We recently held an open day for interested young people and their parents at WILD Electronics in Wernberg. As part of the “professional espionage” campaign, the staff at WILD readily provided information on apprenticeships, career opportunities after school and much more.

What does a mechatronic engineer actually do? How long do developers work on a new medical technology product? These were just two of the numerous questions that the WILD Electronics employees answered during the “Berufsspionage 2017” (2017 Professional Espionage) project, organised by “Berufs- und Bildungsorientierung Kärnten” (Career and Education Orientation Carinthia). Accompanied by their parents, young aged between 13 and 14 visited the Wernberg site to get a glimpse behind the scenes of WILD Electronics and gain important insights for their own professional orientation.

Students of the third and fourth forms of new secondary schools and grammar schools were welcomed by project manager Stephan Payer and subsequently given a tour around the production facilities by production manager Alfred Meinhardt. The students then had to solve a small practical task at a workplace specifically prepared for this purpose. “We prepared the cabling of a DC motor which the students had to complete based on an assembly drawing. The young people were given the opportunity to test their skills in cutting and stripping the necessary cables, crimping end sleeves, cabling the circuit and subsequently starting up the motor”, says maintenance and assembly worker Michael Millonig, who himself completed his mechatronic engineer apprenticeship at WILD. To round off, development manager Markus Poßegger provided an overview of the exciting tasks that WILD employees have to solve when developing complex analysis equipment for laboratory diagnostics.

“Both the children and their parents were very interested and they were thrilled by our company”, sums up WILD Electronics managing director Wolfgang Warum. “We are always happy to be given the opportunity to support young people and hope to have numerous participants again when we announce our next vacancies for apprenticeships.”