Internship, Novelty Equipment Development

Job Description

Would you like to spend the spring semester of 2027 learning from a team of specialists at the heart of the LEGO Group? Use your engineering skills to translate creative design requirements into physical production equipment - and see how this equipment produces the decoration of the well-known LEGO® brick.

You will join our Engineering team which is responsible for developing processing production equipment to ensure that we can produce the decoration of new LEGO bricks with speed and efficiency. We also provide support and specialist knowledge to our global production sites to continuously improve and optimize our running production.

Core Responsibilities

• Assist in maturing concepts for new processing equipment in close cooperation with specialist team (Decoration Technician, Equipment Technician and Qualification Technicians), based on requirements from internal customers.
• Assist in Design, development, and tests of new processing equipment within current standards, guidelines, and machine platforms.
• Support in ensuring delivery of new equipment.
• Assist in follow-up on performance of new equipment (safe to operate, high quality, high stability, satisfying output, acceptable.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Processing is responsible for developing and manufacturing production equipment needed for processing of new LEGO Bricks with speed, effectiveness, and efficiency. This responsibility includes cooperating with Product Design organizations, other Engineering department as well as the global manufacturing sites. The organization is in total around 100 people working in different areas such as mechanical design, automation design and decoration development.

The role as Intern is supporting our ability to realize and produce new element (LEGO Brick) designs, which includes 1) decoration of the element, 2) factory assembly of the element, or 3) special handling of the element, needed for novelty LEGO Models. Furthermore, the role is supporting our ability to continuously offer high service, knowledge, and support towards Production to make sure that the equipment is running with high performance.

Do you have what it takes?

• It is a prerequisite that you are enrolled in an educational institution, and the Internship must be meritorious as part of the education.
• Minimum bachelor’s degree or +3 years technical trainee program within Mechanical Engineering, Technical Product Design and Development, or similar engineering field.
• Experiences in using 3D CAD software (preferable Siemens NX).
• Experience in working with 2D drawings - technical specification and documentation.
• Theoretical understanding of mechanics, technical design principles and materials.
• Some experience in working with product or equipment development processes.
• Flair for technical problem solving.
• Strong desire for technical solutions and problem solving.
• Understanding of material science.
• Preferable understanding of production machines and machine design/development.
• English at fluent level is required as this is the standard office language.

Nice to have:

• Preferable understanding of production machines and machine design/development.
• Preferable understanding of production processes.
• Preferable knowledge of injection moulding and/or mould design/manufacturing.
• Preferable knowledge of equipment/machine manufacturing (including 3D printing technology).

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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