How to Apply to Dürr AG

About Dürr AG

Application Process

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   Start at the corporate careers portal at https://www

   Start at the corporate careers portal at https://www.durr-group.com/en/career, then click through to the job board, which redirects to https://jobs.durr-group.com/ (Oracle HCM Cloud, site CX_2). The board surfaces requisitions across the Dürr AG legal entity and several subsidiaries; some HOMAG, Schenck, and acquired-company entities also publish on three Haufe Umantis tenants (recruitingapp-5387, -5432, -5433 on de.umantis.com). Always check both the central Dürr-Group board and the subsidiary career sites at durr.com, homag.com, schenck-rotec.com, and bbsautomation.com because not every requisition is cross-posted.

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   Filter by location, division, and career level

   Filter by location, division, and career level. The vast majority of currently open Dürr AG requisitions sit in Germany — Bietigheim-Bissingen (corporate functions, Paint and Final Assembly Systems), Schopfloch (HOMAG headquarters), Darmstadt (Schenck), Püttlingen (Saarland operations), Holzbronn/Calw, Gengenbach, St. Johann, Montabaur, and several Saxony locations. International postings appear under the Dürr Systems entities in the United States (Southfield, Michigan and Plymouth, Michigan), Mexico (Querétaro), China (Shanghai, Suzhou), India (Pune, Chennai), Brazil (São Paulo), Czech Republic, Poland, and the United Kingdom — but these usually live on the local subsidiary site rather than the global board.

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   Read the job title carefully

   Read the job title carefully. German postings end with the gender notation (m/w/d) — short for männlich/weiblich/divers (male/female/diverse) — which is a legal requirement under Germany's General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) and signals nothing about preference. The body of the posting will be in German for any role at a German location; English-only postings are typically reserved for international assignments or specific English-language project teams.

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   Create a candidate account on the Oracle HCM portal

   Create a candidate account on the Oracle HCM portal. Have a single PDF resume ready (one combined file is strongly preferred over separate uploads in the German market — see Resume Tips). Cover letters are expected for nearly every German posting. Certificates and references — Arbeitszeugnisse, Praktikumszeugnisse, Schul- und Hochschulzeugnisse — should be combined into a single supporting PDF.

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   Submit the application through the portal

   Submit the application through the portal. Email applications are not the preferred channel for Dürr — the Oracle HCM workflow is the canonical route and is where status updates are tracked. Expect an automated acknowledgment within 24 hours.

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   First-round screening is typically handled by a corporate recruiter from the Dür

   First-round screening is typically handled by a corporate recruiter from the Dürr Group HR organization, often based in Bietigheim-Bissingen for headquarters roles or by the divisional HR business partner for HOMAG, Schenck, or Application Technology positions. The screening call lasts 20-30 minutes and is conducted in German for German postings (assume German unless the recruiter explicitly opens in English).

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   Technical interview with the hiring manager and one or two senior team members

   Technical interview with the hiring manager and one or two senior team members. For engineering roles this is substantive: expect to walk through specific projects, discuss CAD systems you have used (Siemens NX, Catia, SolidWorks), describe PLC programming experience (Siemens, Beckhoff, B&R, CodeSys are common), and explain process-control concepts. For service-technician roles expect questions about hands-on troubleshooting, electrical schematics, and willingness to travel — service technicians at Dürr often spend 50-80% of their time at customer sites worldwide.

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   On-site visit and factory tour

   On-site visit and factory tour. For roles at Bietigheim-Bissingen, Schopfloch, or Darmstadt this is essentially mandatory before an offer. The visit usually combines a final-round interview panel (hiring manager, one peer, an HR representative) with a tour of the relevant production area or test facility so you can see the machinery you would be working on. This is also where cultural fit is genuinely assessed — Dürr is conservative and Schwäbisch in its working style, and the in-person visit lets both sides confirm fit.

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   Offer (Vertragsangebot) issued in writing under German employment law

   Offer (Vertragsangebot) issued in writing under German employment law. Standard German features apply: 30 days of paid vacation, 13th-month payment in many roles, defined pension contribution, and either an unbefristeter (permanent) or befristeter (fixed-term) contract — fixed-term is common for first hires and university graduates and converts to permanent based on performance. Probationary period (Probezeit) is six months by default. Notice periods scale with tenure under the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB §622).

