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Apprenticeship, dual or cooperative studies - all the freedom you need to start your career. In the best team

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After a successful school career, do you now want to get started and give your professional future a foundation? Very good! If you are enthusiastic about sophisticated technology and enjoy finding clever solutions for exciting technical or commercial challenges, Optima is the right place for you.

Whether you are looking for an apprenticeship, a dual or cooperative study program, you can expect the best prospects with us: a wide variety of apprenticeships and study programs, competent support, a state-of-the-art working environment and, last but not least, the best team.

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On the right track from the start Apprenticeship with the technology leader

A good start is the best prerequisite for a fulfilling professional life. At Optima, you have every opportunity to do just that. Your training will be taken care of by experts with outstanding professional and pedagogical skills. This means that you will enjoy first-class support and encouragement right from the start. You will be part of a large team for whom personal appreciation and mutual support are more than just empty words.

Good reasons to get started with us
Modern training center
Trainee fleet with vehicles that you can drive if you are 16 years old and have a moped license
Excursions and training courses
Theory support for vocational school
during working hours
Young training team
Stays abroad and assembly work for
individual professions possible

Apprenticeships at Optima at one glance

Year after year, many young people start their apprenticeship
or their dual studies at Optima. Takeover rate: almost 100 %!

From the first moment

Right in the middle

For a fast-growing company, competent junior staff are more important than ever. That's why practical training is a top priority for us.

Our trainees work under realistic conditions right from the start, are involved in projects at an early stage and take on their own tasks. For the industrial sector, state-of-the-art tools are available for this purpose in our pioneering training center. But regardless of whether commercial or technical apprenticeship, we encourage initiative and entrepreneurial thinking right from the start, just as much as technical skills.

Apprentice and employee working together at a machine
From the first moment

Right in the middle

For a fast-growing company, competent junior staff are more important than ever. That's why practical training is a top priority for us.

Our trainees work under realistic conditions right from the start, are involved in projects at an early stage and take on their own tasks. For the industrial sector, state-of-the-art tools are available for this purpose in our pioneering training center. But regardless of whether commercial or technical apprenticeship, we encourage initiative and entrepreneurial thinking right from the start, just as much as technical skills.

Apprentice and employee working together at a machine
For a strong future

We take you further. Professionally. Personally

For us, training means more than just teaching the necessary technical skills. We give you the opportunity to deepen your strengths and at the same time broaden your personal horizon of experience. That's why regular internal and external training courses, visits to our foreign subsidiaries (depending on the apprenticeship), excursions with tours of the company and specialist information are all part of our training program. And for the community: many a nice party with your colleagues.

Apprentice at a bench drill with caliper in hand
For a strong future

We take you further. Professionally. Personally

For us, training means more than just teaching the necessary technical skills. We give you the opportunity to deepen your strengths and at the same time broaden your personal horizon of experience. That's why regular internal and external training courses, visits to our foreign subsidiaries (depending on the apprenticeship), excursions with tours of the company and specialist information are all part of our training program. And for the community: many a nice party with your colleagues.

Apprentice at a bench drill with caliper in hand
Apprentice holding a machine part
Annika, Technical product designer

I enjoyed my training as a technical product designer because I was faced with a new challenge every day, always drawing new parts.

Annika, Technical product designer
Apprentice automation technology
Felix, Electronics engineer

My aha effect was the robot in the training center, which the trainees are allowed to work with themselves. The environment at Optima is very friendly. The trainees meet regularly for lunch and have a good relationship with each other.

Felix, Electronics engineer
Apprentice working at a machine
Gordon, Mechatronics engineer

The training at Optima was fun because it is versatile. New things all the time, you can work on different machines filling and packaging different products.

Gordon, Mechatronics engineer
Where the future goes to learn

The modern training center in Schwäbisch Hall

On its approximately 1,000 square meters, the Optima training center offers more than 140 apprentices optimal learning conditions as well as plenty of space for creative learning and practical work. The workplaces for the various professions are fitted with modern equipment. Theory is not neglected either: a laboratory and practice room as well as two training rooms enable optimal knowledge transfer. Five full-time Optima instructors impart theoretical and practical knowledge on modern processing machines and special training systems.

Curious? Then take a look around right now.

Heike Brenner
Contact me regarding all your questions about apprenticeship and school internships
Heike Brenner
Apprenticeship and school internships, available in the mornings
+49 791 506-1195 karriere@optima-packaging.comWrite e-mail
Heike Brenner
Heike Brenner
Apprenticeship and school internships, available in the mornings
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Theory and practice combined smartly Dual study at Optima

You will soon have your general or subject-specific university entrance qualification in your pocket. And you want to make a real difference and get ahead right from the start. Theoretical basics are important to you, but the practical application should not be missing. Then a dual study program at Optima is the right path for you. Theory and practice alternate in a twelve-week cycle. You will complete a full bachelor's degree and at the same time be fully integrated into the company. At one of the most exciting employers the region has to offer.

