Career Changer Specialist: Railway Rescue

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Career Changer Specialist: Railway Rescue

Brig-Glis

01.01.2027 or by arrangement

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103986

What you can look forward to.

At the SBB intervention unit, you are ready around the clock for emergencies. Over 80 modern emergency vehicles on rails and roads are deployed. What makes this profession unique? You are a railway specialist, train driver, and firefighter all in one. In the event of an incident, you ensure the safety of our customers and help to restore normal rail traffic as quickly as possible. Attractive working conditions are important to us.

What you can achieve.

• In an alarm situation and during exercises, you deploy as a train driver with the fire and rescue train alongside your team, ensuring the safety of our customers.
• In incidents affecting rail traffic, you share responsibility for protecting people, animals, the environment, and rail infrastructure.
• On site, you ensure the safety of all travellers, fight fires on and beside the tracks, provide oil and chemical spill response as well as technical assistance. The use of drones helps to quickly assess the situation.
• You regularly train various workflows and techniques to ensure smooth incident management at all times. You work a 24-hour shift system from Monday to Friday and are on call at weekends. Irregular working hours are the norm with us. In return, you can enjoy free ski slopes during the week and arrange your leisure time more flexibly.

Learn more about the job profile here .

What you bring with you.

• Thanks to your strong sense of responsibility and safety awareness, you understand the dependencies and impacts on your team and your work. We value teamwork and community, on which you can always rely. This includes enjoying working independently and being physically and mentally resilient.
• You have completed a vocational apprenticeship with a Federal VET Diploma (EFZ). You already hold a driving licence for category B100 traction vehicles or are willing to complete the corresponding internal paid training.
• You hold a driving licence category B and ideally also category C1 118.
• You have respiratory protection fitness and experience as a firefighter.
• You are fluent in German (spoken and written) and are willing to obtain a French diploma at level A1.
• During the application process, we will require a current criminal record and debt enforcement register extract (not older than 3 months). This document can be ordered when invited for a personal interview.

Your salary and benefits.

Classification during the second training phase is based on function and age. More information about the specific salary for this role can be found under Career Changer .

How to succeed in starting.

Your desire to move Switzerland with us is our greatest motivation. Therefore, we do not require a cover letter for this position. If you still wish to share your motivation, you can do so in our application tool. Achieving great things is easier on a first-name basis. This starts with your application.

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

About the position

Michael Imhof, Site Manager Phone +41 79 502 26 55