Verein Horizonte
Thalwil
Printing Centre. Promising Workplace.
- 15 September 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- Thalwil
Job summary
At Horizonte Druckzentrum, we offer protected jobs for those with mental health challenges. Join a supportive environment that boosts self-confidence and improves quality of life.
Tasks
- Provide tailored job opportunities in printing and design.
- Facilitate skill development under professional guidance.
- Ensure economic viability while meeting employee needs.
Skills
- Candidates must work a minimum of 5 half-days per week.
- Experience in printing or design is a plus.
- Ability to work independently and in a team.
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About the job
At Horizonte Printing Centre, we offer people who cannot find employment in the open labour market due to a psychological impairment a sheltered workplace. Our goal is to increase self-confidence and thereby improve quality of life.
The various assignments in our printing centre enable us to provide different work opportunities and, if possible, to adapt them to the existing skills of our employees. Under professional guidance, individual skills are promoted, aiming for an independent way of working, which also maintains the connection to the working world. The economic yield of one’s own work performance gives employment in our printing centre a meaningful significance and contributes to the structuring of the day.
The printing centre is managed according to economic principles. At the same time, we strive for an operational structure that is best aligned with the needs of our employees with psychological impairments. On behalf of the disability insurance, we also carry out specific reintegration measures.
We have 22 sheltered workplaces in the following areas:
- Copyshop: Printing brochures, flyers, single sheets, mail merges etc. from data or copying from originals.
- Prepress: Typesetting and design work on Mac computers using InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Imposition and exposure of printing plates with industry-standard imposition software.
- Printing: Brochures, books, flyers, letterheads, business cards, envelopes, cards etc. on our offset printing machines.
- Printing equipment: Machine cutting, die-cutting, creasing and folding.
- Manual print finishing: Scoring, folding and gluing folders, stapling brochures, collating and inserting letters and enclosures, addressing and counting envelopes, laminating tram hangers etc.
Additionally, we offer vocational basic training for Media Technologist with Federal VET Diploma (specialising in Print or Print Media Technology), Print Media Practitioner with Federal VET Certificate (specialising in Printing Equipment) and Polygraph with Federal VET Diploma (specialising in Print Media).
Working hours
Morning: 08:10 – 11:50 = 3.75 hrs.
Afternoon: 13:10 – 16:20 = 3.25 hrs.
The essentials in brief.
Target group
People with a psychological impairment who can work at least 5 half-days per week.
Employment conditions
• Ability to work at least 5 half-days per week
• Assurance of social and specialist medical care
• Entry age between 19 and 65 years
• Receipt of disability pension or cost approval
• Work results must be usable
Salary
All employees are paid according to performance and on an hourly wage basis. This wage is considered additional income to the disability pension.
Visit
If you would like to visit the printing centre and meet our team, you are warmly invited. Please arrange an appointment in advance.
