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Profession · Industrial Engineering and Management

Plant and operations foreman in Germany

Also called: Production foreman

Leads a production section or shop floor: organises crews and monitors deadlines, quality and safety.

Werk-/Betriebsmeister/inProfession with vocational training

Facts

In GermanWerk-/Betriebsmeister/in

Path into the professionvocational training (Ausbildung), 2–3.5 years

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