Joining Gira

Exciting tasks

Whether for school or college students, graduates or people with professional experience – whether internship, apprenticeship, start of professional career or a new job for new challenges – Gira offers a range of options for joining the company, exciting activities and tasks and a host of prospects for further training and career development. Select your joining level here and you can find all the key information for your start at Gira on a separate page.

Select your joining level at Gira

01 People with professional experience

02 Graduates

03 College students

04 School students

Openness, transparency and communication: With its horizontally structured steel-and-glass façades, the Gira production building, which was inaugurated in 2002, reflects the company's basic principles.

Joining Gira

People with professional experience

Gira offers a very wide range of technical and commercial occupations with interesting, varied activities and development prospects. A new job at Gira means exciting tasks in a committed team and a responsible, innovative company. Gira offers attractive remuneration subject to a collective agreement, support for further training and career development, and attaches importance to a comprehensive occupational health management programme as well as a healthy work/life balance.

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Facts on Gira as an employer #1

approx. 1/3

of all Gira employees took part in an advanced training measure in 2015.

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32 %

of all Gira employees used the free gym membership in 2015

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2

groups, each with 10 children up to the age of 3, are looked after in the new Gira childcare centre that opened its doors in 2014.

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People at Gira > Claus Schrödinger, Michael Weber

Freedom to develop innovative ideas

Claus Schrödinger and Michael Weber joined Gira as sales engineers at the age of 18 or 19 respectively. As part of their activities with planners and architects, they have, over the years, become increasingly involved in the implementation of complex functions of Gira high-tech products in calls for tender.
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Technical sales marketing

Innovation processes

Development of new tasks

Joining Gira

Graduates

After completing a technical degree course, graduates can join Gira on a trainee programme. During their time spent working in up to six specialist departments, the trainees are provided with valuable insights into everyday business life at Gira and receive further career development in line with their requirements. They are given the opportunity to become familiar with projects and also work on their own projects. Many areas within Gira also have direct entry opportunities for graduates. Candidates are thoroughly and systematically introduced to the company as part of an onboarding programme. They have the opportunity of taking part in various training measures (Gira Campus or externally). All this enables a good start to their professional career.

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Facts on Gira as an employer #2

2

years is the duration of the Gira trainee programme for technical graduates for which interested parties can apply via the job vacancies.

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5

paths are provided in the Gira trainee programme, each with a specific thematic focus.

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People at Gira > Frank Schimmelpfennig

New Challenges Every Day

Frank Schimmelpfennig, Head of Electronics Development, explains why you only get things done as a team. Together with his team he is overcoming challenges such as the growing complexity of products and the ever increasing pressure to innovate. "What's interesting about the job is that nothing has stayed the same as it was 20 years ago." The key to success lies in fluid communication between the various teams, and in each individual's personal initiative.
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Complexity of products

Product development

Personal initiative of employees

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College students

At Gira, college students can complete a variety of different internships, according to their respective level of training. Temporary jobs and jobs for working students are also available at Gira. But much more is possible. An especially interesting opportunity is writing practice-oriented student research projects or final-year projects here in the company.

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Dates and facts on starting a career at Gira #2

6 × 6

Gira offers college students and graduates six-week internships in six professions.

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2013

Gira established its own technical centre, where tools could be tested under series production conditions as well as new technologies.

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39

countries with Gira representatives demonstrate the strong international focus of the company

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People at Gira > Sebastian Marz

Going to the limits – with backup

At the age of just 29, Sebastian Marz heads up what might be Gira's largest organisational project: the introduction of SAP as the lead software for all business processes in the company. "No ordinary task", says the industrial business management assistant and industrial engineer, who took over as assistant to the management at the age of just 24. "But one which is easily doable – if the support is there in the company."
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Innovation processes

New technologies

Project management

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School students

Gira offers a variety of opportunities for school students. They can complete various internships at Gira that are individually tailored to their current level of training. Temporary jobs and holiday jobs are also available. All this offers a good opportunity to gain initial insights into our company. Trainees at very welcome at Gira after finishing school. Gira makes around 15 apprenticeships available each year, in technical and commercial professions.

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Dates and facts on starting a career at Gira #1

15

Apprenticeships are offered by Gira around once a year.

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8

Vocational training for skilled occupations is offered at Gira, this includes training for four commercial, three technical and one catering occupation

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People at Gira > Class Vesper

Adventure with a safety rope

In 2005, the management offered its trainees a year-long placement abroad for the first time. One of the options on the table was a stay in China. No-one took up the challenge – except Clas Vesper, who was then an apprentice toolmaker in the plastics production plant. He assumed a pioneering role and also posed new logistical challenges for Gira relating to the organisation of a job, accommodation and a visa. Just under a year later he started his trip to the mega-metropolis Shanghai.
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Vocational training

Stay abroad

Dual course of study

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