KICK-START YOUR CAREER
As a traditional and family company, we consider important to provide young people with a well-grounded education. Consequently, we assume corporate responsibility for our company as well as for our employees and the region we operate in.
Take off into your future!
- The paper and pulp industry offers a stable environment.
- You will be training and working in an environmentally friendly profession.
- The paper and pulp industry operates in a sustainable and green way - "green jobs" are an integral part of the industry.
- Process control is highly demanding and requires special techniques - no other industry innovation.
- High degree of automation in the day-to-day work.
- You will be working with various machinery and learn for life.
Trial Days
Would you like to gain an insight into our company and get to know the various apprenticeships?
We are happy to offer individual trial day. Arrange an appointment for you/your friends/your classmates and let us guide you through our company.
bewerbung.pit(at)hamburger-containerboard.com
Our apprenticeship training
Paper technicans look primarily after the supervision and control of the production plants. You set the - mostly - computer-controlled machines and controlling the display (e.g. for temperature and pressure conditions). Check the moisture content of raw and semi-masses as well as ready paper roads and cardboard roads; if necessary, adjust the machine after. The servicing and cleaning of the arrangements also belongs to your duties.
Apprenticeship: 3.5 years
Conditions:
- technical understanding
- joy in teamwork
- responsiveness with disturbance removal
- independency
Are you interested?
Send your application documents to bewerbung.pit(at)hamburger-containerboard.com.
Process leading engineers as well as arrangements and company leading engineers steer, program and parameterize the arrangements of the energy supply and energy distribution, control technology, measuring technology and control technology as well as the pulse technology with the process leading technology. Nibbles, measuring value transference is carried out, put transmitter and measuring value receiver and parameterized.
Apprenticeship: 4 years
Conditions:
- Knowledge about kinds and characteristics of control distances and control child
- Furthermore regulators and set limbs must become well-chosen and parameterized
Are you interested?
Send your application documents to bewerbung.pit(at)hamburger-containerboard.com.
Mechanical engineering engineers fix with the help of the technical documents and machine documentations the working steps, working means and operating procedures, plan and steer the work routines.
Mechanical engineering engineers are occupied with the production of machine parts as well as with the assembly that the installation, the introduction, the servicing and the repair of machines and arrangements. A main focus of the mechanical engineering engineer with special machines like a paper machine lies in the area of hydraulic arrangements, kettle line construction, armatures line construction and pipe line construction, steel construction and light alloy constructions.
Apprenticeship: 3.5 years
Are you interested?
Send your application documents to bewerbung.pit(at)hamburger-containerboard.com.
This profession is one of the most versatile training. Industrial clerks are used in almost all areas of a modern company are used, such as financial and accounting, bookkeeping and accounting services, Human Resources, Controlling and Sales.
Apprenticeship: 3 years
Conditions:
- of inclination to office and administrative work
- commercial thinking
- slope to the handling of data and figures
- careful operation
- high communication capability
- friendly appearance
Are you interested?
Send your application documents to bewerbung.pit(at)hamburger-containerboard.com.
Requirements:
A successfully completed compulsory education, a sense of responsibility, accuracy and diligence. Furthermore, you have a strong enthusiasm for working in an international company and enjoy working in a team.
Good performance during the apprenticeship will be rewarded. Start your career as an apprentice and gain momentum as you become head of department, workshop manager, machine operator or foreman.
Your Benefits
Opportunities for an international career path 
travel allowances 
participation in excursions and at the day of apprentices 
bearing of all costs of vocational schooling
Apply now
Send us your application documents including the following important information:
- Cover letter
- Curriculum vitae
- Certificates and Reference about previous internships
Send us your application
- via E-Mail to bewerbung.pit(at)hamburger-containerboard.com (PDF format, max. 3 MB) or
- by post to W. Hamburger GmbH, Aspanger Str. 252 in 2823 Pitten, Austria.
Do you have any questions?
Please contact us by phone. This allows us to respond to your individual queries quickly and easily.
2823 Pitten
Austria
2823 Pitten
Austria
Learn more about us
W. Hamburger looks back at over 170 years of experience in the paper industry – an industry that has experienced numerous changes. We therefore cultivate a corporate culture that combines tradition with a high degree of innovation.
W. Hamburger, part of the Hamburger Containerboard Group, is among today's leading producers of high-quality corrugated board base paper in Europe. Our Austro brand is well known and respected throughout the entire continent thanks to our high quality products and services.
