Training professions

• Technical understanding  
• Interest in new technologies, electrical engineering, and technical complexities  
• Understanding of abstract relationships  
• Good spatial skills
• Skilful hands for accurate work  
• Appreciation of accurate and careful working  
• Patience, endurance, and concentration  
• Good team skills  
• Independence  
• Reliability 

• Duration: 4 years (shorter apprenticeships or WayUp options are possible with a school leaving examination (Matura)) 
• Professional school: 2 days a week 
• Professional Baccalaureate: Possible with good results

• Schaffhausen - Click here to learn more about the benefits of working at the Schaffhausen location.
• Biel
• Seewis
• Subingen 
• Langnau 

(Sissach as of 2024)

• Setting up, reconstructing and maintaining production facilities  
• Manufacturing and packaging products  
• Carrying out small maintenance work and repairing production faults  
• Quality monitoring on the ongoing process  

• Technical understanding: basic understanding of technical equipment and mechanical processes   
• Manual and practical skills  
• Precise, careful working style, and logical thinking  
• Reliability and responsibility   
• Willingness to work irregular working hours (shift work)  

• Duration: 3 years  
• Professional school: Block weeks  
• Professional Baccalaureate: Possible

• Seewis  
  

• Preparing production, assembly, and test documents 
• Operation and maintenance of the products 

• Economic thinking 
• Systematic approach to work  
• Good team skills  

• Duration: 4 years 
  
• Professional school: 2 days a week 

• Schaffhausen - Click here to learn more about the benefits of working at the Schaffhausen location.
• Losone
• Biel
• Sissach 
  

• Planning, developing, programming, and producing electronic hardware and software 
• Using connection and assembly techniques 

• Understanding of abstract relationships  
• Analytical thinking  
• Technical understanding  
• Good team skills  

• Duration: 4 years 
• Professional school: 2 days a week 

• Losone 

• Drilling, milling, sawing, and welding 
• Monitoring production processes 
• Applying different manufacturing and machining procedures

• Interest in and technical understanding of machinery 
• Pleasure in setting up and operating production plants 
• Good spatial skills
• Manual skills 
• Precise working methods 
• Independence 
• Flexibility in working hours 

• Duration: 4 years 
• Professional school: 2 days a week 

• Schaffhausen - Click here to learn more about the benefits of working at the Schaffhausen location.
• Seewis 

• Setting up and monitoring machinery and production equipment
• Product quality assurance   
• Knowledge of the various plastics and their properties

• Compulsory schooling completed
• Technical understanding and manual skills  
• Accurate work  
• Pleasure in setting up and operating machinery

• Duration: 2 years   
• Professional school: 1 day a week   
• Professional Baccalaureate: Not possible  

• Schaffhausen - Click here to learn more about the benefits of working at the Schaffhausen location.
• Seewis

• Collecting, controlling, and booking in goods 
• Professional storage of goods  
• Checking inventory
• Picking goods for customer orders 

• Manual skills 
• Reliability and responsibility 
• Stamina and focus
• Service awareness 

• Duration: 3 years 
• Professional school: 1 day a week 

• Schaffhausen - Click here to learn more about the benefits of working at the Schaffhausen location.
• Sissach
• Seewis 
• Biel
• Genf 

• Collecting, controlling, and booking in goods 
• Professional storage of goods  
• Checking inventory
• Picking goods for customer orders 

• Manual skills 
• Reliability and responsibility 
• Stamina and focus
• Service awareness 

• Duration: 2 years 
• Professional school: 1 day a week 

• Schaffhausen - Click here to learn more about the benefits of working at the Schaffhausen location.
• Sissach
• Seewis 
• Biel
• Genf 

• Quality assurance 
• Performing maintenance and commissioning  
• Processing orders and projects 

• Interest in technical complexities
• Systematic and careful working manner 
• Patience and perseverance 
• Good team skills 
• Reliability 

• Duration: 3 years 
• Professional school: 1 day a week 

• Biel 

• Cleaning and maintaining buildings and means of transport 
• Using different cleaning methods 
• Operating cleaning machines 

• Practical understanding   
• Good constitution and physical mobility   
• No allergies (to cleaning products)   
• Good head for heights   
• Team skills and good manners  

• Duration: 2 years  
• Professional school: 1 day a week  

• Sissach

• Processing steel, iron, heavy and light metal alloys  
• Planning, monitoring, and optimising production  
• Designing and developing models and moulds  
• Performing casting tests  
• Developing new processes  

