School students

As an industrial clerk, you will work in our various commercial-business management departments such as Purchasing, Sales, Marketing, Work preparation and Financial accounting.

Training contents:

• Preparation and processing of orders, creation of offers
• Goods procurement, offer comparisons, price negotiations
• Conducting of dialogues with customers and suppliers
• Determination of the requirements and material planning

Duration of the training and vocational school attendance:

• Three years
• One to two compulsory classroom days per week at the Gebhard-Müller-Schule, Biberach

Your profile:

You possess a good intermediate certificate of education, A-levels or a subject-related entrance qualification. In addition, you are interested in commercial processes, are flexible and make contacts easily. 

Do you already have your A-levels and are interested in more qualifications? Do you speak English and French and would like to work at international level later on? In that case, the training vocation as industrial clerk with an additional qualification in International Business Management with Foreign Languages is just right for you! This training takes two and a half years and is held in blocks of lessons at the Friedrich-List-Schule in Ulm.

As a process mechanic, you manage and monitor systems and processes during film production in our extrusion departments.

Training contents:

• Management and monitoring of extrusion systems for the production of blown and flat films
• Corrective intervention in case of process malfunctions
• Maintenance and repairs to the systems
• Film enhancement
• Basic skills in metal and plastics processing, pneumatics and electrical engineering
• Quality inspections in the laboratory

Duration of the training and vocational school attendance:

• Three years
• Blocks of lessons at the Commercial School, Ehingen

Your profile:

You are able to submit good school-leaving qualifications, and show interest in natural science topics (organic chemistry and physics) and in technical processes such as control and regulation technology.

As a media designer, you process data sent to you by customers or advertising agencies with the aid of graphics and image processing programs in order to make them implementable for the printing process.

Training contents:

• Work with graphics and image processing programs
• Data preparation and work preparation, print
• Print form production, print form installation and printing of the print carriers

Duration of the training and vocational school attendance:

• Three years
• One to two compulsory classroom days per week at the Commercial School, Ravensburg or at the Ferdinand-von-Steinbeis-Schule, Ulm

Your profile:

You have a good intermediate certificate of education, A-levels or a subject-related entrance qualification, show interest in electronic image processing and possess good colour perception.

As an IT specialist, you are responsible for the hardware and software of the IT systems, and also act as the contact and consultant for users.

Training contents:

• Networking of hardware and software components to complex systems
• Set-up and function of network systems
• Analysis of the requirements and planning of the IT infrastructure and the communications systems

Duration of the training and vocational school attendance:

• Three years
• One to two compulsory classroom days per week at the Karl-Arnold-Schule, Biberach

Your profile:

You have a good intermediate certificate of education, A-levels or a subject-related entrance qualification and good technological understanding of the set-up and function of systems. In addition, you enjoy interacting with people.

As an industrial mechanic, you provide device parts and assemblies for machines and production systems, set them up, convert them, repair them or conduct maintenance on them.

Training contents:

• Set-up and commissioning of devices, machines or production systems
• Maintenance and repair of systems
• Manufacture and assembly of workpieces and components
• Determination of fault causes and subsequent repairs

Duration of the training and vocational school attendance:

• Three and a half years
• One to two compulsory classroom days per week at the Karl-Arnold-Schule, Biberach

Your profile:

In addition to good secondary school-leaving qualifications or an intermediate certificate of education, you show yourself quick to learn.

As electronics engineer for plant technology, you install, maintain and repair electrical components in plant, production and process systems.

Training contents:

• Programming, configuration and inspection of electrical components and systems
• Installation and commissioning of electrical components and systems
• Maintenance and repairs
• Determination of fault causes and subsequent repairs

Duration of the training and vocational school attendance:

• Three and a half years
• One to two compulsory classroom days per week at the Karl-Arnold-Schule, Biberach

Your profile:

You are able to submit good secondary school-leaving qualifications or an intermediate certificate of education. In addition, you can offer manual dexterity, technical understanding and a responsible and careful style of working.

As a media technologist, you are responsible for the printing of high-quality designs onto packaging film. You will have to control and monitor ultra-modern printing machines.

Training contents:

• Set-up and control of ultra-modern printing machines
• Maintenance of the printing machines
• Basic principles of image processing, creation of colour profiles, creation of binding colour proofs, production and assembly of print forms
• Insights into the connected production stages, quality assurance and work preparation

Duration of the training and vocational school attendance:

• Three years
• One to two compulsory classroom days per week at the Commercial School, Ravensburg (1st year of training) and the Ferdinand-von-Steinbeis-Schule, Ulm (2nd and 3rd year of training)

Your profile:

You have good school-leaving qualifications and are really interested in computer-controlled production systems. In addition, you are well-qualified through good colour vision and technological understanding.