Mobile Crane Service Technician

🔧 Passion instead of standard. With us, you work on machines that lift 60 tonnes – mobile cranes where hydraulics, electronics and chassis must work perfectly together because no one can improvise on the construction site. Whether you come to us as a automotive mechatronics technician EFZ, construction machinery mechanic EFZ, agricultural machinery mechanic EFZ or as a truck mechanic: in Windisch you will find a niche that you will hardly find a second time.

For over 100 years, Gebr. Knecht AG has been a reliable partner in commercial vehicles, construction machinery, bodywork and signage. Owner-managed, family-oriented, at four locations in Switzerland and since 2024 part of the Thomann Commercial Vehicle Group with a total of eleven locations throughout German-speaking Switzerland.

You keep mobile cranes operational – from scheduled service to troubleshooting under time pressure.

• Repair & maintenance: You get mobile cranes running again – hydraulics, drivetrain, chassis and superstructure
• Hydraulics in focus: Cylinders, pumps, valves and lines – you check, seal and repair
• Diagnosis & fault finding: You narrow down electronic and mechanical faults with modern diagnostic technology and fix them precisely
• Maintenance & service: Periodic service work, safety inspections and preparation for crane inspections
• Careful documentation: Clearly recorded, comprehensible for customers and team

• Completed training as automotive mechatronics technician EFZ commercial vehicles, construction machinery mechanic or equivalent qualification
• Experience with hydraulics is an advantage, enthusiasm for it is a prerequisite
• Independent, precise working method – also under time pressure in on-call cases
• Willingness for on-call and field assignments
• Team player eager to specialise in a niche area
• Driving licence category B required, category C/CE advantageous

• 🏗️ Specialist area with a future: Mobile crane technology is niche know-how that makes you unique in the job market
• 📈 Targeted further training – we actively support you with manufacturer courses and qualification as a diagnostician
• 🔩 Workshop for professionals: clearly structured, well equipped – everything you need to work quickly and precisely
• 🏆 Quality we are proud of: clear processes, modern technology and safe workplaces
• 🤝 Strong team culture in a workshop team of 31 with many long-standing employees
• 🌴 Discounts from the Knecht Group – 5 to 10% discount on holidays, package deals and coach trips as well as other offers from third-party companies

🤔 Why us – and not another company?

• Over 100 years of experience, but no stagnation: We are not an anonymous large corporation, but an owner-managed family business – decisions are made here with us, not in a distant headquarters
• Versatility instead of one-way street: Mobile cranes, trucks, buses, construction machinery – with us you work on a range that other companies do not offer
• Career changers welcome: If you come from trucks or agricultural machinery, we will build up your crane know-how together – you don’t have to know everything yet
• More than a job: As part of the Knecht Group and the Thomann Commercial Vehicle Group, eleven locations and sister companies such as Thomann Commercial Vehicles, Eurobus or Welti-Furrer are open to you if you want to reorient yourself later