Siemens Healthineers Graduate Programs & Internships

 

What it does:  Siemens Healthineers is a leading MedTech company with over 125 years of experience.

Mission:  As a leading MedTech company, we are committed to helping fight the world's most threatening diseases.

Size and presence: We are a team of 66,000 highly dedicated employees across more than 70 countries passionately pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in healthcare to help improve people’s lives around the world.

Best known for: With our strengths in patient twinning, precision therapy, as well as digital, data, and artificial intelligence (AI), we are well-positioned to take on the biggest challenges in healthcare.

The good bits: Great benefits from the start of employment.

The not so good bits: Some Upper Management oversight with a lack of understanding of the actual realities of the business

The Siemens Healthineers story

In mid-January 1896, a few days after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s discovery, the first physicians began using X-rays in certain examinations. The age-old dream of the “glass patient” had suddenly come true. Almost from one day to the next, many diagnostic procedures were utterly transformed. But the “physicians of phototherapy” – as the radiologists soon came to be known – faced a series of technical obstacles: “For beginners, the correct handling of the tubes can prove quite a challenge,” wrote the pioneering radiologist Heinrich Albers-Schönberg. “Many tubes were damaged by unwanted spark over – in other words, disruptive discharge.”

Occasionally, the tubes shattered “with a loud bang, spreading tiny fragments of glass in all directions.” Albers-Schönberg, therefore, suggested covering the patient’s face with a cloth “to protect their eyes if the tube should smash.” This problem was compounded by the fact that the tubes in those days were originally designed for studying gases and either couldn’t produce X-rays at all or required great dexterity, sufficient knowledge of physics, or sheer luck on the part of the user.

Until the X-rays were discovered, the Erlangen-based company Reiniger, Gabbert & Schall (RGS) – which specialized in medical technology and is the second-oldest predecessor of Siemens Healthineers, after Siemens & Halske – focused on building therapeutic apparatus such as light baths and electrotherapy devices. Three days after the discovery was announced, Max Gabbert, the owner of RGS, dispatched one of his employees, an engineer by the name of Robert Fischer, to Würzburg. Fischer had instructions to visit Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and discuss his findings. However, a file in the Siemens Healthineers MedArchiv reveals that “Röntgen did not receive Mr. Fischer, as he was refusing visits altogether.” Instead, he referred Robert Fischer to one of his assistants, who “demonstrated the very modest apparatus to Mr. Fischer in operation.” Following Fischer’s report, Max Gebbert enlisted the help of privy councilor Eilhard Wiedemann, a physicist at the University of Erlangen who already had some experience with similar tubes to those used by Röntgen in his discovery. Wiedemann recommended several experimental setups and proposed to Gebbert that RGS take on his young assistant, the electrical engineer Josef Rosenthal.

“I conducted my first experiments with the cathode ray tubes used in physics laboratories,” Rosenthal later recalled of this pioneering era of X-ray technology at RGS. “As no one had any concept of the true nature of X-rays at that time, we tested every possibility, including whether the mysterious rays could be produced by overloading the filament of an ordinary light bulb. Several light bulbs were burned out in the process – naturally, to no avail.” Soon, Rosenthal realized that “the key to producing good X-rays was a particularly well-suited tube, and I succeeded in producing some outstandingly beautiful X-rays using such tubes in 1896.” Josef Rosenthal used this type of X-ray tube, which was designed specifically for medical use, to create an image of a living 16-year-old girl’s head – and sent the resulting radiograph to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in Würzburg. A few days later, RGS received what was probably the most pleasing postcard in the company’s history.

“Esteemed Sir,” Röntgen wrote on November 3, 1896. “My sincerest thanks for the very pleasing photograph of a head you dispatched to me. Pray, send me, at your earliest possible convenience and for the account of the local physical institute, two vacuum tubes of your construction (together with instructions for use). Very respectfully yours Prof. W.C. Röntgen.”

