Apprenticeship as a Work Educator with Prior Internship (6 Months) in Carpentry (80-100%)

About the job

2025-11-28

The dreischiibe foundation is an innovative, non-profit social enterprise. In our versatile service and commercial center in Herisau, St. Gallen, and Flawil, we create professional and personal perspectives for people with mental disabilities at 220 work, training, and integration places. In the day center and meeting center, we promote social integration with 60 visitor places.

For the carpentry area in Herisau, we offer from January 1, 2026, or by arrangement a

Apprenticeship as a Work Educator with prior internship (6 months) in carpentry (80-100%)

Together with our employees, we produce a wide range of orders for our corporate and private customers, mostly within the framework of small and medium-sized series:

• Customer gifts
• Wooden packaging
• Beekeeping magazines and various other own products
• Support services also in external woodworking companies on site

Your tasks

• Assisting in the support and guidance of employees in the work educational context
• Co-development of products, aids, and optimized production processes
• Checking orders throughout the entire production process
• Co-responsibility for occupational safety
• Assisting in the planning and organization of orders
• Various administrative tasks on the PC
• Participation in area meetings as well as internal training sessions

Your profile

• Completed vocational training in the wood trade required (carpenter preferred)
• Minimum age 25 years
• Motivation and joy in working with people with mental difficulties
• Independent working style, sense of responsibility, and humor
• Communicative, open, and team-oriented personality with a positive attitude
• Good IT user skills

dreischiibe offers

• Internship supervision and careful introduction to the work field
• Broad insight into an interesting and versatile activity in the field of work education
• Work in an open and active team
• Professional feedback as a prerequisite for further training in work education
• Internship salary
• Work location
• 9100 Herisau
• Herisau
• 9100
• Herisau