Department III

Carpenter

Auszubildende bei der Arbeit mit Holz

What does the training offer you?

Training as a carpenter takes place in the 2nd and 3rd year of apprenticeship in the carpentry workshop of the Scientific Workshop. Here you will learn to understand drawings and produce individual pieces or complete furnishings. In the first year of your apprenticeship, you will attend vocational school full-time. Here, you will learn about typical wood joints and how to work with different materials such as solid wood, panel materials and plastics.

After completing your apprenticeship, many further opportunities will be open to you. As a carpenter, you can continue your training to become a master craftsman or technician, or pursue a degree in wood technology.

What makes training at the university so special?

Here, you will not only learn the typical basics of the profession in a team, but you will also see something new every day: we exclusively produce items for research and teaching at the university: customised individual parts that need to be adapted; experimental setups for lectures; items that do not yet exist... Almost anything is possible.

The nearly 4,000 employees and over 10,000 students at the university need our expertise in the workshop for interesting and exciting projects involving a wide variety of materials, which you will be working on.

What should you bring with you?

  • An interest in technology
  • Enjoyment of manual work
  • Enjoyment of creative work
  • Logical and spatial thinking
  • Ability to work in a team
  • Ability to work independently
  • Carefulness
  • Reliability

What can you count on?

  • Holidays: determined by collective agreement in accordance with TVA-L BBiG
  • Payment: determined by collective agreement in accordance with TVA-L BBiG
  • Theory: 1st year of apprenticeship full-time school, 2nd and 3rd years block teaching
  • Regular working hours
  • Committed trainers