Careers

Your gateway to a colourful future

Exciting opportunities await you at RELIUS as part of an innovative team.

Highly motivated employees make a significant contribution to the company’s success every day. Their expertise is the company’s most important asset, and RELIUS consistently pursues the development and advancement of its employees. Performance-related pay, numerous social benefits and a good work-life balance are a matter of course.

RELIUS is a modern, forward-looking employer that delegates responsibility, welcomes and encourages creative ideas, and inspires employees to work towards the company’s goals. Trust-based cooperation founded on mutual respect, collegiality and appreciation provides the basis for a positive working environment.

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Get to know RELIUS during the recruitment process

As part of our recruitment process, we offer suitable shortlisted candidates an individually arranged taster day. This gives you an initial insight into the advertised role and everyday working life at RELIUS. We agree with you individually which insights are possible and relevant to the role.

1. Logistics

Logistics covers goods receiving, storage, order picking and dispatch – ensuring that the right paint reaches the right place at the right time.

2. Production

In production, different raw materials are turned into paints and coatings. Everyday tasks include operating production equipment and monitoring manufacturing processes.

3. Research & Development

In Research & Development, we develop formulations, test raw materials and improve our products. Laboratory work combines new ideas with the requirements for paints and coatings.

4. Mechanical workshop

The mechanical workshop keeps our machinery running reliably. This includes maintaining, repairing and adapting machines and equipment to new requirements.

5. Colour measurement

Colour measurement focuses on measuring and precisely reproducing colours. Tinting formulations and tinting systems play a central role.

6. Quality assurance

In quality assurance, we test products and analyse measurement results. This helps us ensure that our paints and coatings meet the specified requirements.

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Current vacancies

Vocational training

Coatings laboratory technician

Training duration: 3½ years

Area of work: Coatings laboratory technicians work in the development and manufacture of paints and coatings. They examine the components, create new formulations, test innovative raw materials for their suitability and use chemical and physical analyses to monitor the raw materials used in production. They help develop new treatment and application processes and conduct experiments on adhesion to substrates and durability. Trainees also work with paint strippers and binders, substrate preparation and the impact resistance of coatings.

Professional skills:

  • Developing and optimising coating materials for different substrates, application methods and functions
  • Conducting trials
  • Testing product quality
  • Assessing coating materials
  • Applying coating materials
  • Carrying out analytical work and production controls
  • Documenting workflows and their results
  • Advising users of coatings

Chemical plant operator

Training duration: 3½ years

Area of work: Chemical plant operators control and monitor production facilities in the chemical industry. They prevent faults before they occur or rectify them immediately. The training covers chemical and physical fundamentals as well as microbiological working techniques. Chemical plant operators independently maintain the machinery used for these processes.

Professional skills:

  • Inspecting and maintaining equipment
  • Carrying out inspection rounds in the plant
  • Filling chemicals into vessels and other equipment
  • Monitoring readings such as pressure, temperature, flow rate and other physical parameters
  • Keeping logs of the production process
  • Taking samples to check product quality
  • Applying process engineering methods
  • Starting and monitoring production facilities

Machine and plant operator

Training duration: 2 years

Area of work: Machine and plant operators work in a variety of production sectors, for example in companies in the chemical industry.

Professional skills:

  • Setting up and operating machinery and equipment in production, and controlling and monitoring the flow of materials
  • Preparing workflows
  • Selecting and applying test methods and testing equipment
  • Selecting materials and processing them in accordance with technical documentation
  • Selecting and applying manual and machine-based manufacturing techniques
  • Using control and regulation equipment
  • Maintaining and inspecting machinery and equipment and rectifying faults
  • Implementing quality assurance measures
  • Complying with environmental protection, occupational safety and economic efficiency requirements
  • Documenting production data
  • Coordinating with upstream and downstream departments