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25/ 2003
Bonn, 09.07.2003
The new electricians' professions have arrived!
Starting gun for commencement of training: August 1, 2003
They are well-known, popular and sought after - the new electricians' professions in industry and the crafts, and after their modernisation they will even be more attractive for youth: The new training regulations for the electrician trades were issued by the Federal Ministry of the Economy and Labour on July 3, 2003! 1 Company training programmes can thus take up a completely modernised vocational training in a total of nine electrical professions, whose training regulations have been devised by experts from the field of in-company training and the Social Partners under the auspices of the Federal Institute for Vocational Training (BIBB).
Evidence that the field of practice in the training area is well prepared for the new regulations in companies and vocational schools was supplied at the Conference on the New Regulations for the Electronics Professions put on at the end of June by BIBB in concert with the Central Association of the Electronics Industry, the Central Association of German Electronics and Information Technology Crafts and Industriegewerkschaft Metall (the trade union IG-Metall): exhibitors and vocational school teachers presented initial strategies for the implementation of in-company training and collaboration with vocational schools before more than 500 participants. The fact that this was in particular made possible by the exemplary collaboration between the Federal government, the Social Partners and the German Länder in the procedure establishing the new regulations (KMK) was expressly emphasised by the President of the Federal Institute for Vocational Training, Prof. Dr. Helmut Pütz at the conference when he said: "The training regulations and the framework curricula, which are consistent with each other, show that the involvement of the Länder even before the decision-making process regarding the new structures and the domains of professions was completed was a good move. This procedure has withstood its test of fire as can be seen by the new regulations for the electronics professions.
Developments in the economy and working world have unleashed profound processes of change at enterprises since the last reform of electronics professions in 1987. This has also made requirements applying to skilled labour change fundamentally as well: The hallmark of skilled labour nowadays is work on complex technical systems, growing IT competence, integrated performance of tasks, self-organisation on the job, teamwork and communications skills - including in English!
Lots of IT and communications skills along with entrepreneurial thinking are for this reason three of the most important innovations in modern training in industrial electronics and craft electronics professions, for which the starting gun was sounded for new professional job categories on August 1.
The modernised or new industrial electronics professions are:
Automated technology electrician
Machinery and motive power technology electrician
Aviation technology systems electrician
Equipment, devices and systems electrician
Operating technology electrician.
In addition to the five modernised professional profiles (which evolved out of "older" categories), there are two completely new professions:
Building and infrastructural systems electrician
Systems computer specialist.
Both professions relate especially to fields of activity and businesses of enterprises which have not been able to train people thus far. Now these enterprises are also able to make training positions available for their own "junior talent" to obtain qualifications.
The modernised or new professions in the electronics crafts trades are:
Two training professions have been created out of three older professions under the rubric of "service from one set of hands", and one profession has been created for the crafts and industry:
Electronics specialist
With further specialisation in
- energy and building technology
- automation technology
- information and communications technology.
This profession with its three areas of specialisation integrates the three previous professions of "electrician", "telecommunications electrician" and parts of the "electromechanic" profession.
Systems electronics specialist
This profession has evolved out of the "old" profession of electromechanic" and has had additional elements added to it.
Machinery and motive power technology electrician
This is the first time that a joint training profession for industry and the crafts has been established (including for industrial training).
You will find detailed information on the new electronics professions, training regulations and the results of the conference held in Bonn on June 17-18, 2003 under http://www.bibb.de/elektroberufe