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    For students and early-career candidates, three structured entry routes operate

    For students and early-career candidates, three structured entry routes operate in parallel to the standard direct-hire process. Ausbildung is the formal three-to-three-and-a-half-year vocational apprenticeship system: Dürr trains apprentices each year in Mechatroniker, Industriemechaniker, Elektroniker für Automatisierungstechnik, Industriekaufmann/-frau, Fachinformatiker and several other recognized professions (Ausbildungsberufe), with classroom days at the local Berufsschule and practical days at the Dürr or HOMAG site. Duales Studium combines a bachelor's degree from the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) — typically the Stuttgart, Mosbach, or Heidenheim campuses for Dürr roles — with paid practice phases at the company; popular tracks include Maschinenbau, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Informatik, and Elektrotechnik. Werkstudent positions are part-time student-worker roles (typically 15-20 hours per week during the semester, up to full-time during semester breaks) for university students enrolled in a relevant degree program. All three routes are advertised on the same career portal and use the same application system.

Resume Tips for Dürr AG

Interview Culture

What Dürr AG Looks For

• Deep technical specialism over breadth. Dürr's competitive advantage is engineering depth in narrow domains: paint application, electrostatics, atomization, surface treatment, drying, exhaust-air purification, balancing technology, woodworking machinery, battery-electrode coating. The candidates who get hired demonstrate that they have worked on something specific and know it cold — not that they have touched many things superficially.
• Hands-on engineering experience — at universities (Diplomarbeit or Masterarbeit projects done in industry), through Praktika, through Werkstudent roles, or through prior employment. Dürr is not the company that hires generalists out of consulting and trains them up; it hires engineers who have already been close to physical machines.
• Working German (CEFR B2 or above) for any role at a German location, with C1 expected for any role involving customer interaction, contract negotiation, or team leadership. English at C1 is also expected because Dürr is a global business and project teams routinely span Germany, China, the United States, and Mexico.
• Reliability and continuity in the CV. German employers — and Dürr in particular — read CVs for stability: long tenures at previous employers are a positive signal, frequent moves require explanation. Acceptable explanations exist (acquisitions, completed fixed-term contracts, geographic moves for family) but the burden is on you to address the question.
• Formal qualifications that match the role. For engineering positions, an Ingenieurabschluss (Diplom-Ingenieur, Bachelor of Engineering, or Master of Engineering) from a recognized university or Fachhochschule is expected. For service technicians, a completed Ausbildung as Mechatroniker, Industriemechaniker, or Elektroniker plus relevant Weiterbildung is the standard profile. For commercial roles, an Industriekaufmann/-frau Ausbildung or a Wirtschaftsingenieur or BWL degree is the norm.
• Willingness to travel for service and project roles — Dürr installs paint shops and woodworking lines worldwide, and field service engineers, commissioning engineers, and project managers spend substantial time at customer sites in China, the United States, Mexico, India, and Eastern Europe. Postings often state the expected travel intensity (Reisebereitschaft) explicitly; if the posting says 50% Reisebereitschaft, treat that as a hard requirement rather than a preference.
• Comfort with the Mittelstand culture: long-term thinking, conservative communication, calibrated technical claims, and respect for hierarchy. Self-promotion that reads well in a Silicon Valley interview reads as overstated in a Schwäbisch interview — calibrate accordingly.
• For battery-related roles in the Clean Technology Systems division, demonstrable experience with coating, drying, slot-die technology, electrode chemistry, or lithium-ion cell manufacturing is increasingly valued — this is the part of the business growing fastest and Dürr is hiring against its competitors for this exact talent.
• For HOMAG roles in Schopfloch, familiarity with woodworking machinery, CNC programming, edge-banding technology, or wood-construction prefabrication is the relevant background. This is a genuinely separate hiring lane from the automotive paint-shop business — same parent company, very different domain expertise.

Open Positions

Dürr AG currently has 8 open positions.

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