Schools often offer classes on Friday afternoons and Saturdays in preparation for the Federal Professional Examination for Workshop Manager or Metal Construction Workshop and Assembly Manager. However, some continuing education, further training courses take place exclusively on Saturdays, others on a weekday. For the exact course dates, please contact the schools you are interested in directly using the contact form.

The metal construction workshop manager training course usually takes place over four semesters and comprises between 8 and 12 hours of lessons per week. In addition, there is self-study time of between three and five hours per week, depending on the student. This is the amount of time required to prepare for the professional examination in metal construction workshop and assembly management.

Anyone who has completed the metal construction workshop manager course is admitted to the final examination as a metal construction workshop and assembly manager:

1. holds a Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training as a metalworker or in a related profession;
2. has at least 3 years of metal construction experience since completing their apprenticeship (graduates of day schools recognized by the QS Commission are credited with a maximum of 1 year of schooling as metal construction experience);
3. provides evidence of attending a course for vocational trainers;
4. has the required module qualifications or certificates of equivalence.

The following module qualifications are required for admission to the FPE Metal Construction Workshop and Assembly Manager:

• Marketing and acquisition
• Calculation
• Materials technology and process engineering
• Building physics
• Construct
• Personnel management
• Project management
• Management

Yes, metal construction project managers take on responsible management activities in the areas of marketing, finance, customer acquisition, customer care, personnel management and project management.

To take part in continuing education, further training as a Metal Construction Workshop Manager with Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training, interested parties must either have completed an apprenticeship as a Metal Construction Designer with Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training, as a Metal Construction Builder Federal VET Diploma or in a related profession with several years of professional experience in metal construction.

After successfully completing the Federal Professional Examination, metal construction workshop managers are awarded the title: "Metal construction workshop and assembly manager with federal certificate".