On Monday, September 5, 2016, 27 new apprentices started their training with Doppelmayr Seilbahnen GmbH in Wolfurt, choosing a highly promising career path that will enhance their future prospects, in specific programs for metal engineering (mechanical engineering, steel construction engineering and machining engineering), metal treatment engineering, electrical engineering (systems and industrial engineering) and mechatronics as well as – this year again – information technology and in one case design engineering. Doppelmayr is now training a total of 95 apprentices at its premises in Wolfurt.

Doppelmayr's apprenticeship programs trace back to the origins of the company in 1892. A dedicated apprentice workshop was set up in Wolfurt Rickenbach in 1979. Since then, 616 apprentices have completed their training, some 365 of whom continue to work for the company and can be found in all areas and at all levels of the organization. The instructors themselves all did their apprenticeships at Doppelmayr. The same goes for the new head of apprentice training, Udo Messner. After completing his apprenticeship with Doppelmayr, he spent another six years working within the Group, gaining extensive practical experience at LTW intralogistics. Before returning to Doppelmayr, Udo Messner taught young talents at the vocational college in Bludenz as well as at the technical college in Dornbirn. In March 2016, he was appointed head of apprentice training as successor to Georg Dür, who went into partial retirement after 44 years of outstanding service. Udo Messner is looking forward to his new role and to working at the Doppelmayr apprentice workshop.

Ever since the award 'Distinguished training company' ('Ausgezeichneter Lehrbetrieb') was established in 1997, Doppelmayr has held this title. The accolade is also reflected in the apprentices' performance. Every year they achieve excellent results in the Apprentices' Skills Competition, which ranks them among the best in their field in Vorarlberg’s electrical and metal industries.

Doppelmayr will again be taking on apprentices in the next year. Anyone interested in starting their training with Doppelmayr can contact Mrs Renate Prinz from Apprentice Training. Application by telephone: 05574/604-1059 (if possible Monday through Thursday before noon), email: renate.prinz@doppelmayr.com. Between mid-January and late March 2017, apprenticeship taster days will be offered. Registration for these events will start in November 2016 online at lehre-bei-doppelmayr.at.

Fact and figures:

27 new apprentices in 2016:

Total of 95 apprentices in the program:

Inquiries:

Doppelmayr Seilbahnen GmbH

Mag. Ekkehard Assmann

Head of Marketing and Public Relations
Rickenbacherstrasse 8-10, Postfach 20
6922 Wolfurt, Austria
Tel. +43 5574 604-223, Fax +43 5574 75590
Email: ekkehard.assmann@doppelmayr.com

Internet: doppelmayr.com

Doppelmayr Seilbahnen GmbH

Udo Messner

Head of Apprentice Training

Rickenbacherstrasse 8-10, Postfach 20
6922 Wolfurt, Austria
Tel. +43 5574 604-1052, Fax +43 5574 75590
Email: udo.messner@doppelmayr.com

Internet: doppelmayr.com