Lateral Entry Train Driver: Construction Train with Craft Experience

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Lateral Entry Train Driver: Construction Train with Craft Experience

Olten

01.05.2026 or by arrangement

100%

102713

What you can look forward to.

You will undertake a varied, paid 9-month full-time training. The theoretical training takes place in Olten or Zurich 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, e.g. with an hourly wage supplement of 16 francs for Sunday work. For night shifts, you receive time bonuses of 10 to 30%, which gives 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 can be found here.

What you can achieve.

• As a construction train driver, you make a significant contribution to ensuring the renewal of the tracks (rails, 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, request, and order driving schedules on time and are responsible for supplying construction sites with the necessary materials.
• You bear great responsibility for the operational safety of the construction trains. Checking the safety of the worksite and preparing reports complete the tasks.
• Additionally, as a construction train driver, you will be deployed on the construction site and 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 and with experience in track construction or a completed Matura (school leaving certificate).
• 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 register.

Your salary and benefits.

The classification during the training corresponds to the function and age. More about the specific salary for this role can be found under Lateral Entry .

How to succeed in starting.

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

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

About the position

Josip Aracic, Team Leader Phone +41 79 586 17 10