Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

Designation of occupation

Engraver (m/f)
Recognized by ordinance of 15. May 1998 (BGBl. I, p. 1020)

Duration of traineeship

3 years
One third of the training time is devoted to one of two specialist areas:

• intaglio engraving
• relief engraving

 
The venues for training are company and vocational school (Berufsschule)

Field of activity

Engravers execute engravings, damascening and guilloshing on metal and non-metal materials, working to customer specifications and their own designs. They produce templates, copies, patterns, punches, and moulds as well as punching, printing, embossing, stamping and cutting tools. They carry out their work either manually with tools, some of which are self-made, or mechanically on hand-operated or computer-controlled machines.

Occupational skills

Engravers

• plan work sequences and inspect and evaluate their finished work;
• work to working documents and technical drawings;
• make sketches, drawings and patterns;
• program and operate CNC engraving machines; this involves revising patterns, grinding milling cutters, and selecting and using them;
• produce signs such as front panels, instruction boards and company and information signs in steel, base metals and plastics and design colour schemes for engravings;
• engrave jewellery, utensils and objets d'art in traditional intaglio engraving style;
• use manual and machine engraving techniques to engrave pictorial images on concave and convex surfaces;
• execute raised or recessed engravings by hand or machine for stamps and tools for master pattern and remoulding work;
• produce positive and negative reliefs using manual and machine engraving;
• fabricate press, blow, jet and vacuum moulds using manual and machine engraving techniques;
• fabricate stamping tools for hollow and solid pressings of jewellery parts, buttons and medals on manual and CNC engraving machines and finish them;
• engrave letters, lines, surfaces, figures and ornaments using inlaying techniques;
• execute raised and recessed engravings on axially symmetrical workpieces.

Last modified on: December 12, 2006