Internship / Praxissemester Project Engineering Automation and Project Planning in Köln

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.

• 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

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.

Send your resume and a brief cover letter to recruiting@ep-equipment.eu with the subject line “Internship Project Engineering”