Specialist Overhead Line Technician

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Specialist Overhead Line Technician

Arth-Goldau

01.10.2026 or by arrangement

60-100%

103287

What you can look forward to.

An innovative working environment awaits you, where you can initiate major changes and thus contribute to the success of the SBB. Together with your team colleagues, you will develop solutions for current challenges and implement them as a team. Further training is also not neglected for your individual development. Attractive working conditions are important to us, even with irregular working hours. For this, you can enjoy free ski slopes during the week and organise your leisure time more flexibly. Night and weekend work is additionally compensated – for example, with 16 francs per hour for Sunday work. You also receive time allowances. This means you have more free time than employees without night and weekend shifts. Our other benefits such as child allowances, free 2nd class GA and discounted travel abroad – also for the family – can be found on our website under "Benefits" and more information about the profession can be found here ( Overhead Line Electrician | SBB ). 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.

• Lead your group in carrying out simple maintenance and construction tasks.
• If necessary, implement safety measures according to the safety directive (RTE 20100) in the role of safety officer and assess electrical safety in exceptional events.
• Take on special functions (e.g. work supervisor / system supervisor) and perform assigned, reasonable tasks.
• Report technical defects on systems/machines and actively contribute improvement suggestions.
• Carry out switching work on overhead line and railway power systems, issue switching orders and independently perform earthing work.
• Operate special vehicles for overhead line construction, perform shunting movements and accompany operational service assignments.

What you bring with you.

• Completed 3- to 4-year vocational training, for example as a production mechanic, track builder or overhead line electrician.
• Ideally, you have the qualification as an overhead line fitter and experience with equipment for overhead line construction. If this is not yet the case, we still look forward to your application and will support you in building these skills.
• Willingness to complete training as a safety officer (if necessary also as a safety watchman according to RTE20100) and willingness for on-call duty.
• Very good location-relevant language skills at level C1.
• Driving licence category B.

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 F, regional allowance level No regional allowance. More about salary and benefits .

How to 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. Doing 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

Isa Gündogdu Phone +41 79 557 02 57