Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

Designation of occupation

Packaging mechanic
Recognized by ordinance of 4th of september 2001.

Duration of traineeship

3 years
The venues for training are company and part-time vocational school (Berufsschule)

Field of activity

Packaging mechanics work in industrial plants producing especially letter envelopes, auto-adhesive labels, collapsible cardboard boxes, flexible packagings, cardboard packaging, tubes, corrugated cardboard and products made thereof.

Occupational skills

Packaging mechanics

• create packagings independently, producing samples in the process,
• prepare tools and production systems,
• install production facilities for packaging production and operate them,
• produce packagings,
• control and optimize production processes according to quality standards and specifications,
• including the use of control engineering elements,
• carry out measuring and testing tasks in the framework of quality control,
• select product-specific materials and production processes,
• import, transfer and convert data and use hardware and software in accordance with the demands of the task,
• plan out production processes independently or as part of a team, taking the intended use of the finished product and the technical requirements of the production process into account,
• process metallic materials manually and by machine,
• work customer-oriented and take economic and ecological aspects into account.

Apart from the basic qualifications that are binding for all trainees, special skills in at least two of the following areas should be chosen to adapt the qualification to different fields of production.

Possible choices are:

• control engineering,
• tools manufacturing,
• finishing technology,
• metrology and laboratory technology,
• control desk technology and inline production,
• computer aided sample production,
• packaging design,
• international competence.
  

Last modified on: December 12, 2006