Head of Transport

About the job

Hinwil | 80-100% |

This is how you can contribute

• Lead employees in the spare parts warehouse, goods handling platform/freight forwarding, and supply tank facilities both personally and organisationally
• Be responsible for transport scheduling in collaboration with other specialist departments and/or external service providers
• Ensure part-load and full-load transports according to business management principles
• Shape further development as a member of the supply management team
• Ensure and optimise internal logistics in cooperation with stakeholders
• Take responsibility for training road transport specialists

What makes you unique

• Completed technical or commercial apprenticeship with further education and a higher technical school qualification
• Leadership experience as well as professional experience in at least one subordinate area such as spare parts warehouse, goods handling platform/freight forwarding, or tank facilities
• Military knowledge in the field of traffic and transport is advantageous or willingness to acquire this knowledge
• Flexibility, solution-oriented and networked thinking
• Oral and written knowledge of a second official language

In a nutshell

In this role, you lead the transport department. Together with your employees, you ensure reliable transport handling and efficient goods handling, secure spare parts supply, and thus make an important contribution to the operational readiness of the army.

What we offer

• Working for Switzerland We are committed to the success model Switzerland and work for the benefit of the population.
• Lived diversity Thanks to equal opportunities, we develop our skills and bring in different perspectives.
• Healthy at work We support and advise our employees in the area of physical and mental health.

All benefits

Your commitment to security and freedom

The Logistics Base of the Swiss Army (LBA) is there for the troops. It provides all logistical services for the Swiss Army and manages the material, systems, and infrastructures of the Swiss Army with its approximately 3,500 employees and 12,000 militia members. Whether in the workshop or the office, indoors or outdoors: the LBA offers a wide range of workplaces throughout Switzerland. There is something for everyone with us.

The Swiss Army employs over 9,000 people in four military and around 200 civilian professions – at 110 locations throughout Switzerland. The next generation is also taken care of: the Swiss Army trains apprentices in over 30 professions.

Additional information

A position with the Swiss Army makes sense and offers many advantages. Convince yourself at armee.ch/vorteile .
Offers from recruitment agencies will not be considered.

Questions about the position

Sandro Tönz
Head of Supply / Deputy Head ALC-H
+41 58 46 93501