Herisau
Technical Specialist Fleet Management Technology
- 19 October 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent)
- Herisau
About the job
80-100%
What to expect
- Technical responsibility and contact person for main assemblies, systems or rolling stock
- Participation in projects and subprojects
- Definition of maintenance specifications, technical changes as well as further development of rolling stock and data maintenance
- Optimisation of main assemblies and maintenance measures through data analysis and supplier contact
- Handling technical issues and deriving improvement and change measures to increase vehicle reliability and availability
What you bring
- Higher technical education at HF, FH or university level in mechanical engineering or rail vehicle technology
- Knowledge of wheel-rail interaction is an advantage
- Experience in project management
- Independent, structured as well as goal- and result-oriented working style
- Good German skills in spoken and written form, English skills desirable
- Good SAP knowledge
What we offer
SOB maintains a function-related salary system that ensures internal pay equity.
With an employment level of at least 40%, you travel free of charge on public transport in 2nd class. Your relatives benefit from discounts when purchasing a GA. Not only that: after the first year of employment, we offer an attractive deal in Europe with the FIP (international discount card for railway staff) with discounts abroad.
At SOB, you work 41 hours per week with a 100% workload. You receive at least five weeks of holiday per year. With the bandwidth model, you can take additional days off.
Would you like more than five weeks of holiday? We offer the possibility of the bandwidth model. For 2% of your annual salary, you receive five additional days off credited, for 4% ten additional days off credited. The same applies in reverse: you can waive days off and receive more salary instead.
Do public holidays fall on a weekend? At SOB, these days are credited to you.
At SOB, you have the option to work from home.
We maintain a family-like atmosphere among each other. This also includes a company-wide informal "du" culture. We are proud of our values of fairness, reliability, appreciation, transparency and willingness to learn.
We cover 60% of the contributions to the pension fund, your share is 40%.
The health of our employees is our top priority. We promote physical and mental health in the workplace with various measures.
Sick pay and accident pay amount to 100% in the first calendar year. From the second calendar year, sick pay is 90% and accident pay is 80%.
Interested?
We look forward to receiving your complete application.
For further information, please contact:
Anton Huser
Head of Fleet Management Technology
+41 58 580 76 97
Menaka Nirozan
HR Area Manager
+41 58 580 73 02
Swiss Südostbahn AG
Bahnhofplatz 1a | 9001 St. Gallen
www.sob.ch