Textile Production Mechanic

– A large company family with a medium-sized business culture
– Modern equipment and the latest technologies
– Short decision-making processes
– An apprenticeship with room for personal and professional development
– Coverage of schoolbook costs
– Capital-forming benefits
– Company pension scheme
– Very good chances of being taken on if you convince us during your apprenticeship
– Further training and career development opportunities after your apprenticeship

You should have at least a good lower secondary school qualification or an intermediate secondary school qualification to start the apprenticeship.

Do you have a good technical understanding, manual skills and enjoy precise, careful work? Then you already have some of the most important qualities for an apprenticeship as a Textile Production Mechanic!

Our company family values honest and open communication as well as teamwork. You should therefore be able to integrate into an existing team and enjoy working with others.

The high quality standards that have always been important to us at trigema apply not only to our products but also to our employees, whom we both challenge and support. To help us maintain this quality together with you in the future, you should bring:

• patience and precision
• willingness to learn and perform
• logical thinking
• punctuality and reliability
• a sense of responsibility

The apprenticeship lasts 3 years.

The apprenticeship always begins in September of the respective year.

A career as a Textile Production Mechanic opens up a wide range of opportunities. After your apprenticeship, you can work not only in the textile sector but also, for example, in the automotive or metalworking industries. Further training as a technician can open up additional options, such as working as a service technician.

Please send your complete application documents, including your cover letter, CV, certificates and, where applicable, further references such as certificates, to:
Murat Gül
Email: ausbildung@trigema.club
Phone: +49 (0) 7475/88 - 263

The quickest way is to use our application form.

If you have any questions about the apprenticeship as a Textile Production Mechanic, you can also contact the responsible trainer, Murat Gül.

The application process for the Textile Production Mechanic apprenticeship usually works as follows: You send us your complete application documents, including your cover letter, CV, certificates and, where applicable, further references such as certificates, by email, as a printed application or directly via our application form.

Once you have uploaded all your documents, you will receive a confirmation of receipt from us. After carefully reviewing your documents, we will invite you to an initial personal meeting if your application has sparked our interest.

During this meeting, we will discuss questions about the profession, the company and you as a person. We would also like to find out whether we are a good fit and share similar values and goals. If both sides feel the meeting went well, you will be invited to a trial day.

During the trial day, you will get to know your area of responsibility, your working environment and your future colleagues. This will give you an impression of everyday working life within our company family.

If both you and we can imagine working together afterwards, you will receive an apprenticeship offer from us.

As a Textile Production Mechanic apprentice, you earn €1,310 gross per month in your first year. In the second year, the apprenticeship pay increases to €1,360. In the third year, you earn €1,445.

You will work in the knitting department at trigema, become involved in all processes from the beginning of your apprenticeship and be given defined areas of responsibility. Throughout the different stages of your apprenticeship and individual work processes, our experienced trainers will provide you with active support.

Your tasks include operating, setting up and maintaining our knitting machines and their yarn creels for the production of our high-quality products.

Your activities include adjusting yarn feed, yarn tension, take-down and fabric size, replacing broken needles, repairing yarn breaks and changing gears.

You will get to know the machines in detail and be responsible for monitoring, maintaining and repairing the knitting machines as well as checking production processes and carrying out quality assurance measures.

For the regular production of fabric rolls, a set of three machines is put into operation. One of your tasks, for example, is to connect the yarn to the corresponding creel.

In your first year, you will be introduced to the different yarns and knitting machines, with a focus on textile production. You will also learn the basics of the different knitting machines, such as which yarn quality is processed on which machine and what the individual machine components are called.

In the second year, this basic knowledge is developed further. The focus remains on production, but also includes setting up and repairing the machines. For example, you will learn how to insert needles correctly and how to adjust yarn feed and take-down tension.

In the third year, the focus increasingly shifts to mechanical processes. You can now demonstrate the knowledge and skills you have acquired in practice. For example, you may be assessed on whether you can change the yarn quality currently being processed on a knitting machine independently and at an appropriate pace. You will also learn more complex processes, such as adjusting yarn guides with a dial gauge or setting the distance between needle channels.

The vocational school for the academic part of the Textile Production Mechanic apprenticeship is the Philipp-Matthäus-Hahn School in Balingen. Lessons take place in blocks throughout the apprenticeship, meaning that after two months in the company you will spend one month at school.

In addition to general subjects such as German, English and social studies, vocational subjects are also taught.

In mathematics, for example, you learn how to calculate fibre material costs, material quantities, commercial weights and mixing ratios. In physics, you learn how to read block diagrams and circuit diagrams. Technical classes cover topics including the maintenance, care, repair and servicing of production machinery.

At the end of your apprenticeship, the theoretical part of the final examination covers the material taught in all school subjects.

The practical part takes place in the company in the form of an assignment for which you prepare documentation.

For this assignment, you receive a fabric sample that you must produce in a specified quantity and quality. First, you decide which machine you will use to produce the fabric.

The main part of the examination involves converting the machine accordingly and preparing it for fabric production. You must take all relevant factors into account, such as staff availability.

You prepare documentation describing the entire process and how you completed the individual steps. This documentation is submitted to the IHK.

Based on this documentation, you will be asked questions during the oral IHK examination about the assignment itself and your professional practice in general.

In addition to working directly as a Textile Production Mechanic after your apprenticeship, you can pursue further training as a technician or master craftsman. There are also various other development opportunities available to you at trigema.

For example, you can obtain a trainer qualification or work as a machine operator or quality inspector. Once you have demonstrated your skills during your first few years, you may also have opportunities to become a department manager, shift manager or assistant to the production management, up to a position as production manager.