Intern - Cost & Value Engineering

A career at Lilium is for those who want to do something extraordinary. We take pride in pushing the boundaries of engineering, technology and customer experience.

As part of a team, you will tackle challenges and deliver something that has never been done before. By joining Lilium you will have the opportunity to work with a world-class entrepreneurial team of more than 800 people who are as passionate about changing the world as you are.

You will always act with safety and integrity in mind and embody our core behaviors of efficient and positive collaboration, ownership of time, continuous improvements and, ultimately delivering results.

We thrive on diversity and creating an inclusive culture, with more than 50 nationalities currently working hard to bring our vision of a sustainable world to life.

**Your role and your team**:
You will report directly to the Head of Cost and Value Engineering and work closely with Cost Engineering team. The Cost Engineering team is a strategy and project-based department within the Procurement division. It is responsible for cost calculations, support technical, commercial supplier discusions and cost improvements measures across all product development phases. This includes early-stage cost estimations, tradeoff-studies for design support, should-cost modeling, and design-to-cost related improvement activities.
In this role, you will support the Cost Engineering team with research of technical and commercial data in the fields of materials, process technologies, industrial equipment and financial analysis of Liliums supply chain. Furthermore, you will contribute to the operational activities and their implementation with internal and external stakeholders. One specific task/project will be the maintenance and improvement of the Cost Engineering databases.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join one of the fastest, most well-funded and exciting companies in the world and join the exciting journey of the Lilium Jet early in its inception phase. Our production organization aims to set new standards with a best-in
- class, digital production.

**Your Day to Day**:

- Work with Cost and Value Engineers
- Support the maturity of Cost Engineering core databases and datasets
- Perform analyses of raw material and technical equipment prices
- Research for country & supplier specific datasets (e.g. labor costs)
- Mapping of production processes for cycle time calculations and their technical constraints
- Creating cost estimations based on engineering data
- Contributing to Cost Engineering development projects
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders

**Your Profile**:

- You are a bachelor or master student (M/F/d) in production engineering, industrial engineering or a similar field
- Excellent academic track record and past industrial internships in related sectors such as manufacturing or consulting firms
- Basic understanding between production environment and its economic impact
- You have advanced MS Office skills, particularly Excel
- Programming knowledge is a nice to have plus (e.g. Python, VBA, Java)
- High level of self-reliance: work independently and be self-motivated
- Hands-on mentality
- Outstanding analytical skills with a drive to challenge the status quo
- Good communication and team working skills with an autonomous target-oriented workstyle
- Fluent in English, min. B1 level in German
- Available for a minimum of 6 months full time _(for intern only; nor applicable for working student)_
- #LI-SL1_

Want to know more? Then view our 'Why join Lilium' page

**Life at Lilium**:
The wellbeing of our employees is a high priority. In our HQ we have many initiatives such as free healthy food and drinks, free in-house gym and health days. In remote offices we offer online opportunities to stay connected and develop yourself as well including our culture club, learning terminal, Employee Assistance Program and many more.