Operations Manager Recycling Centers & Logistics 100% | Jaberg

There are many good reasons to apply at AVAG. You can find out what they are here.

Are you looking for a job with variety? Do plants and machines make your heart beat faster and efficient processes are exactly your thing? Do you lead employees with clarity and sensitivity, and is it important to you to promote them? Then you are exactly right with us!

AVAG Umwelt AG is the regionally leading disposal, recycling, and energy company for around 130 municipalities and their populations as well as numerous commercial and industrial customers. With our commitment, we make an important contribution to closing numerous material cycles, the energy transition in the region, and the careful handling of the environment – in short: we turn yesterday into tomorrow.

Your field of activity

• In this position, you take responsibility for the entire site operation and around 20 employees in logistics, recycling, and metal processing.
• Specifically, this includes piece goods logistics, a plant for processing street collector sludge, the entire metal value creation with can and light metal sorting, as well as the transshipment for the material flows of the region.
• You are responsible for the efficient deployment planning of personnel, machines, and vehicles. In addition, you work closely with dispatch, maintenance, safety, sales, and marketing.
• You shape a culture of respectful cooperation. Your leadership style is clear, visible, and binding. Employees are developed, challenged, promoted, and given responsibility by you.
• Furthermore, your tasks include initiating and sustainably implementing projects and improvements. You actively accompany changes in processes and standards, provide orientation, and create stability.

Your profile

• For this key role, we are looking for a personality who takes leadership seriously, empowers people, optimizes processes, and actively shapes change.
• You bring several years of practical leadership experience in a technical, industrial, or logistical environment.
• Ideally, you have a technical or operational education (EFZ) with further training at HF/FH level or comparable.
• You are a personality who leads before problems arise, engages people, and sets a direction. You have assertiveness combined with social competence. You enjoy developing employees further and have the necessary sensitivity to stabilize teams. In addition, you have strong communication skills and a high sense of responsibility.
• You work in a structured way, think in processes, and bring project competence. For this, you have a strong ability to organize complexity and set priorities. At the same time, you live a hands-on mentality, are solution-oriented, pragmatic, focused, and are not afraid to get your hands dirty yourself.

These advantages await you with us

• To guarantee that your salary is fair, we regularly participate in nationwide industry salary comparisons.
• Fair naturally also means gender-independent.
• Of course, we pay a 13th monthly salary. Not so self-evident is that we cover the employee social security contributions (AHV, IV, EO, ALV) on it.
• Simply put: the 13th monthly salary is gross equals net.
• Even simpler: with the 13th monthly salary, (even) more money lands in your account!
• We cover your premiums for non-occupational accident insurance (NBU) as well as for daily sickness allowance insurance.
• At AVAG, your entire annual income is insured with the pension fund – unlike many employers who deduct the coordination deduction, i.e., CHF 26,460.00 (year 2025), from the annual income and only insure the remainder. This has three advantages:
• This means that lower incomes (part-time employees) are also insured with us.
• In addition, your retirement capital automatically increases, so your monthly pension will be higher later.
• In the event of possible insurance benefits due to illness or disability, you are better protected.
• Are you already thinking about your retirement? When the time comes, we pay for you and your partner a one-day seminar at an external expert office and provide advisory support if needed.
• The paid maternity leave is 16 weeks, and the salary is paid 100% during this time. New fathers receive two weeks of paternity leave; also at 100% salary.
• And who takes care of your offspring now? We provide a support contribution (CHF 150.00 per child per month) for external, paid childcare.
• We offer part-time positions, and depending on the position, thanks to our modern IT infrastructure, home office is also an option.

Do you like going back to school? We think that's so great that we participate in function-related training and further education! Of course, we conclude fair training agreements for this.

In addition, you benefit from regular specialized courses with us so that you can keep your know-how up to date.

With us, you get the opportunity to continuously develop yourself in everyday work and also take on new challenges. By the way, career changers are also warmly welcome.

• You get 25 vacation days annually with us and even 30 from the age of 50!
• Do you want to see more of the world? Then as an AVAG employee, you have the option to buy one to two weeks of vacation per year.
• As an AVAG employee, you best bring your "Ghüderseckli" to work, because with us you dispose of your personal household waste for free.
• Your work clothing and safety equipment are of course provided by us. And because we know that you sometimes sweat a lot with all the hard work, we take care of the cleaning for you – free of charge.
• You also pay nothing for parking with us. In addition, charging options for e-vehicles are available – and at preferential conditions.
• Only the best for your vegetables! Our employees can obtain quality compost free of charge for personal use at the Biomass Center Spiez.
• You have to bring your own snack with you; however, the break coffee is free depending on the location or is compensated as a beverage allowance with the salary. In addition, we release a fruity vitamin bomb every week.
• Not quite free, but worth mentioning are our numerous pool vehicles available to all employees at work. Outside opening hours, you may also use the vehicles privately for a small fee.
• Do you suffer from shopping fever? For private purposes, you may benefit from AVAG purchasing conditions.
• Surprise! On special occasions, you don't get a wet handshake from us but a nice gift! And sometimes we don't even need a reason to surprise you with a small attention.
• If you stay loyal to us, you receive a generous loyalty bonus on anniversaries, either in the form of money or additional vacation days.
• If you stay loyal to us until the end and retire at AVAG, you will still belong to us afterwards. We invite you to a retirees' excursion every year, and you can continue to dispose of your personal household waste with us for free.
• We also like it relaxed sometimes, e.g., twice a year at a company orientation including a joint dinner. In addition, there are other events and occasions where we toast together.
• Idle time and complicated structures are anathema to us. Therefore, you will find flat hierarchies, short communication paths, and continuity with us. And we all use the informal "Du" form.
• You don't have to risk your head and neck with us. Before starting the job, we create your personal health burden profile together, and you receive an introduction to the most important basics of occupational safety.
• Of course, we provide you with suitable protective equipment and ensure that hazards are minimized.
• Safety has such a high priority with us that this area is even represented in management, and we also have a certified management system for safety and health (ISO 45002:2018).