Start your career at BioNTech

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Kick off your career at BioNTech

Would you like to help us find answers and solutions to some of the world's most pressing health challenges? We offer a wide range of entry-level positions where you can play an important role in our pioneering work. We also have numerous apprenticeships and opportunities for students and graduates. Get your future off to a great start with BioNTech!

Our entry-level positions

BioNTech has various apprenticeship options available. We offer a friendly and welcoming environment where we work together as equals, allowing you to get the most out of your apprenticeship.

Depending on the location, we offer student tickets for your commute to work, covering up to 100% of the cost. Like all other employees, apprentices in Germany can purchase what's known as a Deutschlandticket, a subsidized public transportation ticket. We offer payment in line with current standard rates for apprenticeships. Our training programs are run in cooperation with Provadis and Fresenius University of Applied Sciences.

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Simply set up an alert on our job portal and you'll automatically be notified about new openings. Please note that we do not accept speculative applications and only respond to applications for specific job postings.

Apprenticeships at BioNTech

What gets your attention the most? Science and immunotherapy research? IT? Business? Logistics, perhaps? Whether you're looking to start your career in IT, are interested in an apprenticeship as a biology lab technician, or want to get started as an industrial clerk, we have the right opportunity for you. We currently offer apprenticeships in six exciting fields. So if you already know what's best for you, we're ready for you to shape your future with us.

Benefits of an apprenticeship at BioNTech:

  • Comprehensive support from your trainers, training managers, mentors and fellow apprentices – both in person and online
  • Regular online trainee lunches and quarterly afternoon hotel meetups
  • Supplementary learning units to vocational school lessons at external academies
  • Access to digital learning platforms that help you develop your knowledge in specific areas
  • Access to separate preparation materials and an online course for your exam
  • Active exchange with employees from various BioNTech locations throughout Germany

During your apprenticeship, you'll learn how modern IT systems are planned, set up, and operated.

What you can expect:

  • Designing and implementing IT systems, and adapting them to individual requirements
  • Installing and configuring networks
  • Administering and operating IT systems
  • Putting storage solutions into operation
  • Programming software solutions
  • Planning, preparing, and implementing tasks in line with customer-specific business and service processes
  • Informing, advising, and supporting customers
  • Developing, creating, and supporting IT solutions
  • Analyzing and evaluating standard systems and customer-specific solutions
  • Carrying out and documenting quality assurance measures
  • Implementing, integrating and checking IT security and data protection measures
  • Providing services and fulfilling orders

During your apprenticeship, you'll learn how chemical substances are examined, processed, and evaluated, and how you can use this knowledge to lay important foundations for research and development.

What you can expect:

  • Analyzing organic and inorganic substances in terms of their qualitative and quantitative composition
  • Planning test procedures and setting up equipment
  • Manufacturing organic and inorganic preparations according to specifications
  • Separating, purifying, identifying, and characterizing mixtures of substances
  • Working with scientists to optimize manufacturing and analysis processes
  • Conducting physical tests to determine chemical parameters and material constants
  • Documenting experiments and results
  • Using digital tools for device control, data acquisition, evaluation and organization
  • Analyzing and evaluating measurement and test results
  • Ensuring and monitoring compliance with occupational safety, health and environmental regulations
  • Managing environmentally compatible disposal of laboratory waste
  • Fulfilling quality assurance measures

During your apprenticeship, you'll learn how biological samples are examined, analyzed, and evaluated, and how you can contribute to the development of new active ingredients and therapies.

What you can expect:

  • Planning and conducting experiments with scientists, taking into account occupational safety, environmental, health, and animal welfare regulations
  • Fulfilling quality management measures
  • Examining microorganisms, cell cultures, plants, and animals
  • Performing precise preparations
  • Collaborating on the development of test models for drug testing
  • Testing specific active substances on organisms
  • Performing molecular biological and biochemical investigations and genetic engineering experiments
  • Applying biotechnological processes
  • Observing and recording of test procedures
  • Using complex electronic measuring instruments during test procedures
  • Recording and processing of test data using modern IT
  • Evaluating, documenting, and assessing of measurement and test data using electronic data processing technology

During your apprenticeship, you'll learn how medicines are manufactured, tested, and packaged, and how to combine technology, precision work, and quality assurance.

What you can expect:

  • Controlling systems for the production of medicines
  • Performing basic operations in pharmaceutical process engineering
  • Weighing active ingredients and excipients throughout the entire manufacturing process, including packaging and quality management
  • Performing quality controls and tests
  • Performing highly automated processes to prevent production errors and contamination
  • Using networked production systems to monitor processes with the aim of advancing automation in manufacturing and independently analyzing data
  • Using instrumental analytics

During your apprenticeship, you'll learn how to plan, control, and document the flow of goods, and how to ensure that everything runs smoothly and safely.

What you can expect:

  • Participating in logistical planning and organizational processes
  • Accepting goods and checking deliveries against accompanying documents
  • Transportation and delivery of goods to their destination within the company
  • Unpacking, sorting, and storing goods in accordance with requirements and economic principles, and in compliance with warehouse regulations
  • Picking and packing goods for shipment and putting together loading units
  • Labeling, marking, and securing shipments in accordance with legal requirements
  • Creating loading lists and loading plans in accordance with loading regulations
  • Loading and stowing shipments in transportation based on accompanying documents, and applying sealing regulations
  • Using company information and communication systems, standard software, and workplace-related software
  • Using subject-specific foreign language skills

Ready to apply now?

You'll find all of our vacancies on our job portal.

Any questions? Reach out to us!

You can reach us on weekdays between 12 PM and 4 PM CET on +49 6131 9084 1291. Alternatively, you can email jobs@biontech.de

We look forward to hearing from you!

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