Do you have manual skills and can imagine working on different construction sites? Perhaps also at a height of several meters or in a tunnel? Then take off with us on an industrial training course.
Do you want to make a big move? Construction machine operators do just that and operate construction equipment and machines on construction sites for buildings and civil engineering. During your training, you climb into the driving cabin of shovel excavators, tracked shovel excavators and cranes and move earth, concrete, steel and construction materials. With technical understanding and manual skills, you set up the construction equipment, maintain it and retrofit it. Want to directly get started? Then apply for a training course as construction machine operator.For training for this profession, you require a qualified secondary school diploma. You will find all other requirements and contents of the skilled profession in the job offer of our job search.
A day in the life of Josef Radosky, Apprentice construction equipment operator
A taste for big machines
“I move mountains—even during my apprenticeship”. Josef Radosky is learning how to handle excavators and rollers at HOCHTIEF. Sensitivity, calmness, concentration-these are what matters on the way to becoming a construction equipment operator, says Radosky. During the construction of the A1 bridge in Leverkusen, he allowed himself to be accompanied by the camera for a day and revealed what cohesion means to him: that you support colleagues with things that are not part of your actual area of responsibility.
Concrete and steel-reinforced concrete worker
Are you looking for a steady manual job? As concrete and steel-reinforced concrete worker, you qualify yourself with skills in cutting, bending and laying concrete-reinforcing steel. You prepare concrete mixtures, fit prefabricated steel-reinforced concrete components and work on construction sites in building construction and civil engineering. After work you see what you have achieved. Become a concrete and steel-reinforced concrete worker and kick off your professional career with solid training!
For this qualified profession, you require a qualified secondary school diploma. You will find all other requirements and contents of the skilled profession in the job offer of our job search.
Duct builder
If you have always wanted to know how ducts run in the ground, then duct builder is just the right job for you. You build waste water pipes and waste water systems and maintain them. You lay bricks to build manholes, lay pipes, build construction pits and install access shafts, rain inlets and shaft covers. With your job as duct builder, you ensure that everything flows.
For this skilled profession, you require a secondary school qualification or entrance qualification for a technical secondary school. You will find all other requirements and contents for the skilled profession in the job offer of our job search.
Trainees from HOCHTIEF stick together. At the training center, we also show each other what manual skills are important for the job.
Mouhammed Singer, trainee construction machine operator
Carpenter
Is wood just your thing? Then become a carpenter and make wooden structures and timber constructions on our construction sites. Building interior fittings, scaffolding, roof frameworks and engineering wooden constructions are the tasks that face you. On large construction sites you construct molds, into which concrete is poured—so-called formwork—to build supports, girders and walls made of steel-reinforced concrete. You also prepare technical drawings, sketches and laying plans. With this job as carpenter, you not only build roof, wall and ceiling constructions, but also your professional future.
For this skilled profession, you require a secondary school qualification or entrance qualification for a technical secondary school. You will find all other requirements and contents of the skilled profession in the job offer of our job search.
Road builder
Without you, nothing works! As road builder, you lay the cornerstone for any further progress, by performing earthworks, leveling and compacting soil masses. You build construction pits and transportation routes and work on construction sites in the field of supply and disposal technology. You also build slopes and roadside reinforcements, pave pedestrian paths and tarmac roads. Follow your professional path with a training course as road builder.
For this skilled profession, you require a secondary school qualification or entrance qualification for a technical secondary school. You will find all other requirements and contents for the skilled profession in the job offer of our job search.
Electronics technician for operating technology
Who keeps the construction site moving? Maybe you soon will! Electronics technicians for operating technology get our construction equipment up and running. Amongst other things, you install the measuring, control and drive engineering. Are you thrilled by so much technology rather than overawed? Are your strengths mathematics and natural sciences? Then start your professional career with a training course as electronics technician for operating technology.
For this training course, you require entrance qualification for technical secondary school, successful completion of a one-year industrial/technical vocational school or university entrance qualification. You will find all other requirements and contents for the skilled profession in the job offer of our job search.
Construction kits rather than dollhouses
"As a child, I often sat next to my grandfather and took construction kits apart instead of playing with dollhouses," says Angelina Porschen. Just like her grandfather, she became an electronics technician and is working for HOCHTIEF in Cologne. She cannot confirm the prejudice that a rough tone prevails on construction sites: "Especially when female colleagues are part of the team, colleagues treat each other more friendly, which of course decisively improves the working atmosphere for everyone."
Mechatronics technician
Do you have plenty of sensitivity and are interested in machinery and electronics? Mechatronics technicians combine precisely these two attributes with the tasks demanded. You install and maintain complex machinery, facilities and systems and, in doing so, comply with statutory safety regulations. So, if you would like to install and test mechatronic systems, and believe you are capable of developing pneumatic controls, you should start your professional career with a training course to become a mechatronics technician.
For this training course, you require entrance qualification for technical secondary school, successful completion of a one-year industrial/technical vocational school or university entrance qualification. You will find all other requirements and contents for the skilled profession in the job offer of our job search.
Mechatronics technician for refrigeration engineering
As a mechatronics technician for refrigeration engineering, you ensure the right climate. Because you are in charge of all tasks related to refrigeration, air conditioning and ventilation systems. You install regulating components and construct pipe and duct networks. You also learn how to handle refrigerants. Would you like to know exactly how that functions, and directly start your professional career? Then apply for a training course as mechatronics technician for refrigeration engineering.
For this training course, you require entrance qualification for technical secondary school, successful completion of a one-year industrial/technical vocational school or university entrance qualification. You will find all other requirements and contents for the skilled profession in the job offer of our job search.
Do you have any further questions?
You can simply reach us via WhatsApp on +49 1525 5260033.
We would like your application process to be as trouble-free and, above all, as successful as possible. That’s why we are providing appropriate tips for you here.
Your letter should have your address, contact data, the current date, a subject heading citing the job you are applying for, the date when you would like to start and the location where you want to work. Address the letter to the contact person of the job offer.
To find out whether we suit each other, we are interested in your school education, professional career and your interests. We can best find out all that in your curriculum vitae. For this purpose, structure your tabular curriculum vitae with a clear overview and provide your personal data and qualifications.
A job interview can be a challenging situation. You should nevertheless attempt to just be yourself and try to relax. We would like to talk to you in a pleasant and easygoing atmosphere and get to know you as a person. During the interview, you do not need to present your documents again—we already know them. You also don’t have to pass a verbal examination.