Glass apparatus builder

Your job

You work in a team with our specialists in the glassblowing workshop of the University of Muenster at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry. Here, a variety of interesting tasks await you: the professional processing of glass tubes using a table burner or lathe, the production of glass apparatus and glass blowing, or the operation of cutting, grinding and polishing machines. Seize your chance and, in addition to the various orders, also process special orders.

Black-and-white close-up of a piece of laboratory glassware being shaped with a flame.
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Stations and contents of your training

After you have learned all the relevant basic skills of glassblowing within the first six months, you will then be introduced step by step to the construction of equipment. In daily collaboration with our experts, you will not only get to know various types of glass but also acquire extensive specialist knowledge in the process of glass production. Here, you can further develop your craft skills and at the same time apply new, relevant work techniques. Whether it is bending or attaching tubes, producing standard ground joints, blowing spheres or fusions. You can now easily fall back on all these techniques in your daily work. Even recognising and preventing stresses in the glass is no longer a challenge for you.

Thanks to the size of the University of Münster, you have the opportunity during your three-year training period to get to know many relevant areas of activity. For example, you will gain detailed insights into prototype construction or upcoming special orders and can test your knowledge and skills on different repairs.

What you should bring

  • In addition to a good secondary school leaving certificate, your grades in mathematics and natural sciences should indicate a recognisable interest in the training profession.
  • Technical understanding and manual skill make it easier for you to handle liquid glass on a daily basis and give you a feel for the material, helping you to understand different glass devices in the laboratory.
  • Your accuracy and independent way of working support you in keeping the specified dimensions and carrying out all work steps in a coherent manner.
  • Thanks to your well-developed spatial imagination as well as your logical thinking, it is easy for you to read and understand various glass apparatuses based on drawings.
  • Concentration and high resilience support you in the continuous work: the individual parts must be produced in one piece, so that many consecutive work steps are necessary.

Training institution & theoretical training

  • The practical training is completed in the glassblowing workshop of the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Corrensstraße 28/30, 48149 Münster
  • The theoretical training takes place at the vocational school centre in Wertheim (Baden-Württemberg) in three blocks per year, each lasting four weeks. Trainees should therefore also bring flexibility and a willingness to travel.

Duration of the training

three years

Questions about the training?

Department of Human Resource Development or:

Jürgen Berendes/Timothy Somerville
IAAC
Corrensstraße 28/30
iaac.glasblaeserei@uni-muenster.de

 

 

Translated with AI assistance.