Repair Technician: Outdoor Clothing 60 - 100% fixed term until May 2026

Transa Backpacking AG

Basel

Key information

Publication date:28 July 2025
Workload:60 – 100%
Contract type:Permanent position
Place of work:Basel

Job summary

Join Transa Backpacking AG as a Repairer of Outdoor Clothing, helping extend product life! Enjoy a supportive work environment with great benefits.

Tasks

Receive, adjust, and repair clothing and textiles with care.
Collaborate with customers to find service-oriented solutions.
Sew outdoor fabrics and ensure waterproof seams effectively.

Skills

Completed training as a tailor, sewer, or clothing designer required.
Strong hands-on skills with sewing machines and outdoor gear.
Reliable and independent with excellent customer service abilities.

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For our repair workshop in Zurich Altstetten, we are looking for you as a Repair Technician: Outdoor Clothing 60 - 100% immediately or by arrangement. This position is fixed term until May 2026. Do you have practical experience with outdoor products and want to give them a second life in our repair workshop? Are you looking for an exciting position full-time or part-time? Then read on...

YOUR SPECIALTY AS A REPAIR TECHNICIAN

Receiving, adjustments, and high-quality repairs of clothing and textile items. Your thing.
Discussing, exchanging knowledge, and finding service-oriented solutions for customer needs. The best in the world.
Sewing outdoor fabrics and ensuring a waterproof seam. No problem.
Placing your work in the context of a sustainable environment in the area of Repair & Care. Wow, perfect.
Supporting the development of the repair workshop and keeping the sewing machines in good condition. That’s part of it.

THIS IS YOU

Creating and maintaining high-quality works for outdoor adventures with your hands and a sewing machine. That’s you.
Completed vocational training as a tailor, seamstress, clothing designer, or similar. You can see it in your profile.
An open ear for our customers in the repair workshop Zurich Altstetten. That’s needed.
Your environment describes you as reliable and independent. Great.

YOUR BENEFITS

A spirit of outdoor enthusiasts that can move mountains
Employee events from climbing to cooking outdoors
Generous employee discounts and above-average, part-time friendly social benefits
A 40-hour week or flexible working time models (depending on the model, there are up to 7.5 weeks of vacation per year) and the possibility of unpaid leave
Development opportunities on a professional and personal level
And much more

Is the right equipment in your backpack? Does this role as a Repair Technician: Outdoor Clothing in full-time or part-time in Zurich Altstetten appeal to you?
Then we look forward to your online application.
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THIS IS US

Transa Backpacking AG has been the competence center for high-quality travel and outdoor equipment for over 45 years. The motto "Get out. But right." is lived by around 450 employees. We are organized in circles and use the patterns of Sociocracy 3.0 - this allows employees to be deployed according to their abilities. In the branches Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lucerne, St. Gallen, and Winterthur, as well as the two outlet branches, there are over 42,000 products from around 550 brands. If products do get damaged, we take care of them in one of the three repair workshops. Our workshop team repairs around 10,000 items of equipment annually, ensuring a longer use of favorite pieces.

MORE INFORMATION

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Nathalie from the Repair & Care team: nathalie.schertenleib@transa.ch (please do not send us your application by email for data protection reasons)

or visit us online: www.transa.ch

We would like to fill this position as a Repair Technician: Outdoor Clothing part-time or full-time in Zurich without support from personnel service providers.

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