Career Changer: Train Dispatcher 100%

About the job

Do you like taking responsibility and can you set priorities correctly? Do you remain calm in hectic situations and can you react quickly and purposefully? Do you like to keep an overview and want to contribute to a well-functioning public transport system? Then after the 8-month training, you will be in your element with us.

These are your tasks

• You direct and monitor shunting and train movements on the SZU network (S4 and S10).
• In case of operational deviations, you initiate appropriate measures and coordinate train traffic and personnel.
• You ensure customer information during normal operations and especially in the event of disruptions and irregularities.
• You are responsible for vehicle deployment planning.
• You create and coordinate operational orders and processes.

These are your key competencies

• You have completed a 3-year vocational training or the Matura.
• You remain calm in hectic situations and prioritise the tasks at hand quickly and correctly.
• You like to take responsibility and ensure the safety of rail traffic and our passengers through your decisions and actions.
• You have a quick grasp, are strong in communication and confident in negotiation in German, both spoken and written.
• You are a team player, willing to work shifts (24-hour operation), and have good IT skills.
• Your colour vision is flawless (no red-green colour blindness).

Training in detail

In just eight months, you qualify as a train dispatcher / train traffic controller and complete the training with theoretical and practical proficiency exams. Together with prospective train traffic controllers from other infrastructure operators (ISB), you complete the modular training. SZU covers the costs and pays you throughout the training period. After successful completion, you will be offered a permanent position as a train dispatcher at the Zürich Giesshübel location at SZU.

Training start: 1 March 2027

As part of your application process, we warmly invite you to visit our traffic control centre after the interview. This way, you get to know your future workplace and potential area of responsibility.

What we offer you as a train dispatcher

You ensure that thousands of people in the Zürich region reach their destinations reliably every day and make an important contribution to climate-friendly, future-oriented mobility. In addition to a meaningful job, we offer you convincing working and employment conditions, a healthy work-life balance, and attractive additional benefits. And all employees receive appreciation and respect.

Do you accept the challenge?

Then we look forward to getting to know you. Simply upload your complete application documents via the button below. And if you have any questions, our Head of Planning & Control Michael Wasserfallen (phone 076 284 96 86 *), our technical manager Control Steve Grötzebauch (phone 076 387 91 73 *), and our HR specialist Karolina Gajer (phone 076 329 80 22 *) will be happy to answer them.