Apprentice Medical Device Technologist CFC

Interns, students, apprentices

Apprentice Medical Device Technologist CFC

Want to learn a technical and useful profession where you ensure sterile, traceable, and ready-to-use devices for operating rooms? Join the Sterilization and Disinfection Center of the CHUV from August 2026!

Context

The Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) is one of the five Swiss university hospitals and ranks among the best hospital institutions worldwide according to the Newsweek 2025 ranking. Thanks to its collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and EPFL, it plays a leading role in care, research, and education.

Attached to the Hospital Logistics Department (DLOH), the Sterilization and Disinfection Center provides sterile and functional products to all CHUV services, affiliated institutions, and external clients. Certified ISO 13485, it is a reference for the reprocessing of medical devices and participates in the training and information of healthcare professionals.

Mission

• You reprocess medical devices in compliance with quality and institutional guidelines (pre-disinfection, washing, disinfection, control, assembly/packaging, sterilization, storage)
• You perform tasks related to all stages of the process and manage priorities (planned flow/emergencies)
• You identify the material, label it, and ensure its traceability in dedicated systems
• You carry out routine checks on equipment (e.g., autoclaves, washer-disinfectors), detect non-conformities, and apply required actions
• You strictly apply safety, hygiene rules, regulatory dress code, and hand disinfection
• You collaborate with operating room teams and care units to ensure sterile, functional devices delivered on time.

Profile

• You have completed your compulsory schooling
• You demonstrate autonomy, rigor, and precision
• You have analytical skills and can adapt to technical evolution
• You enjoy working in a team and communicate clearly
• Assets: high sense of hygiene, attention to detail, manual dexterity, ease with traceability IT tools, endurance (standing, wearing PPE)

We offer

By joining CHUV as an apprentice, you benefit from:

• A complete, varied, and professional training at the heart of a university hospital
• Close supervision provided by experienced trainers
• The possibility to continue your professional career at CHUV after the apprenticeship
• And many benefits reserved for apprentices (meals, transport discounts, social network, etc.)

Becoming a collaborator of the Lausanne University Hospital means benefiting from:

• Top-tier social benefits, 20 days paternity leave, and 4 months maternity leave (with the possibility of an additional month of breastfeeding leave)
• Regular salary progression adapted to responsibilities
• A 13th salary and 25 days of vacation per year
• A right to at least three days of training per year, with access to a varied offer within the CHUV Training Center and partner training centers of the State of Vaud
• Social, cultural, and economic benefits offered to members of the H-Oxygène association
• Benefits proposed within the mobility plan (discounts on public transport subscriptions, promotion of "Mobility" vehicles, and discounts on electric bike purchases)
• Company restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: For any information regarding the position, please contact Ms. Isabelle Curchod, Training Coordinator at 021 314 58 41.

Since all our applications are processed electronically, we kindly ask you to apply exclusively online by clicking the APPLY button at the bottom of the announcement.

If you have difficulty applying, you can consult our procedure on how to apply online. If for technical reasons you cannot apply online, we invite you to contact our Recruitment Unit, which will assist you in your process, either by email at e.recrutement@chuv.ch or by phone at 021 314 85 70.

CHUV applies the highest quality standards in its recruitment processes. Furthermore, committed to promoting diversity among our collaborators, we pay attention to different life paths and do everything possible to ensure equal treatment and avoid any discrimination. We look forward to receiving your application.