Dual students of the Mechatronic Systems degree programme (m/f/d)

Education

Safety, innovation and tradition: that's us, Steinbach & Vollmann!

Steinbach & Vollmann (STUV) has been one of the leading medium-sized companies in the locks, security and fittings industry for 140 years. Our company headquarters are centrally located between the cities of Essen, Düsseldorf and Wuppertal. With over 170 employees at our headquarters in Germany and sales companies in Spain and China, we serve both local and international markets.

Our main customers are in the industrial and government sectors. We supply innovative mechanical and electronic solutions for well-known industrial customers, e.g. for aeroplanes, machines, the food industry, cold storage rooms, trains and safes. In the prison sector, we are the market and innovation leader for the high-security locks used there in German-speaking countries.

Our business model is future-proof and has great potential for growth. We have big plans for the coming years. We want to significantly expand our market share both nationally and internationally and are therefore looking to strengthen our team.

As of 1 August 2025, we are looking for a student for the dual study programme Mechatronic Systems according to the KIS or KIA model for Steinbach & Vollmann GmbH and its sister company, STUV Prison Solutions GmbH, at the Heiligenhaus site.

In cooperation with Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Heiligenhaus campus, STUV offers a cooperative engineering training programme and also an optional cooperative engineering degree in mechatronic systems with a Bachelor's degree. You will obtain an internationally recognised degree with very good prospects of being taken on by our company.

In the cooperative engineering training programme, you will learn a traditional apprenticeship in our company and study at the university at the same time. In the first two years of the programme, you will spend three days a week at the company and two days a week at the university. After that, you switch to the full-time programme. On the cooperative engineering degree programme, you will work full-time at the company for around two days a week and for around 12 lecture-free weeks. The degree programme, which lasts 9 semesters, ends with the Bachelor's thesis, for which we and the Heiligenhaus campus will be on hand to provide you with advice and support.

Your reasons for completing your apprenticeship with us

• We live and love flat hierarchies and an open corporate culture in which there is room for your ideas and impulses
• You can show what you're made of and develop professionally and personally
• An open-minded and highly likeable team is looking forward to working with you
• A highly motivated training team that wants to excel together with you and provide you with all-round support

What you can expect from our company

• Building and testing electrical control systems
• Circuit diagram design and switch cabinet construction
• Designing, assembling, dismantling and maintaining machines, systems and plants
• Programming machine controls using PLC control
• Carry out software and hardware tests
• Project management

What awaits you at the Heiligenhaus Campus

• Systems engineering and artificial intelligence
• Maths and physics
• Computer science (including object-orientated and hardware-related programming, embedded systems, data analysis)
• Mechanical engineering (including mechanics, CAE, design, materials science)
• Electrical engineering (including control engineering, electronic components & circuits)

What you bring to our team

• You have the Abitur or the Fachhochschulreife with a good degree in your pocket
• You have a good knowledge of maths and physics and are interested in mechatronic and electronic systems.
• You have good spatial awareness, think logically and are resourceful
• You work conscientiously and reliably and are eager to learn and show initiative
• New challenges excite you and you are keen to contribute your ideas

Would you like to be actively involved from the very beginning and try out new tasks again and again? Gladly with us!

We offer you a very good professional foundation and later the chance of a job with a wide range of prospects for your professional development. In addition, we constantly develop you further with our attractive training programmes and motivate you with special payments for good performance in your studies and in the company. You will have 30 days' holiday per year to help you relax.

Take your future into your own hands and become part of our team!

Apply with a cover letter, CV in tabular form and copies of your last two certificates.

We look forward to getting to know you!