Apprenticeship Designer EFZ
Otto Hofstetter AG
Uznach
Key information
- Publication date:07 January 2026
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Uznach
Job summary
Join Otto Hofstetter AG for a hands-on training experience! Enjoy a supportive and friendly work environment.
Tasks
- First-year includes courses in drawing and design techniques.
- Second-year involves a 6-month workshop internship across departments.
- Final years focus on internal training and exam preparation.
Skills
- Strong grades in math, geometry, physics, and languages required.
- Enjoyment of technical contexts and logical thinking.
- Teamwork, reliability, and computer proficiency are essential.
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What does your apprenticeship specifically look like?
1st year
- 6 weeks drawing technique course (external)
- 5 weeks design technique course (external)
- 5 weeks construction technique course (external)
- CAD training (internal)
- Deepening of learned material
- Training in cross-professional skills
2nd year
- 6 months workshop internship. Training in various departments: Quality assurance / Tool assembly / Tool test injection molding / Training workshop / Tool programming
- Additional CAD training
- Training in cross-professional skills
- Partial exam
3rd and 4th year
- Internal training in the following areas:
- Design department PET and PAC as well as AVOR (work preparation)
- Preparation for final apprenticeship exam (LAP)
- IPA (final project productive)
Skills
- Good grades in mathematics, geometry, and physics as well as in languages
- Enjoyment of technical contexts
- Very good spatial imagination
- Logical thinking
- Precise working method
- Reliability
- Perseverance and sense of responsibility
- Ability to work in a team
- Enjoyment of computer work
Why Otto Hofstetter AG?
The 6 advantages of an apprenticeship at Otto Hofstetter
1) You do your training at an international, well-known company.
2) You learn at a company whose apprentices are repeatedly successful in professional competitions.
3) You benefit from a pleasant, family-like working atmosphere where you can contribute yourself.
4) You learn together with 22 other apprentices from three training areas.
5) You are supported by us in your training, no matter what professional career you envision.
6) You belong to the team from the start and work on concrete customer orders, not just apprentice projects.
Contact
Trainer for Designers
Otto Hofstetter AG
Phone:+41 55 285 96 15