Lateral Entry Shunter Train Driver

Move Switzerland with us.

Lateral Entry Shunter Train Driver

Zurich

By arrangement

60-100%

100749

What you can look forward to.

About 14,000 employees in passenger transport ensure that the over 1.4 million SBB customers we carry daily have easy access to public transport and travel safely and punctually from A to B. The shunting staff, as a central professional group, make a key contribution to this. An innovative working environment awaits you, where you will move the SBB together with your team colleagues, as well as a varied and paid training. In addition, you have various internal further training opportunities. Attractive working conditions are important to us, even with irregular working hours. Night and weekend work is additionally remunerated with us - for example, 16 francs per hour for Sunday work. For night shifts, you also receive time surcharges between 10 and 30%. This means you have more free time than employees without night and weekend shifts. Possible training start dates 2026/2027:

• 1 October 2026
• 1 January 2027
• 1 March 2027
• 1 May 2027
• 1 June 2027
• 1 August 2027
• 1 October 2027

What you will do.

• You prepare passenger trains for their journey and move them in the station and its surroundings (up to max. 40 km/h) to the correct departure point.
• In doing so, you assemble trains, separate individual carriages and ensure that everything is in the right place.
• You make the train ready to start, check the most important functions and carry out brake checks.
• During your work, you keep an overview and ensure that all processes run safely and smoothly.
• You independently resolve minor faults or report them to the responsible authority.

Here you can learn more about the job profile.

What you bring with you.

• You are attentive, focused and physically resilient to successfully manage this demanding work in a 24-hour shift operation. In addition, you enjoy working outside in all weather conditions.
• Since all instructions and documentation are electronic, you will quickly become familiar with digital tools.
• You have completed basic training (at least EBA) and already have practical experience - ideally from a craft or logistics environment.
• You have very good knowledge of German, both spoken and written (level B2).
• You have perfect colour vision (no red/green colour blindness).

Your salary and benefits.

We have a fair and progressive salary system and actively promote pay equality. Therefore, further and detailed information about the salary system at SBB is transparently available. This position is at requirement level D, regional allowance level 2. More about salary and benefits .

How to succeed in your entry.

Your desire to move Switzerland with us is our greatest motivation. Therefore, we waive a cover letter for this position. If you still want to share your motivation with us, you can still do so in our application tool. Achieving great things is easier on a first-name basis. This starts already with your application.

We do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies for this position.

About the position

Marco Gosetti, Training Manager Phone +41 51 281 53 48