As a predominantly nationally active family business with 75 employees, we have been a reliable supplier to the timber industry and timber trade for more than 116 years. Our customer proximity and our good service are highly valued by our customers. We want to remain at the forefront in the future: with top quality and outstanding service.

We are therefore looking for a:
Apprentice woodworking mechanic - specializing in the sawmill industry
Location: 74429 Sulzbach-Laufen

A varied challenge for you, because as a Apprentice woodworking mechanic specializing in the sawmill industry you will ensure that something new is created from the natural and living raw material wood. The wood you process is used, for example, as a building material for houses, interior fittings or in the furniture industry.

Description

3 years of dual training in the company and vocational school (block teaching)

Responsibilities

• Working in the sawmill is teamwork. You don't just work here, you can also make friends here. - Working with wood also means working with other materials, state-of-the-art machines and technologies. As a woodworking mechanic, you will, for example, sharpen saw blades or maintain them.
• As a woodworking mechanic specializing in the sawmill industry, you will also glue boards together. This is used to produce glulam beams for modern timber engineering (e.g. 7-storey timber high-rise buildings or huge, self-supporting halls).
• Woodworking mechanics specializing in the sawmill industry produce all modern wood-based panels. As the proportion of solid wood in the furniture industry is decreasing, you ensure a perfect material basis.
• Modern sawmill systems need to be maintained and serviced. This also falls within the remit of the woodworking mechanic.

Job description

• Operation of saws, milling machines and other equipment.
• Processing of the raw material wood into wooden components such as boards and beams (sawn timber).
• Timber transportation with large vehicles such as wheel loaders and forklift trucks.
• Care and maintenance of high-quality systems, modern machines and various tools.

Main tasks

• Assessment of round timber according to its type and quality
• Operating and monitoring modern machines and systems
• Assessment of sawn timber according to its type and quality
• Production of various sawn timber products
• Sharpening saws, knives and milling cutters
• Further processing of the cut goods
• Lumber drying
• Order picking of finished products and warehousing

School prerequisites / requirements

• Good secondary school leaving certificate
• Fun with wood as a natural product
• Technical interest
• Craftsmanship
• Ability to work in a team
• Independent work

Course of the training

• Dual training in the company and vocational school
  (Block courses twice a year, 5-6 weeks each in Göppingen)
• Woodworking mechanic examinations take place as a stretched final examination: Part 1 after approx. 1.5 years (usually in spring) and Part 2 at the end of the 3-year apprenticeship (summer or winter).
• 3 years training period

Benefits

• Attractive training allowance
• Provision of free accommodation during the vocational school period (block teaching) in Göppingen

• Energy crisis-proof job thanks to own biomass power plant with 100% biopower
• Familiar working atmosphere and exciting company events
• A modern and pleasant working environment where individuality counts
• A comprehensive induction in the team
• A secure job in a company that is aware of its personal responsibility and social obligations to protect the climate and implements them
• Responsible / varied tasks

Perspective

• Good chances of being taken on after successful completion
• Promotion and development opportunities within the company
• Further training as a sawmill foreman, industrial foreman, technician specializing in wood - or even a degree.

You can also read more information about this profession at
http://www.holzbearbeitungsmechaniker.com/
(BSH - Förderverein BSH Göppingen e.V.)

Since the beginning of Hirschbach's history in Sulzbach-Laufen, we have focused on quality, nature conservation, closeness to nature and responsible timber trading. Our guiding principle is a family environment with a passionate penchant for innovation and a focus on the future.

To this end, we make sure we have modern technical equipment and, in order to keep our environmental protection promise, we put our biomass power plant into operation in June 2020; this means that we can now supply not only our company but also surrounding households with 100% of bio-electricity.