Nothing moves without them: SCHOLPP’s fitters. Overseas, in Europe and in Germany, they transport and install machines and help companies to remain agile in their production. With almost 5.000 transport and assembly services a year all over the world, they not only need expertise and professionalism, but also a great deal of passion and leadership skills on site. These are the qualities that fitters like Andy Peterseim bring together. They guarantee SCHOLPP’s success on site.

Always on the move

When Andy Peterseim drinks his coffee in the morning and checks his emails, he often doesn’t know exactly what job is waiting for him that day. ‘That’s the special thing about the job – the variety,’ explains the 42-year-old as he studies his next project. The trained heating installer still remembers his first job in detail. In 2012, he visited a trade fair in Karlsruhe, Germany, and stopped at the SCHOLPP stand while strolling around. The crane that was set up next to the stand made an impression on him. And so he got talking to the people at SCHOLPP about the work, the company and job vacancies. Specialist fitters were being wanted and Peterseim seized the opportunity.

Everything that is heavy

‘Being on the road, new people, new companies, new challenges, not doing the same thing every day – that was exactly my thing,’ recalls Peterseim. And he was not disappointed. On his first job, his project manager sent him to a stately castle whose aristocratic owner wanted to have his imposing safe moved from the top floor.

This job taught Andy Peterseim how important it is to think flexibly when transporting heavy goods. ‘In the end, we manoeuvred the safe out of the castle with the help of a crane without a scratch.’ The Erfurt native also skilfully handled upcoming orders and became a foreman in just two years later. This mainly involves transporting, unloading, moving and finally assembling machines. His job sometimes also includes entire assembly lines that are not fully assembled after three days, but sometimes only after three or four weeks.

Success achieve by commitment

This is the responsibility of foremen like Peterseim. They have two to five specialised fitters under supervision and implement on site what they have previously planned with the project manager in the office. They are men of action who are always on the move – from the company to the installation site, working with colleagues there, looking for and finding solutions, back to the company, meeting, new project, new installation site, new challenge. It’s a job where you can only be really good if you put your heart and soul into it and where you can only achieve a lot with motivated employees and an employer that has confidence in you.

If a machine is exceptionally large and the doors of the machine hall are quite small, you have to be creative. Sometimes the solution is in the roof instead of the door, and the team has to move in through the new lifting path perfectly. This ingenuity is required for many tasks that a specialised fitter or foreman has to master – whether it’s a safe in a lock or an assembly line in a factory.