Career entry
Get started with ZF
Have you completed a technical or commercial degree with honors? Are you graduating soon and planning to start a career? Are you highly committed and motivated? Are you looking for interesting career options right from the start? If your answer is yes, you should apply for a position at ZF.
Outstanding prospects
ZF currently fills around 70% of positions requiring a degree with college graduates and young professionals. The company’s good reputation among potential employees is clearly shown by annual surveys of graduates. Engineers rank ZF as one of the top-25 preferred employers among the 100 largest companies in Germany. IT and Business Management graduates rank the company as one of the top 100 employers.
Technology leader
From research & development, to production and business administration, ZF offers college graduates with technical or commercial backgrounds excellent career opportunities in all ZF Group divisions. The company is constantly on the lookout for highly motivated team players who have ingenious ideas and want to contribute to the company’s success.
If you have already completed an internship or dissertation at one of the ZF sites, you are well aware that ZF believes in creativity, not consumption.
What makes working at ZF worthwhile?
- Innovative leadership and ongoing investments in research & development form the backbone of ZF Group success. As a global player, ZF offers discerning customers around the world outstanding products and first-class services. This approach leads to exciting challenges that ZF employees handle independently in a cooperative atmosphere.
- One key feature of the ZF human resources policy is a sustainable long-term strategy. As a foundation-owned company, ZF actively promotes your personal development and offers you options for in-house advancement through structured personnel development, promoting high-potential employees and applicants, and providing opportunities for development on professional, functional and international levels.
- As one of the leading employers in a future-oriented industry, ZF is aware of corporate responsibility. As a ZF employee, you receive performance-based pay at standard market rates along with generous social benefits. ZF is interested in a long-lasting, reliable partnership and offers attractive, long-term job opportunities.
Your application
If you are interested in a direct entry to ZF, you should go to the ZF job portal where you will find a list of current vacancies. If you are unable to find the job you are looking for, please feel free to submit a general application.

