Dream job found: Mechanic training is perfect for technology enthusiasts and inventors

Created: 07/02/2022, 19:48

By: Dominik Stallein

In the workshop: Lorenz Klauber (left) and Georgios Saridis are completing their training as industrial mechanics and cutting machine operators at Weber in Wolfratshausen.

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Two young men are enthusiastic about their mechanic training at Weber in Wolfratshausen.

The job holds many challenges - and future opportunities.

Wolfratshausen – Lorenz Klauber has always been enthusiastic about technical devices and large machines.

During his apprenticeship, the 19-year-old can combine this passion with a second hobby that he has enjoyed for a long time: handicrafts.

When he was at school, he tweaked bicycles at home in Beuerberg and made them roadworthy again.

Now he operates the really big machines in his job: Klauber is doing an apprenticeship as an industrial mechanic at the company Weber Schraubautomat in Wolfratshausen.

Dream job found: Mechanic training is perfect for technology enthusiasts and inventors

What excites him and his colleague Georgios Saridis – the 24-year-old will be a cutting machine operator – about their training: At the end of the working day, they hold their work in their hands.

And they accompany the whole process with all their senses.

“We can see, hear and smell our work,” says Saridis.

This is also necessary on the cutting machines that he operates.

"They're incredibly precise devices, but I have to control them all the time."

In his everyday life, the 24-year-old turns, mills, drills or grinds components on so-called CNC machine tools with sophisticated control technology.

He programs them himself and sets them up in such a way that the components ultimately fit the customer's requirements with an accuracy of a thousandth of a millimeter.

From the individual components – Saridis calls them “organs” in conversation – Klauber and his colleagues build screwdriving machines for companies, the “body”, to stay with the image.

"Above all, we build unique machines," says Klauber.

Hardly any product that leaves the factory in the Wolfratshausen industrial park has ever been built like this.

This makes the work particularly exciting for the two young men: "You always do something completely new, there is a lot of variety in it."

Mechanic at Weber: "Dirty hands - clean money"

Anyone who wants to hold their own in the job shouldn't be afraid to lend a hand.

"The work is not for people who don't want to get their hands dirty," says Saridis.

This is not a problem for the man from Geretsried: “Dirty hands – clean money” is something he often heard as a child and took it to heart.

Colleague Klauber qualifies: "It does involve work, but the job is not inhumanely physical." In his eyes, another requirement is more important than excessive fitness: "Anyone who is interested in technology can really enjoy the job." Spatial imagination is also important, "a little understanding of math and natural sciences are part of it, even if we go through the most important things again at vocational school, of course."

In Weber's own training workshop, the prospective mechanics get to know the work steps.

Saridis: "We can try out a lot, but we can also start real production at an early stage."

They are certain that Saridis and Klauber's jobs are "professions with a future - above all because you can specialize in a field if you want to and still get a wide range of training," says the 24-year-old.

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