Summary
Type
internship
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About this role
Join a busy, fast-moving events team to gain hands-on experience across the full event lifecycle, from creative planning and agency coordination to on-site delivery and post-event reporting. This internship is ideal for someone with a background in event management, creative disciplines, or a related field who wants to explore events in a high-energy, professional environment.
Key responsibilities:
- Support event planning and creative brainstorming sessions, contribute ideas for layout, guest flow, activities and overall experience.
- Prepare event briefs, schedules and simple budgets.
- Coordinate with contracted agencies, suppliers and internal stakeholders: maintain clear, timely correspondence.
- Assist with production documents, artwork checks and printing follow-ups.
- Provide on-site event support.
- Help manage registrations, guest lists and on-site data capture for post-event follow-up.
- Support basic social media content scheduling and simple content creation (images/captions).
- Compile post-event reports with attendance, learnings and suggested improvements.
- Perform ad-hoc administrative tasks to keep the team organised.
Requirements:
- Currently studying Bachelor Degree in Event Management, Communications, Design, Marketing, Hospitality or a related field or demonstrable interest/experience in events.
- Comfortable working under pressure and in a fast-paced environment.
- Willingness to work extra hours and weekends as required by event schedules.
- Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and ability to prioritise multiple tasks.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Familiarity with Canva or basic Adobe softwares is a plus.
- Basic numerical literacy for simple budget tracking.
- Positive, solution-first attitude and a team-player mindset.
Personal attributes
- Proactive and curious: asks questions and volunteers ideas.
- Calm under pressure and resourceful on-site.
- Open to feedback and eager to learn.
- Reliable and punctual: respects deadlines and commitments.
What’s in it for the intern:
- Real, measurable experience delivering corporate events end-to-end.
- Opportunity to work closely with senior event managers and external agencies.
- Mentorship, constructive feedback and a chance to build a professional portfolio.
Location: PETRONAS Twin Towers, KLCC (based with on-site event days)
Duration: 4–6 months (full-time)
Other facts
About PETRONAS
Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) is a leading global energy company committed to powering society’s progress in a responsible and sustainable manner. With close to 50,000 employees and a global reach spanning over 100 countries, we are ranked among the world’s largest corporations by revenue in the Fortune Media IP Ltd’s 2022 Fortune Global 500® list.
As Malaysia’s national oil and gas company, we safeguard and manage the nation’s hydrocarbon resources to ensure national energy security and maximise value. We explore, develop and produce hydrocarbons as well as cleaner energy solutions. We have three core businesses, namely Upstream, Gas and Downstream, supported by Project Delivery and Technology division, which acts as an enabler. We recently launched Gentari, our new entity providing customers with cleaner energy and lower carbon solutions in three core offerings – renewables, hydrogen and green mobility alongside our core portfolio.
We remain committed to produce oil and gas in a differentiated manner, with focus on reducing carbon emissions and at competitive cost. Our hydrocarbon portfolio today is two-thirds gas, which puts us in an advantageous position as gas and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) will continue to play a vital role even as the energy system evolves. As one of the leading LNG players in the world, PETRONAS will continue to serve the global LNG demand.
As a responsible and conscientious global energy player, sustainability is at the heart of our business and how we operate. Our commitment to responsible business growth and positive contributions to society and the environment remains unwavering. Fuelled by our passion to be a partner for our customers in the journey towards a lower carbon energy future, every step we take brings us closer towards achieving our aspiration of Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050 (NZCE 2050).
What you'll do
- The intern will support event planning and creative brainstorming sessions, assist with production documents, and provide on-site event support. They will also help manage registrations and compile post-event reports.
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