Apprentice Industrial Mechanic Precision Instrument Making

DESY is looking for apprentice industrial mechanics in precision instrument making at its Hamburg site. The apprenticeship lasts 3.5 years and starts on 1 September 2027, full-time or part-time. In the first year you are prepared for working life in the in-house training workshop and learn machining on modern computer-controlled machines. Afterwards you work in the workshops on the DESY campus and help make and assemble parts and devices for the accelerators. Pay follows the TV-AVH rules.

• Basic skills in mechanical machining
• Planning of work processes
• Checking, marking out, aligning and clamping tools and workpieces
• Training on modern computer-controlled machines
• Programming and operating CNC machine tools
• Joining by screw/pin connections, gluing, soldering and fusion welding
• Production and assembly of components and complete devices

• Good Hauptschulabschluss or Realschulabschluss or (technical) university entrance qualification
• Manual skill
• Accuracy, care and a sense of responsibility
• Teamwork skills