Training position as a work educator with prior internship (6 months) in carpentry (100%)
Herisau
Key information
- Publication date:16 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Herisau
Job summary
The dreischiibe Foundation is a non-profit social enterprise. We create job opportunities in Herisau, St. Gallen, and Flawil for people with mental impairments.
Tasks
- Support and guide employees in the woodworking context.
- Help develop products and optimize production processes.
- Ensure safety and assist in order planning and organization.
Skills
- Completed vocational training in woodworking required.
- Strong communication and team collaboration skills.
- Good IT user knowledge essential.
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2025-09-15
The dreischiibe foundation is an innovative, non-profit social enterprise. In our versatile service and commercial center in Herisau, St. Gallen, and Flawil, we create professional and personal perspectives for people with mental disabilities at 220 work, training, and integration places. In the day center and meeting center, we promote social integration with 60 visitor places.
For the carpentry area in Herisau, we offer from January 1, 2026, or by arrangement a
training position as a work educator with prior internship (6 months) in carpentry (100%)
Together with our employees, we produce a wide range of orders for our corporate and private customers, mostly within the framework of small and medium-sized series:
- Customer gifts
- Wooden packaging
- Refreshing gastro garden furniture
- Beekeeping magazines and various other own products
- Support services also in external woodworking companies on site
Your tasks
- Assisting in the support and guidance of employees in the work educational context
- Co-development of products, aids, and optimized production processes
- Checking orders throughout the entire production process
- Co-responsibility for occupational safety
- Assistance in planning and organizing orders
- Various administrative tasks on the PC
- Participation in area meetings as well as internal training
Your profile
- Completed vocational training in the wood trade required (carpenter preferred)
- Minimum age 25 years
- Motivation and joy in working with people with a mental disability
- Independent working style, sense of responsibility, and humor
- Communicative, open, and team-oriented personality with a positive attitude
- Good IT user skills
The dreischiibe offers
- Internship support and careful introduction to the work field
- Insight into an interesting and versatile activity in the professional field of work education
- Work in an open and active team
- Professional feedback as a prerequisite for further training in work education
- Internship salary
- Workplace
- 9100 Herisau
- Herisau
- 9100
- Herisau