• Good secondary education (Swiss level A or E)   
• Pleasure in craft work   
• Logical and analytical thinking and good imagination  
• Technical understanding and interest in technical complexities   
• Precise and careful working methods   
• Physical strength 

• Duration: 3 years  
• Professional school: 1 day a week  

• Sissach

• Processing and fulfilling the orders and wishes of the customers  
• Developing applications  
• Building databases  
• Operation and administration of server applications and networks  
• Commissioning ICT devices  
• Participating in internal IT projects  

• Very good school leaving certificate (STEM subjects)  
• Logical, abstract and joined-up thinking, as well as creativity in finding solutions  
• Ability to grasp ideas quickly and good ability to concentrate  
• Systematic and organised working methods  
• Good English skills  

• Duration: 4 years  
• Professional school: 2 days a week  
• Professional Baccalaureate: Possible

• Schaffhausen - Click here to learn more about the benefits of working at the Schaffhausen location.
• Sissach
• Seewis  

• Performing various tasks in administration   
• Writing letters, minutes, and contracts   
• Creating reports   
• Obtaining offers, creating orders, checking order confirmations   
• Handling correspondence with internal and external customers and suppliers   
• Planning and organising meetings and events   
• Handling emails and answering phone calls   
• Greeting guests   

• Good school leaving certificate (very good German as well as good school knowledge of English or French and Italian)  
• Great motivation, reliability and organisational skills  
• Pleasure in administrative tasks and working on the computer  
• Logical and joined-up thinking  
• Teamwork and pleasure in dealing with people  

• Duration: 3 years   
• Professional school: 2 days a week   
• Professional Baccalaureate: Possible

• Schaffhausen - Click here to learn more about the benefits of working at the Schaffhausen location.
• Sissach
• Losone
• Biel

• Making tools, devices and aids for production or prototypes for development  
• Producing mechanical workpieces on conventional drilling, milling and turning machines  
• Programming workpieces on modern computer-controlled machines  
• Determining the production steps based on design or production drawings and putting them into practice  
• Inspecting manufactured workpieces with precise measuring and testing instruments  
• Carrying out pre-assembly or final assembly on systems and machinery, as well as commissioning and maintenance work on the systems  
• Involvement in contracts and projects in cooperation with other experts  
• Developing design solutions and preparing technical documents  

• Interest in technical complexities and mechanics  
• Abstract, logical thinking, and manual skills  
• Good spatial skills
• Stamina and patience as well as precise and thorough working methods  
• Good mathematics and physics skills  

• Duration: 3 years   
  
• Professional school: 1 day a week   
• Professional Baccalaureate: Possible

• Schaffhausen - Click here to learn more about the benefits of working at the Schaffhausen location.
• Biel
• Losone
• Seewis
• Sissach   
• Langnau 

• Installing and configuring ICT user terminals 
• Instructing users in handling the devices  
• Recognising the needs and concerns of users 
• Creating user manuals and checklists  

• Abstract and logical thinking 
• Good team skills 
• Systematic working methods 
• Service awareness 
• Organizational skills  

• Duration: 3 years 
  
• Professional school: 1-2 days a week 

• Biel

• Developing and implementing analog and digital marketing concepts
• Using communication tools in a targeted manner 
• Developing designs 
• Designing and preparing graphical elements
• Creating and maintaining web pages in a user-friendly manner 
• Recording and processing raw digital data

• Abstract and logical thinking  
• Good team skills  
• Systematic working methods  
• Creativity
• Organizational skills   

• Duration: 4 years  
  
• Professional school: 2 days a week    

• Schaffhausen - Click here to learn more about the benefits of working at the Schaffhausen location.
• Biel

Our modern and fully automatic production facilities have to be available at all times. You will be involved in the process of getting new equipment up and running right from the start and then will be responsible for the professional maintenance and repairs of the electrical equipment. 

You will learn to understand technical wiring and circuit diagrams so that you can systematically get to the bottom of any errors and faults. You will also learn how to check electrical functions and systems. Our systems are highly automated and complex. This requires professionals who are trained in programming robots and controllers. 

• Technical skills
  
• Manual and practical skills
• Team skills and good manners
• Reliability

• Duration: 3.5 years 
• Professional school locations: Eibiswald (for Altenmarkt), Amstetten (for Herzogenburg) 

• Altenmarkt
• Herzogenburg 

Among other things, you will learn how to handle complex, networked systems and you will also learn how different systems communicate in terms of their control, regulation and drive technology, and master how they work in IT systems, software solutions and their various links in production. 

