Education

Training as an industrial clerk at Laufenberg

The profession of industrial clerk is very broadly diversified: at Laufenberg GmbH you will work in all administrative departments. These departments include sales, purchasing, procurement and financial accounting. The period in which you work in the departments varies. You will work in most departments for around 3 months.

Everyday working life depends very much on the department you work in. Rotating through the various departments gives you a comprehensive insight into the company. This makes the training very varied and you learn something new from every department. In addition to the commercial departments, you also go through the logistics departments, such as incoming goods, warehouse and dispatch, so that you gain an insight into how the raw materials are received and how the finished goods leave the company at the end.

You have the opportunity to develop and expand your knowledge in every department.

Tasks in the various departments

Distribution

  • Processing new inquiries (sending samples, requesting price calculations, preparing quotations, creating articles)
  • Recording orders and forwarding them to the downstream department (planning)
  • Acceptance and processing of complaints
  • Updating customer master data
  • Writing reminders

Procurement

  • Purchase of raw materials
  • Monitoring of delivery dates
  • Preparation of goods receipt postings
  • Comparison of offers

Financial accounting

  • Posting invoices
  • Preparation of the transfer of invoices
  • Store invoices electronically
  • Sort invoices by due date

Production planning

  • Scheduling of customer orders
  • Compliance with customer orders in terms of time and quantity
  • Planning machine capacities
  • Creation of machine plans

Shipping

  • Sending sample sleeves to customers in advance
  • Comparison of loading lists and invoices
  • Posting forwarding invoices
  • Sending test certificates
  • Sending sample letters by courier

Vocational school

Unlike most other apprenticeships, you go to school in blocks. A block usually consists of 6 weeks of school and a school year consists of a total of 2 blocks. Departmental reports are kept as proof of training. Department reports are used by the IHK (Chamber of Industry and Commerce) to keep track of everything that has been done during training.

More information about how the vocational school works exactly, can be found here.

Important subjects at vocational school

  • Economic & social studies
  • General economics
  • Business management processes
  • Commercial management and control
  • English, German
  • supplementary: politics, religion, sport

Prerequisites

To be able to start training as an industrial clerk, you should have at least a technical college entrance qualification. Requirements to make teaching fun:

  • A penchant for math, German and English
  • economic thinking
  • careful work
  • High ability to concentrate
  • Sociability
  • Commercial talent and thinking

Prerequisites

Once you have completed a commercial apprenticeship, all options are open to you, because the fact that you have become familiar with the various areas of an industrial company during your apprenticeship makes you a true all-round talent. You will therefore find employment in all industrial companies. Laufenberg relies on its self-trained industrial clerks and the majority of them are taken on after successfully completing their training.

Thanks for the report Fabian!

These are our current trainees from the 1. & 2nd year of apprenticeship

Trainee profiles & experience reports

Send your application to:
Krüserstrasse 2 D-47839 Krefeld-Hüls
P.O. Box 291247 D-47832 Krefeld