Maintenance Technician in Sanitary - 100%

Company Description

With more than 12,000 employees representing 160 professions, the University Hospitals of Geneva are a nationally and internationally recognized institution. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to view our 2024 retrospective by clicking  here .

The position is attached to the Real Estate Directorate (DI), which is responsible for defining a real estate portfolio strategy, developing coherence in the monitoring of major projects according to the 2022-2040 hospital master plan, in close partnership with the main State services linked to the Department of Territory, the Department of Infrastructure, and the Department of Health, optimizing the monitoring of surfaces and future planning, while ensuring the smooth operation of services. More than 230 professionals carry out their missions daily with constant rigor, a sense of service, and environmental responsibility.

The operational continuity service for infrastructures is a service provider whose main mission is, thanks to the presence on each site of employees from various trades, to ensure the maintenance of the hospital estate composed of medical and logistical equipment, buildings, and their installations.

Job Description

You maintain, monitor, troubleshoot, revise, improve, and ensure the efficient operation of installations and equipment specific to the sanitary workshop of the CVSGm sector.

You autonomously decide on actions to be taken, respecting priorities defined in terms of vital or secondary parameters for the safety of patients, staff, and the property.

You ensure preventive and corrective maintenance. You assist with periodic inspections carried out by accredited organizations and perform control rounds and regular readings.

You monitor the condition of installations and handle alarms from surveillance systems (building technical management). You keep work documents up to date and place orders for material replenishment.

You actively participate in the development of procedures according to technological evolutions.

You act as a technical advisor to users and supervise and monitor work carried out by external companies.

You enjoy finding solutions to complex technical problems and also thrive in performing simpler, routine tasks.

You are autonomous and also appreciate teamwork, while respecting an established schedule.

You handle urgent interventions upon request from the control center and during on-call duty for long weekends (more than 2 consecutive days).

Qualifications

You hold a Federal VET Diploma (CFC) as a sanitary fitter or an equivalent diploma complemented by at least 5 years of professional experience in the maintenance and troubleshooting of sanitary installations.

You have very good theoretical and practical knowledge in the sanitary field.

You have good knowledge of common office software (Microsoft Office) as well as experience using CMMS software.

Your strong customer service orientation, team spirit, and openness to change allow you to perform your work with ease and integrate quickly.

You have perfect command of spoken and written French, expressing yourself clearly and concisely.

Thanks to your calm, composed, and discreet personality, you easily establish trust with your interlocutors, demonstrate cooperation and collaboration to assist colleagues while being sensitive to the presence of patients and hospital constraints.

Additional Information

You have a regular schedule but are available outside of working hours including nights, weekends, and public holidays for on-call duty according to rotation and urgent interventions.

• Start date: to be agreed 
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 100%
• Function class: 11 (maintenance technician 3)
• Contract: one-year fixed-term contract
• Application deadline: 13.11.2025
• Contact for information : Mr. H. Carvalho, sanitary workshop group leader, tel. 022 372 68 72

Your application file must include a motivation letter, your CV, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men. 

Committed to fighting unemployment, the HUG encourages applications coming from the Cantonal Employment Office.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.