Your apprenticeship

As a technical system designer, you will specify how construction elements are produced and fitted on site with the aid of technical drawings. You will design these construction elements using aluminium, steel, sheet metal and concrete and apply the correct dimensions to them. In the practical phase, you will then experience first-hand how the construction elements are produced based on your drawings, before learning to draw up parts lists and calculations for the construction site. Depending on the focus of your training, you will also learn how to design ventilation, heating and sanitary facilities or electrical systems.

• Disciplines: Supply and Equipment Technology, Electrical Engineering Systems, Steel and Metal Construction Technology
• Training locations: Bielefeld, Dusseldorf, Mannheim, Leipzig, Plauen and Munich
• Duration of apprenticeship: 3.5 years
• Qualification required: at least GCSEs or equivalent

As an IT specialist for system integration you will be responsible for both the hardware (e.g. laptops, printers and telephones) and the software. You will analyse your colleagues’ requirements in the company and decide which hardware and software is to be used, while always keeping an eye on which servers and networks are to be integrated. Regular updates and maintenance work will be just as much part of your tasks as user support. As an IT expert, you will ensure that your colleagues get help quickly when any problems arise.
 

• Training locations: Bielefeld, Plauen, Mannheim
• Duration of apprenticeship: 3 years
• Qualification required: at least GCSEs or equivalent

As an IT specialist in the field of application development, you will develop and program software solutions, adapt existing applications and test new programmes. You will analyse user requirements, translate them into technical concepts and accompany the entire development process from planning to implementation and maintenance of the software. Your responsibilities will also include documentation and user training. 
 

• Training locations: Bielefeld, Plauen
• Training duration: 3 years
• Required qualification: at least a secondary school leaving certificate (or intermediate school leaving certificate)

During your training to become a construction mechanic, you will develop into an expert in the working and processing of steel and other metals. You will start your practical phase in our training workshop and first learn the basics of processing steel and other metals (e.g. bending, filing, welding, testing and measuring it) along with how to read complex technical drawings. Then it’s on to the practical side where you will work at various stations in our production facilities and industrial buildings. You will experience how construction elements for our buildings are created from raw materials and get to know various systems and machines – including CNC saw machines or robot-operated welding facilities.

This knowledge will be supplemented by cross-company phases where you will learn more about the areas of assembly or welding. After completing your training, you will be able to take over a broad range of tasks in production or continue your training to become a technician or master craftsperson.

• Training locations: Bielefeld and Plauen
• Duration of apprenticeship: 3.5 years
• Qualification required: at least GCSEs or equivalent

As an industrial mechanic, you will ensure that production facilities are ready for use: you will set up new machines, put them into operation and give them regular maintenance to guarantee faultless production. You will use CNC facilities to help prepare construction elements for new machines or install already finished components. Modern measuring instruments will be there for your use every day. Should any machine be defective, however, you will quickly be there to carry out the repair.

• Training locations: Bielefeld, Hamm, Vöhringen
• Duration of apprenticeship: 3.5 years
• Qualification required: at least GCSEs or equivalent

As a concrete/reinforced concrete worker, you will use construction plans to make steel structures – also known as reinforcements – that will later strengthen the concrete. You will then incorporate these structures into formwork, into which concrete is then poured. As a skilled craftsperson, you will also be able to work with many different materials, with tasks extending to checking and curing the concrete mix. The construction elements you will produce are then transported to construction sites and will enable multi-storey car parks, residential buildings or office buildings to be erected, for example. In the first two years of your apprenticeship, you will work through the general training to become a building construction worker. You will then specialise as a concrete/reinforced concrete worker in the third year.

• Training locations: Hamm, Vöhringen
• Duration of apprenticeship: 3 years
• Qualification required: at least GCSEs or equivalent

Training as a machine and plant operator means you will be responsible for the smooth operation of the production facilities that we use for making construction elements. You will set them up, put them into operation and run them, retrofit them and maintain them. That means it will be your job to detect and rectify any malfunctions.

Over the two-year training period, you will learn everything you need for the operation and supervision of our machines in our cross-company training centre in Hamm, in our own operations and in the vocational school.

• Training locations: Bielefeld, Hamm
• Duration of apprenticeship: 2 years
• Qualification required: at least GCSEs or equivalent

As a warehouse specialist you will be responsible for receiving and dispatching goods. You will coordinate the delivery of materials into the plant and check their quality, before transporting them within the company, storing and labelling them correctly. Your tasks will also include getting the materials ready for production: you will take the finished construction elements out of storage put them together and load them safely for further transport. That way you will help to ensure that our construction sites are supplied with materials on schedule. You will be supported by modern scanners and programs through all the stages of your work.

• Training locations: Bielefeld, Hamm and Plauen
• Duration of apprenticeship: 2 years
• Qualification required: at least GCSEs or equivalent

As part of your training as a metal technology specialist, you will learn the basics of metalworking as well as the planning, preparation and execution of our assembly activities. You will learn how to assemble a wide variety of components using different assembly techniques for our individual products. This may also involve working at heights. You will also acquire knowledge of the company's organizational structure.  

Once you have completed your training, you will be an expert in metalworking and work in a dynamically growing team on our construction sites. You will have the opportunity to take part in various further and advanced training measures. 

• Training locations: Bielefeld, Plauen
• Duration of apprenticeship: 2 years
• Qualification required: at least GCSEs or equivalent

During your apprenticeship as an electronics technician, you will gain a comprehensive insight into our electronic construction elements and systems in the units of electronic power supply, industrial operating systems or building systems and automation technology.

You will learn about system modifications and expansions, the installation of cable routing systems and power cables, setting up machinery and drive systems and installing switchgear. You will also programme, configure and test our systems and safety equipment. You will also maintain and test our systems and repair them if necessary.

Specialising in operating technology

Training locations: Bielefeld, Hamm, Plauen, Vöhringen
Duration of training: 3.5 years
Required qualification: At least intermediate school leaving certificate (technical secondary school leaving certificate)

Specialisation: Industrial electronics technician

Training location: Vöhringen
Duration of training: 2 years
Required qualification: at least intermediate school leaving certificate (technical secondary school leaving certificate)

As a process mechanic, you will ensure that surfaces such as metal are optimally protected from external influences. During your training, you will learn how to coat components both by hand and using machines. You will also carry out quality control checks on the coated parts and maintain the machine components. 
 

• Training locations: Bielefeld
• Training duration: 3 years
• Required qualification: at least a secondary school diploma

During your training, you will learn how to responsibly manufacture metal parts and components using specialized machines and tools. Your tasks will include setting up and operating punching and forming machines as well as monitoring and maintaining equipment. The finished components are cast into concrete parts. 
 

• Training locations: Hamm
• Training duration: 3 years
• Required qualification: at least a secondary school diploma

During your training to become a real estate management assistant, you will become a professional in the administration and management of commercially used real estate (focus: retail parks, office properties, halls and smaller shopping centers). You will look after tenants and landlords and deal with rental agreements, billing, budgets, maintenance and renovation work. ou will be in daily contact with tenants, service providers and owners and will solve all challenges related to building management. You will also become familiar with all commercial processes, such as master data maintenance, sales and service charge accounting, and contract management.

• Training location: Bielefeld, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg
• Duration of apprenticeship: 3 years
• Qualification required: A-Levels or equivalent