Internship / Praxissemester Project Engineering Automation and Project Planning

EP Equipment Germany GmbH; Köln; Vor Ort; EUR 11.000 - 20.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

EP Equipment Germany GmbH seeks an intern to bridge technical sales support and project planning. You will follow up on CRM leads, engage with clients to capture requirements, and help shape project scopes and plans.

You’ll work closely with sales and engineering to ensure smooth handover and delivery readiness. You will learn to translate needs into technical specifications, support proposals, and contribute to feasibility assessments while collaborating with procurement and other departments

Qualifikationen

• Advanced engineering studies in a relevant field.
• Initial experience with project management principles and tools (MS Project, Excel, Gantt charts).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; fluent in English; German or Mandarin welcome.

Aufgaben

• Follow up on presales leads and opportunities via CRM.
• Engage with potential clients to clarify technical needs and propose tailored solutions.
• Translate customer needs into technical documentation and project specifications.
• Support technical proposals, preliminary designs, and feasibility assessments.
• Collaborate with sales, engineering and procurement to define project scope, timelines and costs.
• Create and maintain project plans, schedules, and risk assessments for early planning.
• Support client meetings, presentations, and clarification sessions during the proposal phase.
• Transition projects from presales to execution with clear deliverables.

Kenntnisse

MS Project

Excel

Gantt charts

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Ausbildung

Engineering studies (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial)

Tools

MS Project

Excel

Jobbeschreibung

Your responsibilities

This Internship sits at the intersection of technical sales support and project planning. You will be learn to follow up on leads from the CRM system, engaging with potential clients to understand their requirements, and helping shape project scopes and plans. You’ll collaborate closely with both the sales and project execution teams to ensure successful handover and delivery readiness and support automation projects from concept to proposal.

This isn’t the sort of work placement where you just stand around watching. You’ll be actively involved – from the very first steps right through to being fully integrated into client projects. But don’t worry. You’ll have mentors to support you and will learn what to do step by step,

What you can see and do

• Follow up on presales leads and opportunities via CRM
• Engage with potential clients to clarify technical needs, propose tailored solutions
• Translate customer needs into technical documentation and project specifications.
• Support technical proposals, preliminary designs, and feasibility assessments.
• Collaborate with internal departments (sales, engineering, procurement) to develop project scope, timelines, and cost estimates.
• Create and maintain project plans, schedules, and risk assessments to support early-stage planning.
• Support client meetings, presentations, and clarification sessions during the proposal phase.
• Transition of projects from presales to execution, with clearly defined deliverables and responsibilities.

Your profile

• Advanced engineering studies (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or related field).
• Initial experience in project management principles and tools (e.g., MS Project, Excel, Gantt charts).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; fluent in English (Company language is English), german and/or mandarin knowledge very welcome

Why us?

EP Equipment offers you direct access to the decision-makers: to the European management team, the factory in China, technical specialists, dealers and customers. You will work as part of an international team at our head office in Cologne-Mülheim, as well as on ongoing customer projects across Europe.

You’ll have the opportunity to help develop the practical project standards on which the team will rely as we transition from more repeatable X-Pace implementations to increasingly complex ‘Intelligent Product’ solutions.

There is the opportunity to write a Master’s thesis, and there is also the possibility of being offered a position.