Your Benefits
Christmas and holiday bonus Realistic prospects of being hired after completion of your apprenticeship Attractive apprenticeship pay 
30 days annual leave 
Reimbursement of travel costs to the vocational college for paper technologists
Hamburger Containerboard in Gelsenkirchen
Hamburger Rieger stands for tradition and innovative know-how. Our dedication to top quality standards contributes to our customers' success.
RiegerLiner combines a consistent, bright white surface with maximum gloss and smoothness, providing the ideal conditions for brilliant printing results on your packaging.
Continuous investment in production and quality management and first-class technical support has made us the world's foremost quality leader in coated white top liners.
Your Benefits
Christmas and holiday bonus Realistic prospects of being hired after completion of your apprenticeship Attractive apprenticeship pay 30 days annual leave Reimbursement of travel costs to the vocational college for paper technologists
Hamburger Containerboard in Spremberg
Hamburger Containerboard in Spremberg is one of the largest employers in the region with a workforce of around 450 employees.
Following the completion of our expansion project – the second paper machine – Spremberg is now the largest location of the Hamburg Containerboard Division, with an annual production output of around 840,000 tonnes of paper.
In addition to the production of white uncoated corrugated containerboard, we also produce high-quality white coated papers under the RiegerLiner EC-D name. Our portfolio is rounded off by the production of various gypsum-grade paperboard types.
Apprenticeship trades
If you are interested in technology, teamwork and environmental protection, then you might find your future lies in the sustainable circular economy.
YOUR TRAINING
You will get to know all the production and technology departments. You will learn all about the production processes involved in paper manufacturing step by step. Specialist subjects (e.g. pneumatics, hydraulics, electrical engineering) are taught in cross-company courses and at the vocational college in Gernsbach (Baden-Württemberg). There, you will acquire theoretical knowledge in pulp production, preparation and testing, operating sheet forming systems, press and dryer sections, and product finishing. You will receive safety training and acquire a licence to drive forklift trucks and cranes.
Duration: 3 years with very good prospects of being hired by our company after you have completed your training.
Interested?
Then why not submit your application now via our online careers portal?
If you are interested in technology, teamwork and environmental protection, then you might find your future lies in the sustainable circular economy.
YOUR TRAINING
You will become a specialist in the installation and maintenance of electrical and electropneumatic systems. You will learn how to service, repair and replace system components. You will also perform regular tests and measurements. You will use these measures to ensure that the manufacturing processes for paper production and corrugated board production and processing remain available at all times. The vocational college is in Traunstein. In addition, you will spend about 14 weeks of each training year at our cooperation partners' training centres, where you will have the opportunity to consolidate your theoretical knowledge of electrical systems and put it into practice. You will also receive safety training.
Duration: 3.5 years with very good prospects of being hired by our company after you have completed your training.
Interested?
Then why not submit your application now via our online careers portal?
If you are interested in technology, teamwork and environmental protection, then you might find your future lies in the sustainable circular economy.
YOUR TRAINING
You will learn how to service, repair and inspect machines, production plants and technical production equipment. You will assist in expanding and converting existing and installing new machines. Your support will help to safeguard our operations in paper production, corrugated board production and processing and in the refuse-derived fuel (RDF) power plant. Basic skills (e.g. basic training in metallurgy, welding, pneumatics, hydraulics, electrical engineering) are taught in special courses and at the vocational college in Traunstein. There, you will acquire theoretical knowledge in the maintenance, servicing, installation and assembly of technical assemblies and systems. You will also learn how to successfully implement this knowledge in practice. You will receive safety training and acquire a licence to drive forklift trucks and cranes.
Duration: 3.5 years with very good prospects of being hired by our company after you have completed your training.
Interested?
Then why not submit your application now via our online careers portal?
Your Benefits
Christmas and holiday bonus Realistic prospects of being hired after completion of your apprenticeship Attractive apprenticeship pay 30 days annual leave Reimbursement of travel costs to the vocational college for paper technologists
Hamburger Containerboard in Trostberg
Hamburger Rieger stands for tradition and innovative know-how. Our dedication to top quality standards contributes to our customers' success.
RiegerLiner combines a consistent, bright white surface with maximum gloss and smoothness, providing the ideal conditions for brilliant printing results on your packaging.
Continuous investment in production and quality management, combined with our first-class technical support, have made us the world's foremost quality leader in coated white top liners.
Why opt for an apprenticeship at Hamburger Containerboard?
- Complete your training in a company with a secure future.
- Learn the trade in a company that is both ecologically and economically aware.
- Gain lots of experience for your future career.
- Benefit from the opportunity for both professional and personal development.
- Work in a highly automated environment.
- Receive an above-average apprenticeship salary based on our pay scale.
- Learn the trade in a friendly and supportive environment.