What do you do as a production mechanic?
As a production mechanic, you are a real team player: you assemble components and assemblies on complex production systems as part of a team. You will also adjust the machines and systems, check and test the products and rework them if necessary. By ensuring and optimizing work processes, you will make an important contribution to the success of our products and become a specialist in the assembly of components or assemblies. You will learn what is required for this during your dual training. Small components require precision and sensitivity, while large machines require exact calculations and advance planning.
By screwing, soldering or gluing, you will ensure that each individual part is in the right place and that everything works perfectly. You follow technical drawings and assembly plans. If you have an idea of how assembly could be optimized, you build the appropriate tools and ensure that production runs even more smoothly. Because you carry out all the work steps yourself, you are also the quickest to recognize where there is a problem. That’s why you are also the person to contact when it comes to maintenance and servicing.
Where are you needed?
In production mechanics, your working environment is just as varied as the devices you assemble. Your advantage is that you can work on pretty much any technical device after your dual training. That’s why you have a free choice of industries and can follow your interests. In addition to mechanical engineering, the automotive industry could also be an employer for you after your apprenticeship, as could manufacturers of medical technology or companies in the aerospace industry.
What should you bring with you?
A versatile job also requires versatile skills. Having these is even more important than a very good secondary school leaving certificate or intermediate school leaving certificate, which your training company usually wants. As a production mechanic, you will sometimes work with very small components. This requires precision and accuracy. The next day, however, you may have to move heavy components. Physical fitness is also important here. In both cases, it is important to know what the components are intended for. Technical understanding will help you here.
Your apprenticeship at a glance
- Duration 3.5 years
- Theory at the vocational college, practice at the training company
- Training content ranges from materials science and assembly of components to production monitoring and quality control to measurement technology and analysis of electrical cables.
- After your dual training, you can continue your education in various directions. Depending on where your strengths lie, further training to become a technician in the field of mechanical engineering, for example, may be an option. If you are interested in taking on organizational and management tasks, then further training to become a technical business administrator is an attractive option for you. But you can also take on more responsibility with further training as an industrial business administrator, especially in your company’s accounting department.