Region Ostschweiz (AR/AI/TG/GL/GR/SG/SH)
Officer
- 14 October 2026
- 60 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent)
- Region Ostschweiz (AR/AI/TG/GL/GR/SG/SH)
About the job
Move Switzerland with us.
Officer
St. Gallen
01.02.2027 or by arrangement
60-100%
104261
This is what you can look forward to.
At 15 locations in Switzerland, the SBB Fire Brigade - Intervention with 350 dedicated employees and modern emergency vehicles ensures a quick and safe incident management. We are simultaneously railway specialists, train drivers and firefighters and take care of the safety of our customers around the clock. Through your work, you contribute to the railway traffic running smoothly again as quickly as possible. As part of disruption management, the Intervention SBB supports public emergency organisations and is actively involved in incident prevention.
This is what you can achieve.
- In this varied position, you lead the 24-hour duty shift at the intervention site in St. Gallen.
- In the event of incidents, you take responsibility for the fire brigade department or the role of "SBB Incident Commander" and thus are responsible for the entire incident management on site as well as the quickest possible restoration of operations to an orderly state.
- You share responsibility for the protection of people, animals, the environment and railway infrastructure.
- You assess the situation on site, coordinate the operational measures to be taken with the operations centre and ensure the safety of external emergency services and customers. Throughout the entire operation phase, you are responsible for creating the necessary documents, reports, logs, updating the situation picture, etc., and ensure debriefing with the intervention team if required.
- In the event of an incident, you rescue travellers, fight fires, provide oil spill response and technical assistance.
- You regularly train the various workflows and techniques to ensure smooth incident management at all times.
This is what you bring with you.
- Experience as an active fire brigade officer with strong leadership and social skills as well as respiratory protection fitness form the basis for this exciting role.
- You possess physical and mental resilience as well as high performance and commitment and enjoy working in a team.
- Willingness to work shift duty 5 x 24h model on site as well as on-call at weekends. You must be able to reach the site within the specified time of 15 minutes after alarm or be willing to stay overnight at the site. Furthermore, you are willing to take over relief duties at other locations.
- You bring at least 3 years of experience in a similar role at SBB or an external intervention organisation (fire brigade, police, medical services, etc.).
- You have completed basic training (EFZ) or equivalent, hold a category B driving licence and ideally also a C1-118 driving licence.
- You have business fluent oral and written German skills (level C2).
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 H, regional allowance level 0. More about salary and benefits .
This is how you succeed in starting.
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 applications from recruitment agencies for this position.
About the position
Martin Walther, Site Manager St. Gallen Phone +41 512 81 45 81