Garaventa Takes On Ten New Apprentices
With an orientation day at the end of July, the new apprentices at Garaventa took the stepped into working life: designers, cable car mechatronics, polymechanics or plant and equipment manufacturers are sought-after specialists. Garaventa has decided to train ten new apprentices again.
Garaventa has been developing and building cable cars all over the world for almost 100 years. The central Swiss company counts on highly trained specialists for the implementation of demanding projects. Often these come from within our own ranks: Garaventa is also offering three out of five apprenticeships a position in 2020, which is challenging due to the Covid 19 crisis.
Every year Garaventa offers between seven and ten young people an apprenticeship in five different professions. Ten new apprentices will start again in 2020. The new apprentices are engaged as polymechanics, plant and equipment builders, cable car mechatronics technicians (new), designers and as clerks. Garaventa is currently training a total of 31 young women and men.
Garaventa wants to pass on his highly specialized know-how to the next generation, as CEO Arno Inauen emphasizes. They say “We want to promote the next generation intensively because, as a company, we firstly have a social responsibility and secondly, we need specialized professionals. The industry offers perspectives, is developing rapidly and topics such as urban railways, alternative drives or smart technologies shape our employees' daily work!.
At the beginning of the information day, an unexpected highlight awaited the new apprentices: Ski ace Marco Odermatt told the motivated young people something about his everyday working life and gave some valuable tips on the topics of concentration and passion. In the afternoon, the learners were happy about another exciting item on the program: a visit to the new Stoosbahn - the steepest funicular in the world.
Garaventa AG is a Swiss company with headquarters in Rotkreuz and branches in Goldau, Uetendorf and Sion. The company is the Swiss part of the Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group and has established itself as a competence center with an international presence for aerial tramway, funicular, material ropeway and demanding rope hoist work. Garaventa is responsible for all of the Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group's ropeway projects in Switzerland. All functions and competencies for the special railways are made available to the group from Switzerland worldwide. Garaventa employs around 380 people in Switzerland.
Garaventa has been developing and building cable cars all over the world for almost 100 years. The central Swiss company counts on highly trained specialists for the implementation of demanding projects. Often these come from within our own ranks: Garaventa is also offering three out of five apprenticeships a position in 2020, which is challenging due to the Covid 19 crisis.
Every year Garaventa offers between seven and ten young people an apprenticeship in five different professions. Ten new apprentices will start again in 2020. The new apprentices are engaged as polymechanics, plant and equipment builders, cable car mechatronics technicians (new), designers and as clerks. Garaventa is currently training a total of 31 young women and men.
Garaventa wants to pass on his highly specialized know-how to the next generation, as CEO Arno Inauen emphasizes. They say “We want to promote the next generation intensively because, as a company, we firstly have a social responsibility and secondly, we need specialized professionals. The industry offers perspectives, is developing rapidly and topics such as urban railways, alternative drives or smart technologies shape our employees' daily work!.
At the beginning of the information day, an unexpected highlight awaited the new apprentices: Ski ace Marco Odermatt told the motivated young people something about his everyday working life and gave some valuable tips on the topics of concentration and passion. In the afternoon, the learners were happy about another exciting item on the program: a visit to the new Stoosbahn - the steepest funicular in the world.
Garaventa AG is a Swiss company with headquarters in Rotkreuz and branches in Goldau, Uetendorf and Sion. The company is the Swiss part of the Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group and has established itself as a competence center with an international presence for aerial tramway, funicular, material ropeway and demanding rope hoist work. Garaventa is responsible for all of the Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group's ropeway projects in Switzerland. All functions and competencies for the special railways are made available to the group from Switzerland worldwide. Garaventa employs around 380 people in Switzerland.
