Creative Play Lab - Prototypes Internship

Lego Group; Billund; On-site; DKK 125,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Insurances

Wellbeing

Job summary

LEGO Group is offering a paid Prototypes Internship at our Head Quarters in Billund, Denmark. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team to prototype, test, and iterate on concepts that shape next-generation play experiences.

You will learn from skilled machinists and designers, developing hands-on craftsmanship with state-of-the-art tools and processes while contributing to real projects over a 5-month period starting February 2027.

Qualifications

• Must be enrolled in higher education as a student for the full duration of the internship.
• Available to work on site in Billund, Denmark for the period.

Responsibilities

• Learn from machining experts in the machine workshop.
• Craft prototypes from different briefs.
• Assemble and finish prototypes for play testing.
• Brainstorm with creative teams to turn concepts into manufacturable prototypes.

Skills

Machining tools

Woodwork

Sketching

Painting

Sculpture

Graphic Design

3D CAD

Videography

LEGO Model Building

Textiles

Tools

3D CAD programs

Job description

Job Description

Prototypes Internship:

Are You an Aspiring Prototyper Looking to Discover New Play?

Join the LEGO® Group’s Prototypes team within the Creative Play Lab for a Paid Internship at our Head Quarters in Billund, Denmark!

Are you driven by an unquenchable passion for discovering new play opportunities through early-stage ideation, concept development, and prototyping? If so, you could be one of the talented students joining our Prototypes department this year, where creativity and craft go hand in hand!

Start date: February 2027

Length: 5 months (until end of June 2027) with possibilities for summer extension

About us:

Creative Play Lab is an ambitious, future‑focused innovation hub inventing radical new play opportunities and never‑seen‑before experiences for LEGO® fans of today and tomorrow. We grow the boundaries of what play can become, using bold experimentation, advanced technologies, and deep insight into how kids play to imagine meaningful, next‑generation experiences. Our mix of creatives, innovators, researchers, engineers, and technologists rapidly transforms curiosity into tangible concepts, redefining the future of play and ensuring LEGO® play remains at the forefront of creativity and joyful exploration.

As an intern in our Prototypes department, you’ll join teams dedicated to letting loose their making skills to help teams problem solve and explore new play experiences through rapid prototyping. You’ll unleash your imagination across a range of innovation missions and production tasks, collaborating cross‑functionally to develop concepts into playable prototypes.

About the Internship:

We look for interns who bring something genuinely different to our innovation hub, adding fresh cultural insight, creative energy, and new ways of thinking. Your time with us will span personal curiosity projects, team capability‑building initiatives, and innovation Missions. Every day is different and you’ll learn directly from a world‑class multidisciplinary team as you build your craft, embracing ambiguity as you discover new play experiences.

Meet the Prototypes team:

This team of craftspeople includes everyone from machinists to carpenters who deploy their expertise in workshop tools, production machines, printing and ‘making’ to turn the inventors’ crazy ideas from a sketch or digital concept into a high‑quality real‑world physical prototype. They ask the inventors ‘have you thought of making it this way?’ to spark ideas that innovate the design. You’ll need a thinking through making mindset and a can‑do attitude to join this team as you learn to use some state‑of‑the‑art new machines to scan, design, mill, machine, 3D‑print and paint incredible physical prototypes to turn ideas from a simple sketch into reality.

Internship Eligibility:

To qualify for this internship opportunity, you must meet all of the following criteria:

• (1) You are over the age of 18
• (2) You will be enrolled in higher education as a ‘student’ for the full duration of the internship period
• (3) You are currently due to graduate at some point after the end of the internship period
• (4) You will not be requesting a delayed graduation date just to qualify for this internship
• (5) This internship will contribute quantitatively towards your course credit
• (6) This internship is a compulsory part of your education
• (7) You are available to undertake this internship contract starting from the stated start date
• (8) You are available to work full time for the full period up until the stated end date
• (9) You are able to work on site in Billund, Denmark for this period

We also encourage interns to have experience with at least some of the following:

• Machine Workshop tools e.g. lathe, drills etc.
• Woodwork
• Sketching
• Painting
• Sculpture
• Graphic Design
• LEGO® Model Building
• Textiles
• 3D CAD programs
• Videography / Editing

What we’re looking for:

Curiosity: Our teams thrive on a playful curiosity in all they do. You need to be always asking questions, seeking the reason “why”, digging for answers even when it’s hard and never stop wondering “what if…”

Bravery: Our organisation is a huge place full of different people and different perspectives. You need to be comfortable meeting new people every day, speaking up when you disagree, receiving feedback, facing the unknowns of innovation head on and forging yourself a path when things aren’t well defined.

Focus: Our workload and priorities are always changing. You need to be happy shifting priorities fast, focusing on a high priority task one week then focusing on developing your own independent curiosities the next.

Maker Mindset: Our Prototypes team members are constantly transforming ideas into physical, tangible prototypes. You need to be a physical maker first and foremost, keen to get your hands on machinery and wield tools to forge the teams’ scrappy conceptual ideas into a physical reality at a range of different levels of fidelity.

Responsibilities:

We want you to bring all your energy, enthusiasm and experiences to work every day so we can achieve amazing things together while you learn along the way. Some of your typical responsibilities could include…

• Learning from machining experts in our machine workshop
• Crafting prototypes from different briefs
• Assembling and finishing prototypes into their final form for play testing
• Brainstorming with creative teams around how to turn a concept into a manufacturable physical prototype

Perks:

• Work with a passionate multi‑disciplinary team of like‑minded creative inventors where you’ll learn something new every day and build your professional network
• Live and work in the global headquarters of the LEGO® Group in Billund, Denmark and explore our state‑of‑the‑art campus
• Be an active co‑creator with kids – they know how to make fun and meaningful play.

What’s in it for you?

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 seeksto 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.

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