Start your career at BioNTech!
Are you ready to support us in taking on some of the world’s most pressing health challenges? We offer a range of entry opportunities for students and recent graduates. We are looking for ambitious talents in research and development, production and in the commercial, technical and IT areas.
Whether you are looking for an apprenticeship, a university internship, a working student position or a partner for your thesis or PhD. Take the opportunity to become one of our pioneers!
Your future at BioNTech
Apprenticeships at BioNTech
What are you passionate about?
Do you like science and want to work with our research teams? Would you prefer work experience in the commercial sector or in IT?
Whether you want to join our IT department, start a career as a biology lab technician or as an industrial clerk – we currently offer exciting apprenticeships across four different specializations.
Benefits of an apprenticeship at BioNTech:
- Get valuable support from trainers, training managers, mentors, and other apprentices, both in-person and virtually
- Attend regular get-togethers for all trainees such as our monthly virtual trainee lunch or our quarterly hotel-afternoon
- Receive intensive training at external academies in addition to vocational school
- Support your development with the digital learning platforms we work with
- Receive separate material and an online course to prepare for exams
- Exchange ideas with employees from other BioNTech locations in Germany
Learn more about the individual specializations and training courses:
During your apprenticeship you will learn the following:
- Plan and organize work processes
- Work on business management topics in all functions of the company (financing, investments, profitability, cost planning, analysis and tracking, etc.)
- Processing accounting transactions
- Evaluate key figures and statistics to monitor success and control operational processes
- Applying methods and tools for recruiting and selecting personnel
- Planning personnel deployment and processing personnel administration tasks
- Use of foreign language documents
- Corresponding and communicating in typical situations in a foreign language
- Working in a team and in projects within the framework of business processes using current information, communication and media technologies
During your training you will learn the following:
- Designing and implementing IT systems
- Installing and configuring networks
- Administering IT systems
- Operating IT systems
- Commissioning storage solutions
- Programming software solutions
- Planning, preparing and carrying out work tasks in coordination with customer-specific business and service processes
- Informing and advising customers
- Assessing marketable IT systems and customer-specific solutions
- Developing, creating and maintaining IT solutions
- Carrying out and documenting quality assurance measures
- Implementing, integrating and testing IT security and data protection measures
- Providing services and completing orders
During your training you will learn the following:
- Analyze inorganic and organic substances with regard to their qualitative and quantitative compositions
- Planning experimental procedures and setting up equipment
- Producing inorganic and organic preparations according to specifications
- Separating mixtures of substances
- Purifying, identifying and characterizing substances
- Optimizing manufacturing instructions and procedures for preparations together with natural scientists
- Developing and optimizing analytical methods together with natural scientists
- Carrying out physical tests to determine material constants and chemical parameters
- Recording and documenting experimental procedures; working with German and English-language regulations
- Using computers to control equipment, to record, process and forward data as well as for documentation, information gathering and for logistical and organizational purposes
- Evaluating measurement and test data and assessing the results
- Observing regulations on occupational, environmental and health protection when handling working materials and equipment
- Disposing of waste materials in an environmentally friendly manner - Applying quality management measures
During your training you will learn the following:
- Plan and carry out experiments together with scientists, taking into account the regulations on occupational health and safety, environmental protection and animal welfare
- Apply quality management measures
- Carry out tests on animals, plants, microorganisms and cell cultures
- Carrying out sophisticated preparations
- Developing test models for active substance tests together with natural scientists
- Testing specific active substances on organisms
- Carrying out molecular biological and biochemical studies as well as genetic engineering experiments
- Applying biotechnological methods
- Observing and recording experimental procedures
- Using complex electronic measuring devices during experiments
- Recording and processing test data with the help of IT systems
- Analyzing, documenting and evaluating measurement and test data, in particular using electronic data processing technology
Are you ready to start your future?
Find open positions for all locations in our Job Portal.
Any questions? Contact us!
For further questions, reach us daily from 12:00 to 16:00 CET at +49 6131 9084-1291. Alternatively, send us an email: jobs@biontech.de.
