Lateral Entry Train Traffic Controller (Part-time Training)

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Lateral Entry Train Traffic Controller (Part-time Training)

Zurich Airport

01.09.2026

60%

101533

What you can look forward to.

You will undertake a 14-month paid part-time training to become a train traffic controller. After successfully passing the final exam, you will actively contribute from the operations centre at Zurich Airport to ensuring that 9,000 passenger and 2,000 freight trains reach their destinations punctually and safely every day. Even during training, your work-life balance is important to us. Therefore, you can freely choose your practical days during the 60% training period and plan the remaining days well in advance for your life balance. Attractive working conditions are important to us, even with irregular working hours. Night and weekend work are additionally compensated – for example, 16 francs per hour for Sunday work. For night shifts, you also receive time bonuses of 10 to 30%. This means you have more free time than employees without night and weekend shifts.

What you can achieve.

• As a train traffic controller, you play an important role in the smooth running of rail traffic and have a great influence on customer satisfaction.
• You keep an overview of the assigned network and direct the trains running on it in an environmentally friendly manner.
• To do this, you communicate with team colleagues, train drivers, and control centres and are responsible for providing information to our customers at stations.
• If a disruption occurs, you respond safely and quickly to restore normal operations.
• In your daily work, you use a variety of systems. Accordingly, your work is based on trust in the interaction between humans and technology.

Learn more about the job profile at the next career information event .

What you bring with you.

• For this demanding work, you are conscientious, reliable, a team player, and willing to work in a 24-hour shift system.
• Your interconnected thinking and independent working style help you react quickly and correctly in case of disruptions.
• You have completed a 3-year vocational training or the Matura (Swiss high school diploma).
• You are fluent in the language of the training location, both spoken and written (level C2), and ideally have knowledge of a second national language (level A1).
• You have perfect colour vision (no red/green colour blindness).
• During the application process, we will require a current criminal record and debt collection register extract (not older than 3 months). You can order these documents when invited for a personal interview.

Your salary and benefits.

Classification during the training corresponds to the function and age. More about the specific salary for this role can be found under Lateral Entry .

How to succeed in starting.

Your desire to move Switzerland with us is our greatest motivation. Therefore, we waive a motivation 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 with your application.

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

About the position

Team Leaders Operations Centre East Phone +41 79 734 59 07