Shaping the future of young professionals

Starting a career raises many questions: Which career path suits your passions and strengths? How do you build a strong professional network? What opportunities and prospects does the company offer? And how can potential be fully utilized? This is where Liebherrʼs Global Trainee Program comes in and offers young talents the unique opportunity to get to know the company from different perspectives, take charge of projects and expand their professional network.

The Liebherr Groupʼs Global Trainee Program started for the second time in fall 2024. For 18 months, participants can gain valuable practical experience in various departments. Experiences that help them to sharpen their overall view of Liebherr and improve their decision-making and organizational skills as well as their confidence in dealing with people and projects. Valuable qualities that are very important for later career orientation – especially if one aspires to a management position.

The program also offers the opportunity to gain international experience. This is often combined with a stay in another Liebherr division. This allows trainees to dive into international markets and gain insights into other product segments and their processes.

“During the exchange with colleagues from different areas and Liebherr divisions, you get a completely new understanding of the big picture and how the different departments work together in detail, but above all across the entire Group,” says Celine Baldauf. She is one of seven trainees at Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS. Since the start of the program, she has already gained insights into three different departments: from Corporate Communication and Corporate HR Marketing to the Market and Competition Strategy department.

Together with the other trainees, Celine was selected after a multi-stage selection process. Four trainees are from Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH (Germany) and three from Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS (France). Each of them has a different professional background. For this very reason, great importance is attached to the fact that the trainees themselves can choose and actively participate

in deciding, which departments they would like to visit during the program – depending on their interests and professional orientation and the relevant development steps towards their target position.

“We also attend seminars that shed more light on individual topics and thus promote our professional and personal development. For example, we receive intercultural training, learn how to resolve conflicts and how to communicate convincingly,” says Celine Baldauf. “Throughout our time as trainees, each one of us has an experienced mentor at our side who continuously guides and supports us at every stage of the program.”

Karina Sinz is head of the training center at Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH and accompanies the trainees at the site in Lindenberg. “The program offers young people the ideal introduction to an international and future-oriented professional life and sets the course for a successful long-term career,” she explains. “In order to ensure the best possible support for the trainees, the mentors and I stay in close contact with them, offering guidance and assistance throughout the program and promote their strengths and prepare them specifically for future challenges.”

With its wide range of opportunities and practical experience, Liebherrʼs Global Trainee Program lays a solid foundation for a successful and dynamic career. Trainees gain valuable skills and become an important part of a company that values innovation, collaboration and long-term growth.

Celine Baldauf will soon be heading to Newport News in the US-state of Virginia for her stay abroad. There she will gain new insights in the marketing as well as the logistic departments at Liebherr Mining Equipment Newport News Co. “Iʼm really looking forward to this stay. Every Liebherr company is different, when looking at the tasks as well as the organization, of course. Thatʼs what makes the program so exciting and varied.”