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Here you will find providers for your further training as a foreman or foreman's assistant as well as further information and decision-making aids for choosing the right training. Find out more about this interesting and varied job. Perhaps you would like to embark on this new career path...

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Foreman - your career goal?

Have you been working in plant services for some time and perhaps already in a management position? Would you like to broaden and deepen your knowledge in order to fulfill a management role in your professional field? Would you like to improve your job prospects and perhaps soon be promoted to foreman?

With the further training to become a foreman in plant services, you have the opportunity to deepen and expand your specialist knowledge in various areas of plant services. Participants will acquire the necessary skills to lead and manage a team professionally. The course focuses on the following topics: - Administration and operational management - Personnel management and supervision of trainees (vocational trainer course) - Maintenance of roads, sewers, public facilities - Nature conservation and dealing with water cycles The course is completed over three semesters while working and ends with a school certificate. Further information on further training as a foreman/worksman is available online at Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch directly from the relevant vocational schools and further training centers. It is also worth visiting the education platform if you would like to find out more about financing the course or if you would like educational advice - e.g. directly from the school.

Questions and answers

The costs for the training course to become a foreman in plant services, including the course, excursions, certificate examination, vocational trainer course with a federally recognized qualification and teaching materials, amount to CHF 7,500 (as of 2017).

The foreman course provides specific specialist knowledge on the topics of road maintenance and sewerage, water cycle, nature conservation, collection points, public facilities, environment and machinery, as well as operational management, administration and personnel management. There is also a course for vocational trainers to enable them to train apprentices professionally.

The admission requirements for the foreman/works service course are a Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training (Federal VET Diploma in Plant Maintenance) or an equivalent qualification with at least three years of professional experience in the works service or six years of professional experience in this field without a Federal VET Diploma.

Foremen are responsible for the structural maintenance of outdoor facilities and buildings. They are responsible for the cost-efficient planning of the maintenance of green areas, roads, paths, collection points and sewage systems, which includes repairs, maintenance of equipment and vehicles as well as winter services. The foreman is also responsible for personnel management and acts as a vocational trainer. In most cases, they work for the public sector.

This continuing education, further training to become a foreman is aimed at people who are already working in plant services and would like to take part in more in-depth training in order to be able to take on management tasks or further develop their existing management skills.

The complete foreman/worksman course comprises 400 lessons spread over three semesters. The course takes place alternately on Mondays all day and on Saturday mornings in one week and on Thursday evenings in the other.

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Website des Schweizerischen Sekretariats für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation SBFI , Website www.berufsberatung.ch (offizielles schweizerisches Informationsportal der Studien-, Berufs- und Laufbahnberatung) sowie Websites und anderweitige Informationen der Berufsverbände und Bildungsanbieter.

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Neuhofstrasse 36
5600 Lenzburg
Lenzburg Training Center
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The Weiterbildungszentrum Lenzburg (wbz) is a professional course and training provider in the fields of automotive engineering, facility management and maintenance, caretaking, woodworking (carpenters, joiners), hotel housekeeping, maintenance, mechanical engineering/automation, metal construction, solar technology and plant services. Interested parties can find further courses in the areas of vocational training, leadership and personality, other areas of expertise and PC courses (ECDL = European Certificate of Digital Literacy).
The Lenzburg Training Center (wbz), which is certified in accordance with ISO 21001:2018, is part of the Lenzburg Vocational School (BSL).
Around 1,300 adults attend our courses every year.
Strengths: In the continuing education sector since 1988, above-average success rate, qualified & committed instructors, practice-oriented teaching, top infrastructure, two restaurants, parking garage, directly on the A1.
Region: Aargau, Zürich
Sites: Lenzburg
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