For Secondary School Students: First Steps in Joining the Workforce

What kind of wood are you made of? Are you the kind of person who would enjoy keeping everything up to speed by operating a forklift truck in a warehouse or yard? Are you fascinated by production systems and equipment? Are you good with numbers and like to handle business and back office tasks? In all of these cases, you’re made to measure for SWISS KRONO in Heiligengrabe, Germany.

Training at SWISS KRONO Germany

Whether you are assigned to production, sales, administration or marketing, one thing we can guarantee is that you’ll never be bored while training at SWISS KRONO Germany.

At our large international company, you will spend time in many different areas and departments. You will also get acquainted with our whole range of eco-friendly engineered wood products as well as the environmentally responsible construction systems and healthy buildings they enable.

We’re happy to give you glimpses of our firm and the five professions that you can learn here. The palette extends from electronics specialist for plant equipment across industrial clerk to machine and plant operator. As we export our products to more than 80 countries, even as a trainee you will also deal with foreign customers and gain valuable experience in this way.

In the following, we give you an idea of what to expect at SWISS KRONO. We also regularly present ourselves at regional job and training fairs.

Training Commendation from the Federal Employment Agency

In 2014 the Neuruppin office of the German Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) honoured SWISS KRONO Germany for its outstanding work to train and promote young people by issuing it a training commendation. This accolade is awarded exclusively to companies that offer young people valuable support for their work-related and personal development while providing them with role models.

The criteria for qualifying for this commendation include having a certain minimum number of training positions, hiring trainees who complete the programme and offering opportunities to do internships. SWISS KRONO Germany received it in the “Classic” category due to the high quality of our training activities, the additional help and assistance we provide to trainees and the fact that we offer employment contracts to trainees who complete the programme.

Internships at SWISS KRONO Germany

Are you a salesperson with a talent for selling? Or are you especially good at mastering technical challenges? Does wood fascinate you? If you aren’t quite sure yet what line of work would be right for you, why don’t you do an internship with us to test your abilities and interests while getting a taste of a variety of different activities? SWISS KRONO is one of the biggest companies in Brandenburg. From purchasing across production to sales of our wood-based products: you’d be hard put to find such a wide spectrum of professions under one corporate roof.