• Manual skills and the ability to grasp ideas quickly 
• Interest in mathematics and physics 
• Technical understanding 
• Logical and analytical thinking 
• Creativity in troubleshooting 
• Good IT knowledge 

• Duration: 4 years 
• Professional school location: Stockerau 

• Herzogenburg 
  

You will perform tests such as x-rays, melt assessments, etc., to recognise and analyse casting errors and independently takes steps to remedy them or stop them from happening in future. You will also learn the basics of metal working during your apprenticeship. This includes welding, thermal separation, and quality assurance. After your apprenticeship, you will have it all - you will be a specialist across the entire casting process. 

• Good observation skills 
• Interest in physical and technical processes 
• Technical skills 
• Good spatial skills 
• Ability to cope with a heavy workload 
• Good awareness of safety and security 

• Duration: 4 years 
• Professional school location: Neunkirchen 

• Altenmarkt
• Herzogenburg 

You will work on the setup and commissioning of new systems and be involved in retrofitting and modernization work on existing facilities. 

You will use this knowledge in a wide variety of areas, starting with die-casting through to high-precision machining systems, taking responsibility for smooth production processes. All these tasks will ask a lot of you, your ideas, and your manual skills! 

• Good spatial thinking and ability to grasp ideas quickly 
• Excellent manual skills 
• Interest in the construction and functioning of technical devices 
• Interest in working with metal 
• Ability to stay calm even in stressful situations 

• Duration: 3.5 years (with additional automation technology, 4 years) 
• Professional school location: Neunkirchen  

• Altenmarkt
• Herzogenburg 
  

You take care of the professional execution of these tasks and prepare various spare and wear parts for these tools. This is done according to technical drawings and designs on the latest computer-supported (CNC) machine tools such as lathes, milling machines or eroding (EDM) machines. 

After the assembly, testing and commissioning of the tools, the direct impact of your work will become apparent in the quality of our products. 

• Manual skills 
• Spatial and logical thinking as well as a good imagination 
• Extremely accurate working methods 
• Interest in planning workflows 
• Ability to take responsibility 

• Duration: 3.5 years (with additional machining, 4 years) 
• Professional school locations: Knittelfeld (for Altenmarkt), Neunkirchen (for Herzogenburg) 

• Altenmarkt
• Herzogenburg 

You will use computer programs to create drawings of components and assemblies for machine or tool manufacturing for, or in collaboration with, our customers. You are thus an important interface between GF production and car manufacturers.

Your drawings of individual components and assemblies must also comply with the relevant standards. What exactly does that mean? During your apprenticeship, you will acquire all the necessary knowledge in the field of standardization and construction standards. 

• Good spatial thinking
• Interest in manual and machine-based processing techniques 
• Interest in making compounds and connections 
• Good quality awareness 
• Interest in working on computers
• Appreciation of precision

• Duration: 4 years 
• Professional school locations: Graz, Neunkirchen  

• Altenmarkt
• Herzogenburg 

• Making moulds for casting 
• Operating systems 
• Monitoring systems  
• Breaking down models 
• Maintaining production equipment  

• Technical skills 
• Ability to handle a heavy workload 
• Ability to concentrate  
• Careful and accurate working methods 

• Duration: 3.5 years  

• Leipzig

As a mechatronics engineer with a focus on automation technology, you will familiarise yourself with a diverse range of errors and faults in automation systems from the ground up, allowing you to systematically detect, isolate, and repair our systems. You will also find potential for improvement in the systems and optimize the plants.

On top of all this, you will learn to understand technical plans such as hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical drawings. You will also learn how to carry out tests and correct errors in these technical systems. Our systems are highly automated and complex. This requires professionals who are trained in programming robots and controllers. 

• Logical thinking and ability to grasp ideas quickly 
• Technical skills 
• Interest in mathematics and computer science 
• Problem-solving skills 
• Ability to cope with a heavy workload 
• Ability to stay calm, even in stressful situations

• Schorndorf

You will manufacture tools for industrial series production. For the production, CNC-controlled machine tools are used, which you program yourself. The assembly and inspection of various individual parts according to technical drawings is also part of your job.

• Intermediate maturity or a good secondary school leaving certificate
• Technical understanding
• Manual skills
• Accurate and careful way of working
• Motivation and willingness to work in a team
• Good spatial awareness
• Willingness to perform

• Duration: 3.5 years  
• Professional school location: Biedenkopf

• Biedenkopf