Tasks and activities
Metal cutting mechanics specialized in milling technology work on milling or drilling machines and tiller rotors and make parts of steel, non-ferrous metal and plastic accurately to geometry and dimensions. Work and moving processes are planned and controlled using manufacturing specifications with which they determine the required tools, clamping devices and test equipment as well as which operating supplies are applied. They set up the machines, mount the clamping devices and protective equipment and clamp the tools and workpieces. During the cutting operation, they monitor the work process and the auxiliary functions.
Metal cutting mechanics create programs for controlling the machine tools under consideration of parameters, coordination and reference points, enter them into data processing devices, check them and optimise the programs and determine the tool contour parameters. They ensure the production quality through visual tests, measuring of dimensions and shape and by checking the position. They perform maintenance work according to maintenance schedules or when otherwise needed on machines, equipment, tools and measuring equipment.
Vocational training - Preconditions
Basically, anybody can basically start the vocational training to become a metal cutting 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 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 (scanned is also acceptable).
Duration
The duration of the vocational training to become a metal cutting mechanic is planned to last three and a half years. Based on the educational performance and the performance shown at the training company RK Rose+Krieger, 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
The framework curriculum of the states that bindingly define the subjects in the part-time vocational schools are adjusted to the training regulation .
Certificates and examinations
During the training, the trainee has to keep a record book to give evidence of formal qualifications. This evidence of formal qualification allows the continuous monitoring of the training process and provides an important prerequisite and basis for the support that the company can give to the trainees.
An intermediate examination is conducted after one and a half years of training time at the earliest. It inquires 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 gaps 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 the three-hour work sample and the written examinations in technology, work planning, technical mathematic and 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 to by the IG Metall union.