These dual studies are available at OPTIMA

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Dual study: The best of both worlds

After school, important decisions await: Study or earn money? Theory or practice? With the dual study program, you can choose both. As a Bachelor's graduate of the Cooperative University, you are on an equal footing with graduates of universities and universities of applied sciences. But unlike them, you are already a real practitioner. With correspondingly good prospects on the job market.

Simply convincing

That's why dual study at OPTIMA

In cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative University, Mosbach and Bad Mergentheim sites, we offer four future-proof fields of study with different focuses. In any case, you should have an interest in math, physics, technology and computer science. In addition, enthusiasm for the complex but always exciting challenges of filling and packaging valuable and sensitive goods. We offer:

  • Practical phases in a modern working environment
  • Targeted support from competent trainers
  • Continuously exciting tasks and projects
  • Sound knowledge transfer at the technology leader
Student working at a laptop
Jule, dual study program Business Informatics

I really like the dual study program in business informatics at Optima because I get a lot of insights into different topics and departments. Due to the alternation of theory and practice, it never gets boring and there are always new tasks, projects and challenges.

Jule, dual study program Business Informatics
Isabell Rath
Contact me regarding all your career questions.
Isabell Rath
HR Manager (Higher Education & Training), available Tue. - Fri.
+49 791 506-1240 karriere@optima-packaging.comWrite e-mail
Isabell Rath
Isabell Rath
HR Manager (Higher Education & Training), available Tue. - Fri.
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Two at one stroke Cooperative studies at OPTIMA

Obtain an apprenticeship and a degree at the same time? That's also possible at Optima. In the cooperative study program, you combine a sound apprenticeship with a suitable study program, during which you continue to receive compensation. The training seamlessly transitions into the study program. After just five years, you'll have two degrees in your pocket and excellent prospects for the future.

OPTIMA offers these cooperative studies

Mechatronics, automation technology and electrical mechanical engineering

Cleverly combined

At Optima, the cooperative study program combines a two-year apprenticeship as a mechatronics technician with the subsequent bachelor's degree program in automation technology and electrical mechanical engineering. Your training takes place at Optima, and you complete your studies (7 semesters) at the Künzelsau campus of Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences.

By dovetailing the two stages of education, the dual qualification can be achieved in just five years. You will also remain with the company during your studies and receive compensation for the entire period.

Student at a computer
Mechatronics, automation technology and electrical mechanical engineering

Cleverly combined

At Optima, the cooperative study program combines a two-year apprenticeship as a mechatronics technician with the subsequent bachelor's degree program in automation technology and electrical mechanical engineering. Your training takes place at Optima, and you complete your studies (7 semesters) at the Künzelsau campus of Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences.

By dovetailing the two stages of education, the dual qualification can be achieved in just five years. You will also remain with the company during your studies and receive compensation for the entire period.

Student at a computer
Student at work at a machine
Lars Schickner, Cooperative study program Mechatronics

The transition to my studies worked out great, I still have contact with my team at Optima and never lose touch with the practical side of things. And the issue of vacation jobs has also been resolved for me.

Lars Schickner, Cooperative study program Mechatronics
Luisa Mebert
Contact me regarding all your career questions.
Luisa Mebert
Contact person for pre-interns, student internships, working students, bachelor and master students, technical students and coop. students (m/f/d)
+49 791 506-1638 studenten-sha@optima-group.orgWrite e-mail
Luisa Mebert
Luisa Mebert
Contact person for pre-interns, student internships, working students, bachelor and master students, technical students and coop. students (m/f/d)
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Get a taste

School internship at OPTIMA

Would you like to experience an exciting school internship? With us, you can choose from a variety of apprenticeships. High school students have the opportunity to gain an insight into the study programs offered by the Cooperative University.

You have the opportunity to complete your one-week school internship in the following occupations:

  • Cutting machine operator
  • Industrial mechanic
  • Electronics technician for automation technology
  • Mechatronics engineer
  • Technical product designer – specializing in machine and plant design
  • IT Specialist (m/f/d) – specialization system integration
  • Warehouse logistics specialist

High school students can gain insight into the study programs of the Dual University for one week:

  • Electrical engineering (specialization in automation)
  • Mechanical engineering (specialization in design)
Heike Brenner
Contact me regarding all your questions about apprenticeship and school internships
Heike Brenner
Apprenticeship and school internships, available in the mornings
+49 791 506-1195 karriere@optima-packaging.comWrite e-mail
Heike Brenner
Heike Brenner
Apprenticeship and school internships, available in the mornings
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