Production Team Leader, Shunting and Special Vehicles Division

Move Switzerland with us.

Production Team Leader, Shunting and Special Vehicles Division

Biel/Bienne

immediately or by arrangement

60-100%

104140

What you can look forward to.

Are you looking for a new, genuine challenge in a dynamic environment? Would you like to take on responsibility and actively shape the future of maintenance? Then you are exactly right with us. Every day, you contribute to securing the stability of Swiss infrastructure – in a technologically diverse environment that thrives on innovation and hands-on technology. Together with your team for shunting and special vehicles, you develop pragmatic solutions for current challenges and implement them vigorously. Your efforts have visible impact: safe and efficient operational processes, satisfied employees and customers, and a strong network across departmental boundaries. We specifically support your development: a wide range of internal training opportunities supports your personal career at SBB. In addition, we offer attractive working conditions, including a free 2nd class GA and discounted foreign travel – also for your family. On our website, you will find more information about our benefits and how we make work worthwhile with us. Interested in learning more about our professions? We look forward to welcoming you from 22 to 24 October 2026 at our SBB Career Worlds Café at Zurich main station. All information can be found at sbb.ch/berufsweltencafe .

What you can achieve.

• You lead a high-performing, professionally skilled maintenance team (approx. 15 people) and shape a technically demanding, varied working environment where reliability and efficiency come together.
• Together with your team, you ensure that our shunting and special vehicles and their components remain safe, high-quality, and operational. You take on the professional and personnel responsibility and are the driving force for smooth processes.
• You actively further develop processes: optimisation of workflows, optimisation of collaboration at interfaces with other areas, and introduction of pragmatic improvements are part of your daily actions.
• You promote the professional development of your employees, systematically build up competencies, and plan succession proactively – thus securing know-how and team strength in the long term.
• You are responsible for productivity and costs and bring economic thinking into operational management without losing sight of quality and safety.

What you bring with you.

• You are an independent, resilient leader with high initiative, flexibility, and customer-oriented action.
• Structured, systematic working style, pronounced social skills, good communication behaviour, and assertiveness.
• Strong quality awareness and high customer orientation.
• You bring several years of professional and leadership experience in a comparable position as well as railway know-how, which are advantageous.
• A completed vocational training EFZ (mechanical or electrical) plus further training as a technician HF / industrial foreman or similar, as well as very good German skills (C1) and good to very good (min. B1) French skills are prerequisites for this position.

Your salary and benefits.

We have a fair and progressive salary system and actively promote pay equality. Therefore, further and detailed information about the salary system at SBB is transparently available. This position is at requirement level I, regional allowance level 0. More about salary and benefits .

How to succeed in your start.

Your desire to move Switzerland with us is our greatest motivation. Therefore, we waive a cover letter for this position. If you still want to share your motivation with us, you can still do so in our application tool. Achieving great things is easier on a first-name basis. This starts already with your application.

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

About the position

Gabriela Fischer, Head of Production Phone +41 78 604 62 04