Apprentice Automotive Specialist EFZ - Commercial Vehicles Sector

🔧 Passion instead of standard. With us, you don’t learn to tinker with just any car – you learn on lorries, buses and vans, the vehicles that keep Switzerland running every day. From brake testing to fifth wheel coupling: your apprenticeship with us is anything but standard.

Gebr. Knecht AG combines tradition with the future: for over 100 years we have been a successful family business and since 2024 part of the Thomann Commercial Vehicle Group with a total of eleven locations throughout the German-speaking part of Switzerland.

• Inspection, maintenance and repair of commercial vehicles such as lorries, buses and vans
• Testing of gearboxes, clutches and drive systems
• Assessment of brakes on the brake test bench as well as inspection of fifth wheel couplings, trailer hitches and superstructures
• Replacement of electro-pneumatic parts and electrical/electronic components
• Direct customer contact: clarifying orders together with your supervisor or directly with the customer
• The driving test is part of your training – we cover the costs for 15 practical driving lessons

• Completed compulsory schooling and passed aptitude test of the Auto Trade Association AGVS
• High technical understanding and enjoyment of tinkering
• Precise, careful working method and logical thinking
• Reliability, team spirit and willingness to get stuck in
• With very good school performance: interest in the vocational baccalaureate school (BM 1) alongside the apprenticeship

• 🚛 Real variety instead of car routine: lorries, buses, vans – you will get to know a range of vehicles that other training companies do not offer
• 🏫 Driving test included – we cover your 15 practical driving lessons
• 📈 Perspective after the apprenticeship: shortened additional apprenticeship to become an automotive mechatronics technician EFZ possible
• 🤝 Personal support from our experienced training team throughout the entire apprenticeship
• 🔩 Workshop at top level: modern lifts, diagnostic devices, short distances to spare parts
• 🎟️ Exclusive employee discounts within the Knecht Group – from mobility to travel to services

🤔 Why us – and not another training company?

• Commercial vehicles instead of just cars: with us you learn on lorries and buses from the start – not only after the apprenticeship
• 100 years of experience, but no standstill: we are not an anonymous large corporation, but a family-owned company – here you are known by name, not just as a personnel number
• Training is lived with us: we have been training apprentices for generations and know exactly how to make it easier for young talents to get started
• A team that stays: our long-standing employees speak for themselves – short distances and a family atmosphere are not just empty words with us
• More than an apprenticeship: through the Knecht Group, after graduation you have access to Eurobus, Welti-Furrer and other sister companies