Tasks and activities
Industrial mechanics specialised in the fields of machine and system technology install and repair machines and production systems. After their completion, you will check the operational functions of the machines and put them into service . Maintenance and repair of the machines and the production systems, such as power engines, driven machines, machine tools and special machines und auxiliary equipment, as well as their chaining together to systems are also included in the range of tasks. For your work, you will mainly use semi-finished material, finished and standard parts and you will make assembly parts yourself.
The works are done as individual assembly, small-series-assembly or as service job. Your workplaces can be steady or they can vary, they can be indoor or at building sites.
Vocational training - Preconditions
Anybody can basically start the vocational training to become an industrial mechanic at RK Rose+Krieger. However, the trainees should have at least the secondary modern school qualification (Hauptschule) and should be willing to learn and to work hard.
The application shall include at least a letter of application, a personal data sheet, copies of the last school certificates and a photograph (digital is also possible).
Duration
The duration of the vocational training for industrial mechanics is planned to be three and a half years. Based on the educational background, the company can reduce the duration of the training in mutual agreement with the applicant.
Contents
The main objective of the operational, educational and the external training is to gain the ability to make decisions and to take on responsibilities. The training regulation bindingly governs the contents that the industrial companies have to communicate during the training. They include the following subjects:
• Technology
• Manufacturing planning
• Technical mathematics
• Economics and social studies
Furthermore, RK Rose+Krieger is trying to teach internal subjects to the trainees in addition to the minimum subjects required by the training regulation and the framework curriculum.
Certificates and examinations
During the training, the trainee has to keep a record book to give evidence of formal qualification. This evidence of formal qualifications allows the continuous monitoring of the training process and provides an important prerequisite and basis for the support the company can give to the trainees.
An intermediate examination will be conducted after one and a half years of training time at the earliest. It deals with the knowledge and the skills which are taught according to the subject matters of the framework curriculum in the first year of training. It provides the opportunity to identify the state of training and to check it. Identified learning gapes can be closed if necessary. It is mandatory to take part in the intermediate examination as an admission requirement for the final examination.
The final examination at the end of the training includes a three-hour work sample and the written examinations in technology, work planning, technical mathematic as well as economics and social studies.
Company training centres
The training is conducted as a dual system, i.e. theoretical subjects are taught in the part-time vocational school and the practical training is provided in the company.
Payment
The trainees are paid according to the tariffs agreed by the IG Metall union.
