Apprenticeship as Precision Optician EFZ (m/f/d) 2026
Widnau
Key information
- Publication date:16 August 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Apprenticeship
- Place of work:Widnau
Job summary
Join STORZ as a Feinwerkoptiker/in EFZ in Widnau, CH! A unique opportunity awaits you in a dynamic work environment focused on precision optics.
Tasks
- Manufacture high-precision optical components like lenses and prisms.
- Operate various measuring tools for quality control of components.
- Perform tasks such as grinding, polishing, and assembling optical parts.
Skills
- Secondary school diploma with strong math grades required.
- Attention to detail and passion for precision work.
- Good technical understanding and spatial awareness.
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Apprenticeship as Precision Optician EFZ (m/f/d) 2026
Widnau, St. Gallen, CH, 9443
Your Mission
Precision opticians manufacture high-precision optical components such as lenses, mirrors, prisms, and other plano and spherical optical parts. These are used in optical devices for medical technology, photography, and film technology, as well as in surveying technology.
At STORZ, we focus on the production of components for medical technology. Your tasks as an apprentice include grinding, lapping, and polishing prisms, plano plates, aspheres, and cylindrical lenses. You will work with the highest precision and care, as the quality of the optical components is crucial for their later use in medical devices. You will learn to handle various measuring instruments and use them specifically for quality control. Additionally, assembling, gluing, and mounting the optical components are important activities for you. These work steps require manual skill and a good technical understanding.
Your Talents
• Precise working method and enjoyment of precision work
• Steady hands and tactile sensitivity
• Spatial imagination
• Secondary school with good grades (especially in mathematics) or secondary school diploma
Your Benefits?
• Compensation for travel to school
• 1x per week learning afternoon (completing homework, preparing for exams)
• Block times (until 3:00 PM)
• 6 weeks of vacation in the 1st and 2nd year, 5 weeks in the 3rd and 4th year
• 100% coverage of school materials (books, laptop)
Are you interested in an exciting and varied training?
Then feel free to register for a trial day with our trainer Yaren Yorganci, yaren.yorganci@karlstorz.com / Tel. 071 726 12 83, or submit your documents here. We look forward to your application.
