Discover your wealth of possibilities for
a smooth career start at Hödlmayr
The right entry-level program for each individual, adapted to the training situation and with a long-term development perspective from the start. These are Hödlmayr’s diverse entry opportunities, the tailor-made bridge between training and professional practice.
Entry opportunities:
- Vacation internships & vacation jobs (for school students)
- Dual academy (for graduates)
- Internships & compulsory internships (for university students)
- Trainee program (for university graduates)
Hödlmayr focuses on building internal potentials in succession planning and in the growth of new managers. We search for and find the “hidden champions” and “gold nuggets” among our employees, as countless examples and testimonials show.
The HR development program brings potential and perspective together. In the spirit of learning with and from each other and company-wide networking, our prospects complete joint training cycles over 1.5 years on specialist and management-related content.
In addition, individual, interdisciplinary and international projects provide the necessary dose of practice and strengthen the participant’s own network. Each module of this internal development program takes place at a different Hödlmayr location. This way, you get to know the entire company and benefit from your multifaceted knowledge on your career path at Hödlmayr.
We learn our whole life long. Even with technical expertise and routine, there’s still learning potential for everyone.
Our internal mentoring program enables us to use these and to grow further into the next responsibility. Many years of successful executives pass on their knowledge and experience to interested learners in our company as part of specific questions and feedback loops.
In doing so, we take care to match the mentor and mentee in a professionally and personally suitable tandem and to establish a beneficial learning relationship.
Successful logistics requires developed routes and good planning. Your career logistics at Hödlmayr works the same way.
Having a goal in your development is a good start. The question now is how to achieve your specific objective. Our training and development program takes into account the requirements of the respective position and task environment, as well as your personal profile. This determines your own personal development measures. This means that you are not only strong in your responsibilities, but also master your individual career route at Hödlmayr on the optimal directissima.
The long-standing loyalty of our employees makes us proud at Hödlmayr. When experienced employees in different functions go into their well-deserved third stage of life, a great deal of knowledge, expertise and competence goes with them.
We don’t let long-term development perspectives or the exchange of knowledge and information go unused. This succession planning gives you the opportunity for visible perspectives and goals that you can easily work towards and develop. Succession planning also gives the current position holder the opportunity to let you learn and experience responsibilities, tasks and environment, to benefit from the expertise and knowledge of a long-time colleague and to shape the transformation process well for all concerned.
Trainee program
The completion of a business-oriented study with a focus on logistics, production, controlling or sales offers you excellent starting conditions as a trainee. If you value an international environment and the way people interact with different cultures and languages, Hödlmayr is the right place for you.
Your Hödlmayr trainee program will take you through different areas of the entire company in 1.5 years. You will get to know our products, complex logistics services by road, rail and ship, from different professional perspectives.
As a trainee, you’ll take responsibility for projects at home and abroad. If you spend several months abroad in one of our branches, you will also get to know the processes and procedures of the respective department at the operational level. This way, you can build up solid personal and professional networks during your trainee program.
Well-founded further training courses, such as specialist seminars in the field of finance and logistics, management training, etc., support your development. The aim of your trainee program is to develop perspectives into a specialist or leading position in Germany and abroad.
5 questions for Michael Potocsnyek, graduate of the Hödlmayr trainee program
Today, Michael is the team leader of Tender Management at Hödlmayr International AG
How did you become aware of the trainee program?
After my studies, I was looking for trainee programs because I think that these allow an optimal start into working life. At Hödlmayr, I was also attracted to the subjects of automotive logistics and international business relations. The international orientation was particularly important to me, both within the company with the various national companies and branches as well as on the customer side, where I could put my know-how into practice.
What experiences did you have during the trainee program?
In the 1.5 years, I’ve had a lot of different experiences that have left a lasting impression on me. I was very well received by all the project groups and in the various departments. That’s where contacts and friendships are formed. The trainee program at Hödlmayr offers the opportunity to quickly get to know the processes and the people who act. I was also able to experience in my own way what flexibility means in logistics.
How have you benefited from the trainee program in your current role as an international logistics manager?
As a trainee, you get the time to look at processes very closely and the chance to actively help shape them. In addition, you are assigned many multi-faceted tasks and can build up a lot of knowledge while simultaneously exploring your strengths.
What is the benefit of a stay abroad for professional development?
A stay abroad always expands your personal horizons and strengthens your personality. You have to adapt to new circumstances and learn different ways of seeing and behaving. Especially in our internationally positioned company, it’s important to stay open to new ideas and understand others. That’s the basis for success.
And for you personally?
It’s very important for me to have my own experiences. They’re more intense abroad because it’s not the usual environment.
One graduate of the Dual Academy at Hödlmayr is Raziye Aydin. “I chose the Dual Academy because it features tailor-made training for AHS graduates and offers the opportunity to start working immediately after graduation. Hödlmayr is also one of the few companies to offer this exclusive program.” Initially the forwarding agent worked in Hödlmayr High & Heavy, she now supports her colleagues in Key Account Management, where activities such as designing international transports, coordinating customer inquiries and customer communication are part of the program.
The Dual Academy also includes an internship abroad, which Raziye Aydin completed at Hödlmayr Logistics Belgium N.V. in Belgium.
