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Your Apprenticeship at SPALECK

Industrial Mechanic

A Passion for Technology Meets the Power of Innovation

Your Craft for a Clean Future

You don’t just want to build anything—you want to build machines that make a difference around the world? As a trainee industrial mechanic at SPALECK, you’ll play a direct role in manufacturing highly complex screening machines for the international recycling industry. With us, theory becomes practice right away: You’ll install systems that ensure recyclable materials remain in the cycle all around the globe.

3.5 years of training

Dual Training: Theory & Practice

High chances of being hired

What do industrial mechanics do?

Here's what your work on our screening machines looks like

As an industrial mechanic, you will manufacture components and assemblies that are then assembled into a complete machine. The production process is monitored and constantly optimized. You will subsequently maintain the finished machines and repair them as needed.

Here’s what to expect during your training

Training Content

To assemble our world-leading screening technology, you’ll first learn about the materials and how to read blueprints. During your apprenticeship at SPALECK in Bocholt, you’ll learn everything from tapping threads and installing bearings to the complete assembly of our screening machines. You will then inspect and measure the machines and subsequently commission them at our international customers’ sites.

Here's what you should bring to the training program

Your Profile as an Industrial Mechanic

If you combine manual dexterity with an interest in technology and enjoy working on machines that really have to work in the end, you’ll be a perfect fit for our team.

Your contacts

If you have any questions about jobs, training, internships, or college, our colleagues in Human Resources will be happy to help you.

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All About Spaleck

Everything You Need to Know

FAQs

Here are some questions about the industrial mechanic apprenticeship program. We’d be happy to advise you on other options.

What does dual training mean?

You will alternate between the company (practice) and vocational school (theory). In the early days, you will also spend a lot of time in our training workshop to perfect the basics of the trade (filing, sawing, drilling) in peace and quiet before moving on to the big machines.

What is special about training as an industrial mechanic at SPALECK?

You work on machines that make the world cleaner. As an industrial mechanic with us, you will build screening machines for the international recycling industry, for example. So you will see directly how your work contributes to environmental technology.