Rosenthal immediately dispatched two tubes and, some three weeks later, heard from Röntgen again – this time by letter and in rather more detail: “Your tubes are very good,” Röntgen began his letter. But they were too expensive for his limited budget at the time. “I would like to ask whether you can let me have the tubes for twenty instead of thirty marks.” He believed this suggestion may be acceptable to RGS, as it was a special case “and you may be interested in having more orders from me. In case you should agree to this proposition, I should like to ask you to send four tubes of the same quality as the ones which I have used, two of the smaller and two of the larger size.” The suggestion must indeed have been acceptable to Reiniger, Gabbert & Schall – although this can no longer be confirmed from the archives – for Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was holding one of the smaller RGS tubes in his hand when he posed as a model for a monument that was to be erected on the Potsdam Bridge in Berlin.

From 1897 onward, RGS advertised the tube in the world’s first-ever catalog of X-ray equipment. Sales of this X-ray equipment rapidly became a huge success: In 1898, RGS was already employing three times as many people as it did before the discovery of the X-ray – and had to expand its factory, which was still just a few years old, to keep pace with the huge demand.

Culture & vibe

We are a team of 66,000 highly dedicated employees pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in healthcare to help improve people’s lives around the world.

To unleash the power and potential of every single one of us, we’re building a more inclusive culture. Guided by our values, we embrace diversity in all its forms, at every level of our company.

• We listen to customers, patients, and each other so we can be of service to their success.
• We achieve more by tapping into the uniqueness of each Healthineer and by working across the various parts of the organization.
• We emphasize lifelong learning as the best basis for decision making fostering creativity, out-of-the-box thinking as well as continuous development.
• We embrace challenges and push ourselves and the boundaries of what’s possible.
• We take responsibility and hold ourselves and our teams accountable for results.

An inclusive culture is a prerequisite if we aspire to serve the eight billion people on our planet. As a diverse organization, we can better relate to the people – whether customers or patients – in their communities and the specific challenges they face. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are therefore important aspects of our wider responsibilities.

Contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is a priority of our business strategy and is continuously enabled by our unique culture. We are a member of the UN Global Compact, and our emissions reduction targets are approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as consistent with the levels required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

As one of the leading medical technology companies, we focus our sustainability efforts on improving quality of life through access to care, contributing to a regenerative and healthy environment, and advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. We innovate sustainably to enable healthcare for everyone, everywhere.

Recruitment process

• Submit the job application.
• Resumes are reviewed and shortlisted
• Face to Face Interview:
• Reference Check
• Employment Check and Contract
• Managers to contact candidates.

Career prospects

We are a team of 66,000 highly dedicated employees across more than 70 countries passionately pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in healthcare to help improve people’s lives around the world. As a leader in the industry, we aspire to create better outcomes and experiences for patients no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio, spanning from in-vitro and in-vivo diagnostics to image-guided therapy and innovative cancer care, is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

Benefits

Leave & holidays

⛔ Bonus annual leave

✅ Bonus parental leave

✅ Unpaid extended leave

Finance & contract

✅ Permanent employee

✅ Signing bonus

✅ Annual bonus

⛔ Stock options

Flexible work

⛔ Full remote work

✅ Partial remote work

✅ Flexible working hours

Family & health

⛔ Child care

✅ Free gym

⛔ Pet-friendly office

✅ Mental health days

Insurance

✅ Hospital

✅ Outpatient

✅ Dental

✅ Maternity

Perks

⛔ Free breakfast

⛔ Free lunch

✅ Free tea & coffee

✅ Free snacks

⛔Free dinner

Social Contributions

Contributing to a regenerative and healthy environment is one of the most crucial aspects of sustainability. How we handle natural resources, our production, and our waste will determine the future of our human habitat, our living standard as well as our advancements as a civilization. In our efforts to further limit our environmental impact, we see two main topics: 

• Climate change
  Climate change and its consequences pose some of the greatest health threats of our time. We support the global efforts pledged by 175 nations in the COP21 Paris Agreement, to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. We aim to be carbon neutral in our operations by 2030 and pursue further measures. We extended our commitment by joining the Science-based Target Initiative (SBTi) in October 2021, which approved our emissions reduction targets as consistent with levels required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. 
• Circular economy
  We believe that the take-make-dispose model is not future-proof for production and consumption. Given the disproportion between a globally increasing demand for raw materials and the scarcity of natural resources, we strive toward a circular economy. It will lower the impact of material shortages and increase cost benefits by exploiting recycled components and products. One example is the refurbishment of medical imaging devices: Known as the ecoline product portfolio over 6,300 refurbished systems from Siemens Healthineers are installed at customer sites.