Siemens Energy Communications Internship Programme
Location: Gauteng
Closing Date: Rolling
Siemens Energy is looking for a dynamic and creative Communications Intern to join Siemens Energy Middle East & Africa team. This internship offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in corporate communications, content creation, and event support. You’ll collaborate with local, regional, and global teams to help shape and share impactful stories that elevate Siemens Energy brand.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Support the MEA rebranding rollout by coordinating communications activities, updating brand assets, and ensuring alignment with corporate brand guidelines across the region.
- Support the planning and execution of regional internal communication campaigns and employee engagement initiatives.
- Assist with content creation for newsletters, my Energy Hub articles, Viva Engage, emails, presentations, and leadership communications.
- Help coordinate communications activities around strategic events, conferences, stakeholder engagements, and community initiatives.
- Support social media and digital communication efforts by drafting content, monitoring engagement, and maintaining content calendars.
- Support the promotion of employer branding and Energy4Good initiatives across the region.
- Coordinate with country communications leads and cross-functional teams to gather success stories, project updates, and employee features.
- Maintain communication assets, databases, photo libraries, and distribution lists.
- Provide administrative and logistical support for communications projects and events.
- Conduct research on industry trends, stakeholders, competitors, and best practices to support communications planning.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent messaging and alignment with communication strategies.
- Help manage communication-related challenges and escalate issues to management when necessary.
What You Bring
- Have completed a degree in Communications, Public Relations,
- Journalism, Marketing, or a related field
- Strong understanding of the industry and its challenges.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
- Creative thinker with attention to detail
- Ability to creatively tell a story through videos
- Familiarity with project management software and video/photo editing.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Willingness to learn and ask for guidance in relations to communications topics and corporate
- processes
- Trusted and excellent Team player
- Good time management and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and social media platforms
Who is Siemens Energy?
Siemens Energy is more than just an energy technology company. Siemens Energy meets the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring Siemens Energy climate is protected. With more than 92,000 dedicated employees, Siemens Energy is not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but the company is also using Siemens Energy technology to help protect people and the environment.
Siemens Energy’s global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Siemens Energy upholds a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages the search for people who will support Siemens Energy’s focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Rewards
- Working with a global team
- Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
- Possibility to take over further tasks within the company
- Supportive work culture
- Medical benefits
- Remote/Flexible work
- Time off/Paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform
- e-Learning
- Mentorship
- Coaching
About Siemens Energy
Siemens Energy South Africa is part of Siemens Energy, a global energy technology company that develops solutions to support reliable, affordable and more sustainable energy systems. The company works across much of the energy value chain, from electricity generation and transmission to energy storage and industrial applications. Its technologies help utilities, industries and other customers meet electricity demands while working to improve efficiency and reduce emissions. Siemens Energy maintains a South African presence, with its local office based in Waterfall City, Midrand, Gauteng.
Siemens Energy provides a broad range of products, services and technical solutions for the power and industrial sectors. Its portfolio includes gas and steam turbines, generators, transformers, power plant technologies, grid infrastructure and services for maintaining and modernising energy equipment. The company also supports the integration of renewable energy into electricity systems and develops technologies intended to improve grid performance and energy efficiency. Through engineering, maintenance and technical support, Siemens Energy helps customers manage complex energy infrastructure and maintain the reliability of their operations.
South Africa needs dependable electricity infrastructure to support households, businesses, mines and industrial operations. Siemens Energy contributes to this sector through technologies and services related to power generation, transmission networks and industrial energy systems. Its local operations include engineering and service activities, with facilities such as the Wadeville Service Centre supporting equipment maintenance and technical work. These capabilities are important in a market where reliable power supply, infrastructure upgrades and improved operational efficiency remain key priorities for economic development.
Siemens Energy offers career paths in technical and non-technical fields, depending on the vacancies available. Opportunities may include electrical and mechanical engineering, project management, field services, manufacturing, maintenance, information technology, finance, procurement and business support. The company’s careers platform also provides information about professional development and early-career opportunities. For South African students, unemployed graduates and experienced professionals, it is worth checking the official vacancies regularly and reviewing the qualifications, practical experience and technical skills required for each position.
People interested in working for Siemens Energy South Africa should visit the company’s official careers website to search for available positions and learn about its recruitment process. Applicants should read each job advertisement carefully, paying attention to the location, minimum qualifications, experience requirements and application deadline. Preparing an updated CV and ensuring that all information is accurate can help candidates present their experience and skills clearly. Applications should be submitted through the official recruitment platform, and job seekers should be cautious of unofficial offers or requests for payment in exchange for employment.