Foundry engineer

What do I need to know about the profession?

Foundry engineer take care of factory equipment and production systems, produce components and install them.

General

  • Duration of apprenticeship: 3.5 years
  • Required school-leaving qualification:
    good secondary school certificate (Haupt-/Realschule)
  • Block school classes in Stuttgart

Further education opportunities

  • Master craftsman
  • Technician
  • Bachelor of Engineering

Activities

  • Setting automated high-pressure die casting plants
  • Troubleshooting in the event of faults
  • Manufacture of cast parts
  • Setup of high-pressure die casting and deburring tools
  • Preventive maintenance

Requirements profile

  • Accurate way of working
  • Skilled craftsmanship
  • Interest in chemistry, physics and maths
  • Physical fitness
  • Ability to think logically
  • Technical understanding

What will I learn at the training centre?

Core qualifications

  • Basics of metals technology

        - Filing
        - Sawing
        - Drilling
        - Thread cutting
        - Rubbing
        - Mounting
        - Servicing and repairing

  • Basics of turning
  • Basics of milling

Core and specialist qualifications

  • Pneumatics
  • Electric pneumatics

Core and specialist qualifications

  • ­Hydraulics
  • PLC S7-TIA portal
  • Robotics
  • No courses in the training centre.

What will I learn in the specialist departments?

Specialist qualifications

  • Logistics
  • Melting
  • Tool making

Specialist qualifications

  • Setting up
  • Maintenance production
  • Die Casting
  • Gravity Die Casting

Specialist qualifications

  • Technology
  • quality assurance
  • construction
  • Die Cating
  • Grafity Die Casting
  • Field of activity with operational task

Questions & answers on the application process at Handtmann

Applications via the online portal are preferred.

However, you still have the possibility to apply either by post or by mail.

  • Covering letter
  • Full curriculum vitae
  • Last 3 school records
  • Certificates

The application portal is open from July of the previous year.

 

You will receive confirmation of receipt after you have sent your application. You will therefore know that your documentation has definitely reached Handtmann.

Your application documents will then be read personally and considered with respect to suitability by the training team. Therefore it may take a few weeks before you receive a reply. Thank you for your understanding. Even if it may take some time to consider your application, this on no account reflects on your chances of being accepted for the position.

If your application and the requirements of your career aspiration match, we will invite you for a personal interview. This is usually with the respective instructor.

Please refer to the Directions section to find out how to get to our locations.

You will receive a written response to the success of your application in the weeks after the interview. If your application is confirmed, we will send you a trainee contract and further information.

We ask for your patience. There may be several applicants and a decision can only be reached once all the interviews are complete.

Of course you can apply again after an unsuccessful application. It is quite possible that a suitable trainee position will be available at a later date or that a skilled worker position is vacant after your training. We look forward to receiving your application.

Your contacts

Sarah Heim
Sarah Heim
Specialist Commercial Training

Phone: +49 7351 342-2123
Jessica Schultheiß
Jessica Schultheiß
Specialist Commercial Training

Phone: +49 7351 342-2145

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