Tailwind for your career start

Business graduate
trainee programme

Get to know the strategic and corporate management divisions at DFS over 24 months and secure the best springboard for your career. If you are a master's graduate with a real passion for aviation, our business trainee programme is the ideal place to start. You will be assigned your own duties and take on sub-projects right from the outset here.

You will also have the chance to take excursions and engage in work shadowing programmes that allow you to network both internally and externally. In this way, you will gradually learn to take on responsibility and open up the best prospects for your future.

The application period for our next programme (starting in October 2027) opens in February 2027.

Everything you need for your future

Our graduate trainee programme has been designed to cover everything you need to really get to grips with the complex and exciting aviation system and help shape it in future. You will also benefit from an open, helpful and appreciative environment, where you can start work on establishing a network early on, even beyond the boundaries of DFS. Excursions to our system partners in the aviation sector are what make this possible. We will then work together in setting the course for your future. At the end of the programme, we will support you in applying for vacancies at DFS that you find exciting.

Optimum support

We are always at your side during your business graduate trainee programme. A mentor from senior management will provide you with targeted and personal support. In addition, a former trainee will act as your personal mentor and assist you based on their own experiences. You can also engage in regular discussions with other former trainees in a relaxed atmosphere. Our individual support is complemented by your sparring partner from the HR development department. In this way, we offer you the best professional and personal preparations for assuming a highly responsible position.

Your sky-high benefits

  • 38.5-hour work week

    with flexitime

  • 32 days holiday leave

    plus Christmas and New Year's Eve off

  • Attractive salary package

    with 13.1 salaries including holiday bonus and Christmas bonus

  • Further training

    large internal and external portfolio of courses

  • Remote working

    up to 50% possible

  • Occupational pension

    100% employer financed

  • Company parties and events

    our focus is on people

  • Childcare

    at many sites

  • Employee discounts

    Corporate Benefits portal for discounts & discounted tourism portals 

  • Subsidised Deutschland-Ticket

    for an environmentally friendly travel

  • Gym

    at many sites

  • LANGEN

    Good accessibility with public transport

    with dedicated S-Bahn commuter rail station

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All benefits

What we are looking for

Prerequisite

  • Degree in business studies, business informatics, industrial engineering, or a comparable field of study
  • Master's degree from a university (grade 2.0 or better)

  • Digital mindset, affinity for IT and/or experience in aviation 

Personal characteristics

  • A passion for engineering and aviation

  • Strong affinity for IT and digitalisation

  • Analytical approach

  • A co-operative and communicative personality

Your future: safety in the sky

Your application documents

  • Letter of motivation: What makes you want to work with us?

  • CV: What have you done so far?

  • Letters of reference / transcripts: Please send us the last two, ideally the last four, school transcripts/reports.

How the selection process works

  • Step 1: Online interview

  • Step 2: On-site assessment at our Langen Campus

Do you have questions about the business graduate trainee programme?

Then, please get in touch with:

Susanne Knop
HR Team Leader

susanne.knop@dfs.de

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