Head of Building Services Administrative Centre (90%)

About the job

The City of Langenthal forms the centre of the Bernese Oberaargau with a catchment area of around 80,000 people and, with approximately 16,300 inhabitants, is the eighth largest municipality in the canton of Bern. The city is constantly developing as an economic, social and cultural centre. The building services of the administrative centre play a special role as part of the city construction office in this context. It takes care of all building services matters of the administrative centre at Jurastrasse 22 in Langenthal, which houses, in addition to the Langenthal city administration, part of the cantonal administration (cantonal police, debt enforcement and bankruptcy office) as well as the Langenthal citizen community.

From 1 November 2026 or by arrangement, we are looking for a convincing personality as Head of Building Services Administrative Centre (90%) This is your job You will take on a varied and responsible role around the operation and infrastructure of our administrative centre and:

• organise and ensure the infrastructural building management including caretaking, cleaning, maintenance of the grounds as well as the interface between users and technical building management
• support the city safety officer as the area safety officer, especially in ensuring the operation of alarm and fire protection systems and in matters of occupational safety
• promote the optimisation of energy efficiency of the infrastructure and operational technical systems
• take on administrative tasks such as creating duty and deployment plans as well as managing central furniture procurement
• run the staff cafeteria and be responsible for the associated accounting
• prepare the annual budget for the service area, use financial resources responsibly and prepare the annual accounts for the canton
• lead, motivate and support your team of around ten cleaning staff and two supervisors of the staff cafeteria
• support internal and external events of the city administration
• ensure efficient and reliable internal mail distribution throughout the administrative centre
• contribute situationally to construction projects, especially in the replacement of technical systems in the administrative centre

We offer you

• Appreciative working environment
• Location-independent working (commuting, home office, hybrid meeting formats)
• Flexible working hours model
• Generous support in the area of further training
• Central location near the station
• Very good social benefits (pension fund, non-occupational accident premium, daily sickness allowance insurance)
• Childcare allowances in addition to statutory family allowances
• 16 weeks maternity leave with full salary entitlement

You bring with you

• You have a professional basic education in the craft-technical field as well as further training as a caretaker with a federal diploma or an equivalent qualification
• You have leadership experience and know how to lead and support employees in a goal-oriented manner
• You work independently, organised and keep an overview even with diverse tasks
• You are characterised by a farsighted, structured and solution-oriented way of working
• You have solid IT user skills, especially in MS Office
• You are flexible and willing to occasionally work irregular hours
• You convince with a strong team, customer and service orientation
• You are open to new topics and areas of responsibility and are willing to familiarise yourself with them

Workplace Administrative Centre
Jurastrasse 22
4901 Langenthal Google Maps All clear?
If not, Volker Wenning-Künne will be happy to assist you. He is the city building master and perhaps soon your new supervisor. Tel. 062 916 22 48. Or visit us at www.langenthal.ch.

We invite you to submit your application documents using the online application form. Apply now