experienced 3814 employees and managers throughout the world!
Our international team
Our sites scattered across the globe in Europe, North America and Asia, and our numerous sales and service points, are both a challenge and an opportunity. They stimulate global communication, an international exchange of information, and learning across national boundaries.
An international company does not just mean sites all over the world, it also and most importantly stands for the differences, variety and contrasts that enrich collaborative working every single day. Various company events also provide the opportunity to grow together through shared experiences.
Our divisions
Our engineers are not the only ones working hard on the product so that we can continue impressing our customers with top quality and cutting-edge technology. The collaboration between the different divisions is also essential. In keeping with the motto "Individually in a small team, collectively with other divisions", the following eight divisions in our Group work together for the success of the company: Production, Research and Development, Customer Service, IT, Quality, Supply Chain Management, Sales & Marketing and Administration.
Unsolicited application
Have you not found the offer you were looking for? Simply apply online. Your application will be examined at group level. Apply here!
Stage
If you want to do filing and make coffee, go elsewhere. With us, you are part of the team and, as such, will be entrusted with challenging work. Independent working is combined with professional support from experts in the particular field. In this way, we guarantee that our trainees gather informative experience and gain a realistic insight into everyday working life. 96% of our trainees would re-apply. For many of them, the traineeship is the springboard to a career in our Group. Get to know our divisions and apply here for a internship.
Thesis
A successful course of study ends with writing a final paper. With us, you benefit from close proximity to field work, the products and our specialists. We work together with you to develop an exciting topic and ensure that you have suitably qualified, specialist support. You also gain an insight into our Group and learn more about the specialist field. We are also happy if suggestions come from you. Get to know our divisions and send your application to us here.
Vocational training
If you complete your vocational training at LEITNER, you can already expect existing and challenging fields of activity from your first working day onwards. The vocational training programme is comprised of a combination of school attendance and in-house training. You will be professionally supervised by our experts in the company.
Become part of our team and discover the many opportunities that await you now!
As an apprentice you will immerse yourself in the versatile world of LEITNER electrical engineering. In our electrical assembly department, you will learn how to properly wire switch cabinets for ropeways, snow-making systems and wind turbines. In hardware planning, you can design electrical circuit diagrams and technical drawings as well as calculate specifications.
Furthermore, you will have the opportunity to be involved in the electrical commissioning of our systems in various countries. In our software development department, you will also learn how to program the system controls and get to know the latest software solutions for our customers. After the four-year apprenticeship, a transfer and further development in the following departments is possible:
- Electrical assembly
- Hardware design
- Software design
- Commissioning
- Electrical Service
Development opportunities:
Electrical drawer, commissioning engineer, software developer
As an apprentice warehouse keeper, you are responsible for the organization and handling of all kinds of goods in our storage areas. You will receive deliveries of goods, check the quantity and any transport damage and ensure the corresponding material movements in our warehouse management software (SAP). You place the goods into stock and deliver them to the right place at the right time when ordered. For this we use utilities such as pallet trucks, forklifts and cranes. In our shipping department you will also learn how to pack and load our manufactured components for customers all over the world in a way that is suitable for transport. After the three-year apprenticeship, you can work in the following departments:
- Incoming goods
- Warehouse
- Internal transport
- Service warehouse
- Shipment
Development opportunities:
Warehouse management, external logistics, further training as Material and Demand Planner
As a mechatronics apprentice, you build mechanical and electrical components for our production, which you combine into complex systems. Your tasks also include the commissioning of electrical machines and devices, as well as the maintenance and servicing of our company-specific systems.
After the two-year basic training, you can specialize in production engineering or automation for a period of 1.5 years. For all those who would like to expand their knowledge, there is the possibility of choosing an additional module (PLC technology or robotics) for further six months of apprenticeship. After the apprenticeship period, employment in the following areas is possible:
- In all production areas
- Chair assembly
- Terminal assembly
- Hood assembly
- Snow cannon assembly
- Electrical assembly
- In machine production
Development opportunities:
Commissioning engineer, research & development, field service technician, quality representative
As a mechanical engineering apprentice, you will learn the basic skills of metalworking and experience the different areas of ropeway production. You will produce machine parts using the latest technologies, such as CNC machines and welding robots, and assemble modules and ropeway components. The basis for this is being able to read technical drawings. During your varied apprenticeship, you will also learn how to program our CNC milling and turning machines with CAD/CAM systems. Thanks to the versatile training, all paths in our production are open to you after the apprenticeship. For example, it is possible to be taken on in the following departments:
- Assembly
- Individual manufacture
- Welding
- Machining
- Prototype construction
- Quality assurance
Development opportunities:
Production planning, technical office, industrial engineering
Job profiles
A multitude of innovative improvements, high quality standards and technical novelties guarantee our customers’ complete satisfaction with our products. We are responsible for ropeway installations in the alpine and urban area as well as wind turbines internationally. After commissioning, our team takes over the installation and acts as the interface between the company and the customer, offering a varied working day. Working in customer service you can not only assist customers with various technical and organizational issues but you can also prove your sales talent. The range of tasks is broad: In addition to handling enquiries in the area of spare parts, revisions and conversions, you will also have the opportunity to further your education internally and to get to know our customers and their plants on site.
The Electrical Engineering department offers you a wide range of applications in the world of ropeway systems and wind turbines. In the hardware design department you can develop electrotechnical specifications, put the systems into operation worldwide or carry out the electrotechnical maintenance of the systems at customers' sites all over the world. In software development you program the system control and develop customer-oriented and state-of-the-art web solutions. As a Project Manager, you not only keep an eye on your projects throughout the entire project phases with regard to deadlines and costs, but will also be the central contact person for internal and external partners.
As an IT technician in the support team, you will support your employees from all specialist areas in hardware and software matters. Your tasks also include the installation of these, as well as the handling of various order processes in order to create optimum conditions for all teams at all locations of the group.
As a project engineer, you are responsible for the technical planning of ropeway projects worldwide. Each system is unique and tailored to meet individual requirements. In this interface function, you will accompany and support the teams from the construction, electrical engineering and site management departments during the installation of the system. You will be responsible for liaising with customers and authorities, preparing approval documents and following the project through to internal testing and official acceptance.
In purchasing, you are responsible for planning and implementing the entire purchasing process for high-quality components. In an international environment you will conduct price negotiations and ensure that production can work with high quality raw materials on time.
This work requires a high level of technical knowledge, flexibility, organisational talent and teamwork. The activities in this ultra-modern field are very varied. Here a great many different and highly complex individual components for the cable cars are milled and turned. The qualitative requirements in terms of dimensional accuracy and adherence to tight tolerances are extremely high and therefore work must be carried out very accurately and cleanly.
In the production department you can experience the different areas of ropeway manufacturing and, using the latest technologies such as CNC machines or welding robots, you can produce machine components, assemble subassemblies as well as ropeway components or carry out the electrical wiring of the switch cabinets. Strict quality standards must be maintained. Along the supply chain, associated departments such as production and material planning, quality control and construction site management control and support the manufacturing process up to commissioning of the ropeways at customers throughout the world.
