Creative Play Lab - Prototypes Internship

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; On-site; DKK 13,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shape the future of play in Creative  

Gain access to our world class prototY

Work with a passionate team of like‑m​

Live and work in the global HQ in Bill

Gain insight into innovation processes

Job summary

The LEGO Group’s Creative Play Lab in Billund, Denmark, invites enrolled students to join the Play Discovery Prototypes team for a paid 5-month internship from February 1 to June 30, 2025. You will learn prototyping using CAD/CAM, 3D printing, milling and CNC machining.

You'll work with designers, engineers and researchers, gaining hands-on experience across tools, machines, and materials, while contributing to prototypes and ideas for future LEGO play.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in full time education in an art, design, engineering or other craft discipline
• Available to move to / commute to Billund, Denmark for the duration of the internship
• Free for the entire internship period from February 1, 2025, to June 30, 2025
• Speak English to at least a conversational / intermediate level
• You are a hands on individual with a bias towards learning-by-making
• Experience with at least some of the following disciplines: CAD and CAM softwares, Adobe suite, Graphic Print programmes, 3D Printing techniques, Milling and CNC Machining

Responsibilities

• You’re here to learn from the best so we appreciate that there will be a lot of new things for you to get familiar with. 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!
• Use our equipment, tools and machines to support your colleagues with creating prototypes
• Push the boundaries of ‘prototypable’ play by inventing smart solutions to overcome machining challenges
• Bring your unique perspectives on how we problem solve for manufacturability
• Suggest new trends or techniques we could explore in our prototypes department
• Be resourceful in overcoming prototyping challenges and help others to problem solve their designs
• Work with our range of equipment including CNC machines, milling machines, bandsaws etc
• Work using a range of materials including plastic, wood, metal, textiles and paper/cardboard
• Create new LEGO elements and other prototypes being resourceful to use every tool at your disposal to hack, build and learn every day
• Explore new play opportunities and other prototyping solutions by making and testing different ideas to gather feedback on which techniques and designs work best and iterate on ideas collaboratively
• Collaborate with a team of experienced designers, developers, engineers, artists and researchers to drive our innovation missions forward

Job description

Play Discovery Prototypes Internship

Do you enjoy making prototypes by using various tools and machines? Join the LEGO® Group’s Creative Play Lab for a Paid 5-Month Internship at our Headquarters in Billund, Denmark! If you have an unquenchable passion for exploring new play opportunities and making things with innovative prototyping techniques then you could be one of the talented students joining our Play Discovery Prototypes team this year!

Internship Dates: February 1, 2025, to June 30, 2025

About us

Creative Play Lab (CPL) is at the heart of new product innovations at the LEGO Group. We experiment with emerging technologies, tinker with new tools, band together with new brands and integrate new inventions into the LEGO system of play to create the toys of tomorrow’s world. As an intern in the Play Discovery Prototypes team, you will learn to use our prototyping tools to get hands on with a variety of prototyping tasks from day one. You’ll get to work across our wide range of machines, developing your equipment expertise to master your craft as you support the teams in designing, prototyping, and iterating on the toys of the future with your prototyping skills.

Meet the team

We’re professional craftspeople from diverse backgrounds, including industrial designers, mechanical engineers, machinists and carpenters who deploy our expertise in equipment, printing and manufacturing to develop innovative new ways to piece together the prototypes of our future toys and internal prototypes. We explore all the possibilities for how we can make designs become reality with our unique design-for-production (or making) perspective. We ask ‘have you thought of making it this way?’ to spark ideas in our inventor colleagues to turn their concepts into physically ‘prototypable’ play. Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do.

Internship Eligibility

Currently enrolled in full time education in an art, design, engineering or other craft discipline

Available to move to / commute to Billund, Denmark for the duration of the internship

Free for the entire internship period from February 1, 2025, to June 30, 2025

Speak English to at least a conversational / intermediate level

You are a hands on individual with a bias towards learning-by-making

Experience with at least some of the following disciplines: CAD and CAM softwares, Adobe suite, Graphic Print programmes, 3D Printing techniques, Milling and CNC Machining

Responsibilities

• You’re here to learn from the best so we appreciate that there will be a lot of new things for you to get familiar with. 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!
• Use our equipment, tools and machines to support your colleagues with creating prototypes
• Push the boundaries of ‘prototypable’ play by inventing smart solutions to overcome machining challenges
• Bring your unique perspectives on how we problem solve for manufacturability
• Suggest new trends or techniques we could explore in our prototypes department
• Be resourceful in overcoming prototyping challenges and help others to problem solve their designs
• Work with our range of equipment including CNC machines, milling machines, bandsaws etc
• Work using a range of materials including plastic, wood, metal, textiles and paper/cardboard
• Create new LEGO elements and other prototypes being resourceful to use every tool at your disposal to hack, build and learn every day
• Explore new play opportunities and other prototyping solutions by making and testing different ideas to gather feedback on which techniques and designs work best and iterate on ideas collaboratively
• Collaborate with a team of experienced designers, developers, engineers, artists and researchers to drive our innovation missions forward

Perks

• Shape the future of play in Creative Play Lab and contribute to the LEGO models and experiences of the future
• Gain access to our world class prototyping studio and gain experience with a huge range of softwares, tools and machines
• Work with a passionate team of like-minded prototypers 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
• Gain an insight into how an innovation department operates and the processes through which we design our model portfolio at the LEGO Group

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 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.

Founder

Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, and having fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.