Specialist Departments at MAHLE

Among 16 research and development centers around the world, we set technical standards with future-orientated solutions that delight our customers.

Our Main Areas of Focus:

• Research and Advance Development

Our creative think-tank monitors future developments for the entire MAHLE Group. We examine the technical feasibility of new technologies, products and processes. These include strategic development projects. To assist this challenge, we are looking for creative, future-orientated and flexible employees with broad knowledge and a very strong understanding of physics.

• Product / Process Pre-Development and Product Development - our core businesses.

In Product / Process Development, we plan and develop innovative prototypes for the product generation after next, as well as product and process concepts for production-ready components and components that will determine our future success in the market. Here, too, we would like to meet experts in the engineering profession who would like to drive innovation forward using creativity and skill.

Our Product Development department needs pragmatic people - experts - who can come up with customer solutions in series production. Within this department, we develop and perfect, prior to series production, products and processes that can be placed directly into service. We rely on engineers with impressive specialized knowledge, customer orientation and assertiveness.

Technical Sales

From inception of an idea to series production-readiness and beyond - our Technical Sales department supports the entire development process, as well as the life cycle of our products, both in-house and externally. This department functions as the interface between individual business units, factories and regions; and also serves as a local point of contact for our customers.

We service our major customers individually with Global Key Account Managers and regional competence teams on site. The wide range of functions requier a high level of technical understanding and the ability to explain complex issues.

For Technical Sales, we seek engineers, industrial engineers and business people who can approach people openly; bring requisite specialist knowledge with them and who can achieve our financial targets in a goal-orientated way. At the same time, these individuals should drive processes forward and ensure that goals are achieved for our customers.

From inception of an idea to series production-readiness and beyond - our Technical Sales department supports the entire development process, as well as the life cycle of our products, both in-house and externally. This department functions as the interface between individual business units, factories and regions; and also serves as a local point of contact for our customers.

We service our major customers individually with Global Key Account Managers and regional competence teams on site. The wide range of functions requier a high level of technical understanding and the ability to explain complex issues.

For Technical Sales, we seek engineers, industrial engineers and business people who can approach people openly; bring requisite specialist knowledge with them and who can achieve our financial targets in a goal-orientated way. At the same time, these individuals should drive processes forward and ensure that goals are achieved for our customers.

160 Production Sites, Five Continents, One Standard our modern, efficient production processes around the world enable ergonomic series production at the highest level. We manufacture innovative products for our business departments, as well as for various profit centers, such as Engineering Services, Motorsports, and Special Applications

Each production unit is comprised of an independent team. This team consists of workers, skilled workers and specialists as well as supporters, who are drawn, for example from Quality Assurance Prototype Construction, and Logistics departments. Our products are manufactured in modern manufacturing facilities, configured precisely for Production. We are proud to observe the highest quality standards..

For Production, we are looking for motivated, technically interested employees who value working on a variety of tasks.

Our employees in Controlling support the decision-making of everyone entrusted with operational responsibility, as an equal partner. Starting with the Plant Controller, through state and regional Controllers, every company and every business department has its own Controller. With know-how and an understanding of technology and operational processes, they have skills at every level.

We are looking for employees who have a grasp of numbers and an understanding of business relationships. In addition, they should be interested in our technology. That is the only way they would be able to understand our work as a company and become true partners for our management echelon.

As global market leaders, our Buyers develop, coordinate and implement the best global merchandise group strategies. Procurement market, price and value analysis, national and international negotiations are carried out and development projects supported with great accuracy, all of which is done in close collaboration with other departments, such as Development and Production.

In Europe our Production Material Buyers operate among different merchandising groups. With the support of Supplier Management, they ensure optimal selection of suppliers and develop these relationships. This aides in ensuring smooth supply availability and delivery to our production locations. In addition, by means of forward sourcing activities implemented in close coordination with the development departments, Purchasing is responsible for ensuring competent suppliers are always available for any new or upgraded products.

Non-Production Purchasing ensures that the right contractual conditions are in place and that service delivery meets our expectations of quality - from services to office equipment to the production locations. In some cases, contracts and negotiations can be conducted globally, regionally or at national level.

In the Purchasing department, new employees can expect to be given exciting tasks in an international environment. Our work is project- and team-orientated; and of course, we use state-of-the-art procurement tools, such as SAP, e-catalogue management and online auctions.

In Logistics, we design the entire value chain: from the customer to the supplier, from the inquiry to the quote. We create individual logistic concepts which accompany the projects, from selection of the production site through to the beginning of series production. We do this at every site around the world.

We assist major logistics projects at our factories when it comes to production location and layout planning, materials flow and storage planning and supply and disposal systems. We support the corresponding implementation processes with efficient project management and controlling. In areas involving specialized expertise, such as strategic planning, supply chain management and production logistics and warehouse logistics, these challenges offer a large dose of autonomy, as well as considerable responsibility, to the individual worker.

We offer new colleagues a logistics network where he or she can rely on strong knowledge and many years of experience. Our employees take on responsibility for important projects throughout a wide variety of global locations.

From the successful recruitment and selection of personnel through employee development, employee retention and promotion of existing talent - the competence of the HR department is crucial to achieving our long-term corporate goals. After all, our employees are the guarantors of our success.

Within the Human Resources department, we offer entry opportunities including administrative and operational staff, talent management, employee learning and development, payroll, employee benefits, recruiting and personnel marketing, opportunities for international assignments amongst other areas. A high level of professional and interpersonal skills, are a mandatory requirement that you should bring with you. After all, varied tasks and a lot of responsibility await you, as well a variety of career opportunities, including across national borders.

As part of our Human Resources team, you must be committed to project collaboration and exchange of experiences with domestic and foreign colleagues. Our globally valid standards and procedures ensure uniform processes.

At MAHLE, there are a multitude of other exciting areas in which you can use your knowledge and experience to contribute to the success of the company. For example, in order to optimize our processes, open up new markets or introduce new products, techniques and processes, both in-house and for our customers. With innovative ideas, creative employees and sophisticated solutions.

The work at MAHLE is diverse. In this way, we offer employees genuine challenges in the variety of areas and challenges that they can continuously grow with. Our employees are given enough autonomy to put their own ideas into practice, both nationally and internationally.