Dredger Operator / Water Machinist
Marin-Epagnier
Key information
- Publication date:08 August 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Marin-Epagnier
Job summary
Holcim (Suisse) SA is a leading provider of sustainable construction solutions. Join us for a fulfilling career in a supportive and safe environment.
Tasks
- Operate heavy machinery for various extraction tasks on water.
- Maintain and clean equipment, ensuring safety and quality.
- Collaborate closely with teams for efficient operations.
Skills
- Experience as a machinist or heavy equipment operator is preferred.
- Team player with strong communication skills.
- Analytical mindset and attention to detail.
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Holcim (Switzerland) Ltd is one of the leading Swiss suppliers of innovative and sustainable construction solutions in the fields of structural engineering, civil engineering, and infrastructure. With around 1200 employees spread across more than 60 sites throughout Switzerland, we produce concrete, gravel, and cement and recycle demolition materials into resource-efficient products.
Dredger Operator / Water Machinist
Marin-Epagnier, CH, 2074
With us, you can expect a wide range of demanding tasks, where we always pay attention to health, safety, and environmental awareness. We place great importance on your ability to balance work and private life. A collegial working atmosphere, fair employment conditions, and the promotion of your personal development are a given for us.
Application deadline: August 29, 2025
You have experience as a machinist or know how to operate heavy machinery, and you are ready to train for a unique job on the water? This position offers you a varied technical daily routine at the heart of our dredging operations.
What awaits you:
- Extracting the raw material while respecting defined depths and slopes
- Positioning and moving the dredger according to safety instructions and material quality
- Ensuring regular maintenance, upkeep, and cleaning of the dredger
- Managing fuel and parts inventory on the dredger
- Working closely with teams for loading the boat
- Being internally trained to obtain the boat license (cat. C)
- Actively participating in maneuvers: mooring, docking, loading/unloading
What you bring:
- Experience or basic training as a machinist or operator of machinery
- Boat license cat. C and cable excavator: an asset (otherwise training provided)
- Basic knowledge of mechanics, lake navigation, map reading, and computer skills
- Team spirit, sense of responsibility, and good communication
- Analytical skills, rigor, and responsiveness to unforeseen events
- Motivation, autonomy, and willingness to learn a technical job on the water
- Personal commitment to health and safety at work
We are proud to live a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our policies and practices are designed to protect our employees, build trust, and help them reach their full potential.
Our corporate values are the equal treatment of all individuals in employment and employment opportunities. We actively work to ensure that ethnicity or nationality, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, gender, genetic identity, age, disability, and other legally protected characteristics do not play a role in recruitment and talent development. We invite you to be part of our culture and to help us create an inclusive and diverse work environment.
