Glass Instrument Maker
Brief Info
- Secondary School-Leaving Certificate: Fachoberschulreife
- Selection Process: Application and interviews
- Personal Requirements: Manual dexterity, spacial thinking, interest in physics, chemistry, and mathematics
- Aptitude Test: No
- Length of Training: 3 years
- Professional Association: Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf
- Exam: Mid exam and final exam
- Continued Training: Glasbläser- und Glasapparatebauermeisterin und -meister, Industriemeisterin und -meister für den Bereich Glas, Technikerin und Techniker im Bereich Glastechnik
Vocation Description
Glass instrument makers pursue their profession in workshops and studios. They create individual glass instruments and hollow glassware by hand, that are used in labs for medical research or in process engineering in numerous branches of the industry. Technical drawings serve as models for manipulating the glass and metal. Vacuum equipment, table burners, and hand-held burners help you in your work.
Despite the use of various machines, the occupation is one primarily done by hand: separating, putting together, setting, and curving of glass, blowing air, swelling and crimping, melting together, creating glass insturments, measuring and checking semifinished and finished products.
Practical Training
Practical training takes place at either institutes or chairs of the university.
School Training
Block courses (Internatsunterricht): Stattliches Berufskolleg Glas Keramik Gestaltung des Landes NRW Rheinbach, Zu den Fichten 19, 53359 Rheinbach.
Salary, Job Ticket, and Vacation during Training
Training Salary:
1st Training Year: 714.13 euros
2nd Training Year: 765.74 euros
3rd Training Year: 813.07 euros
Job Ticket: 15 euros/month
Christmas Bonus: 95% of monthly salary
Vacation Days: 26 days/year
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