Precitec cooperates with Josef-Durler-School and Favorite-School

“The company Precitec is very successful. But unfortunately it is not the same with us as it is with the FC Bayern Munich, where one may predict relatively certain, that they will become German champions for the next ten years. We have to face the international competition again each year and battle for customer´s favour. For this, we need our employees – they are the most important guarantee for success.” But this is exactly the problem of Dr Michael Bauer, managing director of the Precitec GmbH & Co. KG in Gaggenau, as he explains to the teachers and head boys and girls of his new cooperation partners Josef-Durler-School and Favorite-School when signing the contract. “We grow strongly, but at the same time face a major obstacle: We do not find specialists and apprentices as fast as we need them. Therefore, cooperation of this kind is extremely important for us as a company.”

With this cooperation, the global market leader in the area of laser material processing and measurement technology wants to “arouse the interest for technology and to motivate pupils to learn a technical profession”.

According to the instructor Michael Lorenz one can be trained in five professions at Precitec: electronic engineer, cutting machine operator, production mechanic, specialist for warehouse logistics and industrial clerk. “We have currently 16 apprentices, but would actually need 25 to 30. Again this year there are still apprentices missing for the commercial and technical occupations“, thus Lorenz.

Head boy Tekin would be interested in this. However, he first wants to approach his advanced technical college certificate next year. Also Gerold Wendelgaß, headmaster of the Josef-Durler-School Rastatt, would prefer it if his pupils would return to his school as apprentices one day. According to Wera Lang-Nold, headmistress of the Favorite-School Muggensturm-Kuppenheim, approximately half of her pupils begin an apprenticeship immediately after leaving the school. “The rest continues to go to school, often with my colleagues of the Josef-Durler-School.”