Career Change Shunting Specialist: Team Marshalling Yard Ai40

Move Switzerland with us.

Career Change Shunting Specialist: Team Marshalling Yard Ai40

Bern

by arrangement

60-100%

102668

What you can look forward to.

At SBB Cargo, you are at the heart of the Swiss economy. SBB Cargo transports 185,000 tonnes daily, relieving the roads of 15,000 lorry journeys per day and the environment by 460,000 tonnes of CO2 annually. An innovative working environment awaits you, where you will move SBB Cargo together with your team colleagues. In addition, you will receive a varied and paid training at the marshalling yard. Furthermore, various further training opportunities are available to you, such as training to become a shunting locomotive driver. Attractive working conditions are important to us, even with irregular working hours. Night and weekend work is additionally compensated – for example, 16 francs per hour for Sunday work. For night shifts, you also receive time bonuses between 10 and 30%. This means you have more free time than employees without night and weekend shifts. Possible start dates 2026:

• 1 August 2026
• 1 October 2026

What you can achieve.

• As a shunting specialist, you contribute to ensuring our customers are served reliably and punctually by preparing freight trains for their journey.
• You take over the wagons, carry out safety checks and prepare the train for the next journey through complex shunting movements.
• You record the necessary data for train management using personal, modern IT devices (e.g. tablet).
• By timely coupling and uncoupling wagons at the customer, you have daily direct customer contact. You receive their feedback and forward it to the responsible department if necessary.

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. You also enjoy working outdoors in all weather conditions.
• Ideally, you have completed basic training or already have professional experience in a craft, logistics or a comparable field.
• Since all instructions and documentation are electronic, you will quickly become familiar with digital tools.
• You are fluent in German (level C1) both spoken and written.
• You have perfect colour vision (no red-green colour blindness) and have no entries in the criminal or debt registers.

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 E, regional allowance level 1. More about salary and benefits .

How to succeed in starting.

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 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 applications from recruitment agencies for this position.

About the position

Beat Aeschlimann, Team Leader Phone +41 79 610 93 18