Stimulés et ­encouragés au niveau de la ­formation

During your apprenticeship you will get to know different departments. That means that at the end of your apprenticeship you will be a qualified administrative allrounder.

The first year of apprenticeship you will work in the order processing/export department. You are co-responsible for the correct order entries, the creation of delivery notes and the punctual goods collection by the haulage contractor. In parallel, you will be introduced to reception work. You will learn how to use the telephone switchboard, the distribution of mail, the catering organization as well as the reception of guests and visitors. You can demonstrate and strengthen your communication and organizational skills.

One milestone at the end of the first year of apprenticeship is the final examination. It will be educationally challenging. Certainly, the advice of other commercial apprentices might be useful for you and might encourage you in your learning.

In the second year of your apprenticeship, you will support two departments simultaneously. This requires good self-organization and flexibility from you. On the one hand, you will be introduced to the Marketing & Sales department. There you will check customer orders in the in-house sales department, work in the repair department and take care of internal and group-wide communication with the marketing team. Here, in addition to writing talent and English, creativity is often required. On the other hand, you will work in the AVOR and purchasing departments. As a clerk in AVOR, you are responsible for monitoring stock levels. You also work actively in the warehouse for a few days so that you know our pump components. In the purchasing department you will be co-responsible for the purchase of these components from our suppliers.

Finally, in the third and last year of apprenticeship you will work in the financial accounting department. Here, you could live your flair for numbers. Vendor and debtor accounting will be your daily business there. Correct cash management will be only one of your areas of responsibility. On one day, you will switch workplaces and become part of the HR team. There, you will help with recruitment, record entries/exits and assist with payroll processing. At the same time, you will prepare for your final examination which you will certainly pass successfully.

The three years of year of apprenticeship will fly by. During your apprenticeship you will have gained insight into several different departments and after your apprenticeship you will have a clear idea of your strengths. You will know which working field you like the most and in which field you would like to work and upgrade your education as a merchant in future.

In case of questions, please do not hesitate to contact our career advisor Rahel Radius: 041 925 57 38 or rahel.radius@knf.com

Please find more information on the merchant with Swiss Federal VET Diploma apprenticeship on the website: berufsberatung.ch

During your apprenticeship you will have gained insight into several different departments. You will know the different design engineer’s tasks – from the new development and managing of products to the realization of complex devices and mechanisms.

In case of questions, please do not hesitate to contact our career advisor André Guedes: 041 925 56 50 or andre.guedes@knf.com

Please find more information on the design engineer with Swiss Federal VET Diploma apprenticeship on the website: berufsberatung.ch

During your apprenticeship you will get to know different departments. That means that at the end of your apprenticeship you will be a qualified design engineer.

In the first year of apprenticeship you will take several courses to gain the basic education at Schindler Vocational Training in Ebikon. At the same time, you will internally work in the following different departments at KNF Flodos: Assembly department, goods receipt department, warehouse, testing department and workshop. This way, you will get to know the company, the processes and our products.

The second year of apprenticeship you will work in the new product development department. You will assist in developing and designing new products. The development of equipment and devices will encourage your creativity and your constructive skills. You will finalize your second year of apprenticeship with a theoretical partial examination in the vocational school.

Now, your basic education is completed. It is time for an internal change to the product management department. You will manage our existing products and assist in designing customer-specific project pumps. The expansion of our modular pumping system will be part of your tasks.

Finally, the second half of the fourth year of apprenticeship you will work in the product development department again. Alongside the daily business, we will prepare you for your final examination. You will independently design and develop projects from A–Z.

After the last term of your apprenticeship where you will have worked as a fully-fledged design engineer you will be ready for the successful completion of your final examination.