Basel
Workshop Manager Light Municipal Vehicles
- 19 August 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent), English (Intermediate)
- 4001 Basel
About the job
80%-100%
Construction and Transport Department, Civil Engineering Office, Operations
by arrangement
Your Tasks
Main function workshop management: You lead our workshop for light municipal vehicles and ambulance vehicles (RTWs) with around 6 employees and manage your team both professionally and personally.
Planning and coordination: Your responsibilities include coordinating and planning all maintenance work, receiving vehicles, and handing them over after completion. Furthermore, you prepare maintenance orders and close them again after execution and inspection. Additionally, you ensure with deployment planning that all orders can be completed on time.
Professional support and further development: With your expertise, you assist your employees with professional and technical problems. You conduct technical clarifications with suppliers or manufacturers and take care of the further development of your team through training and careful induction of new employees.
Quality assurance and occupational safety: You are responsible for compliance with quality and ensure that all work is carried out professionally and properly according to manufacturer specifications. You ensure compliance with occupational safety and environmental regulations and maintain cleanliness and order in the workshop.
Customer orientation: With your professional appearance, you ensure a considerate approach to internal and external contacts and are a competent specialist for our customers and suppliers.
Your Profile
Experience: You have several years of experience in managing a workshop and a team. Professional experience in the municipal or commercial vehicle sector would be an advantage.
Personality: You are an outgoing person with a confident manner, good communication skills, and a healthy assertiveness. Leading, supporting, and motivating people brings you joy. Furthermore, you are very technically skilled and convince with problem-solving abilities.
Education: You have completed vocational training as an automotive diagnostician or master; further training in vehicle high-voltage systems and mobile hydraulics would be an advantage. Furthermore, you bring good knowledge of common MS Office applications. Driving licences classes B, BE, and C are required.
Language: In addition to your good German skills in spoken and written form, you have English skills at school level.
Insight into our Work
The Civil Engineering Office coordinates, plans, builds, documents, and maintains roads with associated infrastructures and is responsible for public sewage systems. It is responsible for flood protection and safe traffic routes. It also coordinates the use of public spaces and is the lead authority in the approval process. It collects and disposes of waste and ensures cleanliness in the city of Basel. The Civil Engineering Office makes an important contribution to a high quality of life in Basel and is part of the Construction and Transport Department.
We support your professional advancement with a variety of training and development opportunities throughout all stages of life.
We cover the larger share of ongoing contributions, offer savings plan options, and possibilities for flexible retirement.
thanks to professional care management and one hundred percent continued salary payment in case of illness or accident throughout the entire employment relationship.
Your Contact
Questions about the role
Ralf Schelb
Head of Vehicle Department
Tel. +41 61 267 11 50
Questions about your application
Sibylle Wyss
HR Business Partner
Tel. +41 61 267 91 13
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Working for Basel-Stadt.
Something all our more than 11,000 employees have in common: They engage at the pulse of the city by supporting, enabling, directing, shaping, and protecting. In doing so, they contribute every day with their commitment to making Basel-Stadt a place worth living and loving. As diverse as our tasks are our employees and their opportunities. Welcome to the team of the Canton of Basel-Stadt!