Specialist in Facility Maintenance EFZ

About the job

Together for quality of life

Specialist in Facility Maintenance EFZ

Apprenticeship

Workplace: Cazis

Workload: 100%

At the Beverin Clinics in Cazis and Waldhaus in Chur, we train apprentices as specialists in facility maintenance in the field of building services.

You monitor building technology, carry out repairs and maintenance work, care for green spaces, and maintain machines. You also take care of proper waste management. Our facility maintenance specialists are responsible for ensuring that all technical installations in buildings and the adjacent clinic and residential areas function properly. In your work, you use various devices, machines, and vehicles such as high-pressure cleaners, lawnmowers, or snow removal vehicles. You maintain and clean these tools and carry out minor repairs yourself.

Our approach to your training

• We strive for a learning environment characterised by mutual respect, tolerance, and openness.
• We provide you with space to assume your role as an apprentice specialist in facility maintenance.
• We enable various learning methods that promote individual, holistic, and self-directed learning.
• We have clear regulations, and we define the scope of action together.
• You learn through practical work and reflection, systematically using leadership and training tools.
• We see learning in practice as a continuous and progressive process.
• Through differentiated, constructive, and justified feedback, we achieve learning success together and promote your transfer thinking – from theory to practice.

Key points of your training

Your apprenticeship lasts 3 years and takes place across three learning fields:

• School education takes place one day per week at the Vocational School (GBC) in Chur.
• Inter-company courses (ÜK) support your learning success by imparting fundamental and industry-specific skills.
• The professional learning field is provided at the Beverin Clinics in Cazis and Waldhaus in Chur as well as in the residential centres in Chur, Rothenbrunnen, and Landquart. The main workplace during your training is the Beverin Clinic in Cazis.

We support you if you aim to obtain the vocational baccalaureate (BM) during your apprenticeship. Please indicate your interest in your application.

During your vocational training, you have five weeks of holiday per year.

At the Cazis location, we offer affordable accommodation options if daily commuting between home and workplace involves a significant time commitment.

Our requirements for you

• You have manual dexterity
• You have practical-technical understanding
• You are resilient and responsible
• You are a team player and act customer-oriented

Perspectives after your apprenticeship

After completing your apprenticeship, you can work as a specialist in facility maintenance or obtain a federal diploma as a caretaker or road maintenance foreman through the professional examination.

With the advanced federal examination, you can obtain a federal diploma as a building cleaner, maintenance manager, or facility management leader.

At the university of applied sciences, you can earn a Bachelor of Science (FH) in Facility Management.

Selection procedure

After reviewing your application, you will be informed about the selection decision. If you are shortlisted, the training manager will arrange an interview and selection days. The selection days give you insight into everyday work, and we get to know each other better. The selection days are organised by us and take place at the Beverin Clinic in Cazis.

The employment decision is made by at least two people, usually the training manager and a trainer.

Your benefits at a glance

We offer you a vocational training tailored to you. At PDGR, we generally provide all apprenticeships at the Federal VET Certificate (EFZ) level.

Training for the Federal VET Certificate (EBA) is possible depending on prerequisites and in certain professions after consultation with the education department.

We support you if you aim to obtain the vocational baccalaureate (BM) during your apprenticeship. Please indicate your interest in your application.

As a competitive athlete, we enable you, in consultation with the Office for Vocational Education and your sports association/club, to have special training conditions to create an ideal combination between vocational training and competitive sport. During the preliminary assessment, we carefully check whether your sport is compatible with your chosen apprenticeship and training goals.

All our apprentices receive 5 weeks of holiday per year. If you work under the 43-hour week model, you even get 5 additional days off (compensation days). These are worked in advance throughout the year within the 43-hour week.

At the induction days in August, you meet all new apprentices at the Beverin Clinic in Cazis. After a welcome by Josef Müller, CEO, you receive initial insights into PDGR and get job-specific information about your apprenticeship start. The day concludes with a joint aperitif attended by your trainer. Your parents and relatives are, of course, also invited.

The next two days are spent together by all new apprentices. We work on various topics in workshops to prepare you for the start of your apprenticeship.

Out of the everyday – the apprentice day is the annual highlight for our apprentices. Once a year, you meet all apprentices for a joint activity. Gold panning in the Surselva, planting fir trees with the WWF in Prättigau, or visiting the RhB workshops in Landquart are examples from past apprentice days.

The day promotes exchange among apprentices from different professions and offers you an interdisciplinary experience.

Each profession has industry-standard apprentice wages. Would you like a bit more? We value our youngest employees and are happy to pay our apprentices a little extra so they can manage well with their first income. Additionally, there is a 13th-month salary. Allowances for work on Sundays and evenings, for example as a health specialist, are also provided – always within the framework of youth protection.

Tips for your budget planning can be found here.

We strive to provide apprentices with a varied and well-supported apprenticeship in all areas and professions. As a company with over 1,200 employees, we use our diverse opportunities. This allows us to give our apprentices insights into different areas and enables them to complete parts of their apprenticeship at different locations.

No matter the profession – you are part of the PDGR team and work with different employees and professions.

"Community" is one of our core values: Everyone contributes their individuality and works constructively with other professions – this is how we progress. Your ideas and opinions are also welcome and encouraged.

Learn more about our values here.

Workday and collaboration

In your workday and private life, many exciting, new, unexpected, and challenging things happen – many for the first time. In the person of your trainer, supervisor, or training manager, you always have a contact person. Talk about things that burden, overwhelm, or hinder you. Together we look for solutions and help you.

If you cannot manage alone or with your environment, sometimes talking to an external specialist helps. For this, we have an independent counselling service available to employees – neutral, anonymous, and free of charge.

Learning and succeeding at the three learning locations

Difficulties at school, in the ÜK, or during practical learning? We are happy to support our apprentices individually with their personal challenges during the apprenticeship. We encourage attending support courses or other offers from your vocational school.

Your training company

The PDGR and its values

"Open psychiatry – by leading experts for the people" is our vision. You are the expert – with your expertise, skills, and above all your personality, you enrich our interprofessional teams.

Our experts share their knowledge for the best possible quality. They are trustworthy, competent, and guided by the latest findings. The PDGR stands as a beacon and is an important support for society.

Your contacts

Flavio Strub

Deputy Head of Infrastructure

Flavio Strub

La Nicca Strasse 17