Typical duties
- Learning to operate large technical equipment (cranes, industrial trucks, heavy transport vehicles, lorries, construction machinery, conveyor systems and locomotives)
- Helping to prepare cargo handling operations, such as attaching lifting gear and securing loads on lorries and vessels
- Training in the silo facilities (coffee and cement), sampling green coffee, unloading coffee containers through hoppers, and maintaining and cleaning storage areas
- Training at the container terminal, including operating the container gantry crane, empty container handler and reach stacker 2
What we offer
- Comprehensive and varied three-year training
- Pay under the TVAöD collective agreement, including an annual special payment (Christmas bonus), currently €1,218.26 in the first year
- 30 days’ annual leave, plus 24 and 31 December off
- Possible contribution towards your driving licence
- High-quality workwear, including a laundry service
- Contribution towards the Deutschlandticket
- Comprehensive personal support,
with additional exam preparation if needed - Occupational health programmes, such as massages
- Team events, such as company runs
- We are happy to offer taster days if you are interested
What we are looking for
- An intermediate school-leaving qualification or extended vocational qualification (eBBR)
- Enjoyment of working in a team
- Reliability, flexibility, helpfulness, openness and a sense of responsibility
- Willingness to work a three-shift system
- A category B/BE driving licence is desirable, but is not required when training begins
Vocational school
- Block teaching in Hamburg, in three-week periods
- BEHALA covers most travel and accommodation costs, with a small personal contribution under the TVAöD collective agreement