Career Change Train Driver: Construction Train with Craft Experience

Move Switzerland with us.

Career Change Train Driver: Construction Train with Craft Experience

Rapperswil SG

01.10.2026

100%

103144

What you can look forward to.

You will undertake a varied, paid 9-month full-time training. The theoretical training takes place in Olten and you will gain your first practical experience at a regionally assigned shunting yard. You see irregular working hours and shift work as an advantage to enjoy your free time while others are working. Night and weekend work is additionally compensated, for example with an hourly wage supplement of 16 francs for Sunday work. For night shifts, you receive time bonuses of 10 to 30%, which allows you more free time. Benefits such as a free GA travelcard, discounted travel abroad – also for the family – can be found on our website under Benefits, and more information about the profession is available here .

What you can achieve.

• As a construction train driver, you make a significant contribution to ensuring the renewal of routes (tracks, ballast, etc.).
• You independently perform and conduct various complex shunting movements of trains up to a maximum of 100 km/h, assemble and disassemble them, and prepare them for travel.
• To ensure regional logistics, you design, apply for, and order timetables punctually and are responsible for supplying construction sites with the necessary materials.
• You bear high responsibility for the operational safety of construction trains. Checking the safety of work sites and preparing reports complete your tasks.
• Additionally, you will be deployed as a construction train driver on the construction site, where your craft skills will be required.

What you bring with you.

• For this demanding work, you are conscientious, reliable, a team player, and willing to work in a 24-hour shift system.
• You are physically and mentally resilient and can act consciously and correctly with your independent working style.
• You have at least a two-year recognised vocational training including a certificate of competence, ideally in the construction industry with experience in track construction, or a completed Matura.
• Fluent German skills (level C1) in spoken and written form are required.
• You hold a category B driving licence.
• You have perfect colour vision (no red/green colour blindness) and have no entries in the criminal or debt registers.

Your salary and benefits.

Classification during the second training phase is based on function and age. More about the specific salary for this role can be found under Career Change .

How to succeed in starting.

Your desire to move Switzerland with us is our greatest motivation. Therefore, we waive a motivation letter for this position. If you still want to share your motivation with us, you can do so in our application tool. Achieving great things is easier on a first-name basis. This starts with your application.

We do not accept applications from recruitment agencies for this position.

About the position

Fabian Heuberger, Team Leader Phone +41 79 713 70 75