Quality & Safety Manager - Railway Track Works

About the job

Scheuchzer SA is a company with 540 employees specialising in mechanised maintenance of railway tracks. Since 1917, it has been providing its services to the most demanding rail networks in Switzerland and Europe. By bringing together within the same company various aspects such as design, construction, manufacturing, operation, and maintenance of machines, Scheuchzer SA is perfectly equipped to meet its clients' requirements.

To strengthen our team, we are looking for a:

Quality & Safety Manager - Railway Track Works

As part of the development of our "Railway Track Works" department, we are reinforcing quality and safety management within the profit centre. The role reports directly to the Director and works in functional coordination with the central IMS for quality-related topics and with central HSS for health and safety topics. It contributes to developing quality management, strengthening prevention and safety culture, and ensuring systematic monitoring of deviations, risks, and improvement measures.

Your main tasks:

Quality Management

• Develop and ensure the operation of quality management within Railway Track Works as process owner.
• Define and evolve, with the responsible parties, the requirements, standards, and processes related to quality.
• Plan, coordinate, and support quality controls and audits on sites.
• Ensure systematic handling of non-conformities (NCR) and quality deviations.
• Coordinate root cause analyses, follow up on corrective and preventive measures, and verify their effectiveness.
• Analyse recurring errors and systemic weaknesses to identify improvement needs.
• Participate in handling customer complaints related to quality.
• Ensure complete and traceable documentation serving as a basis for justifications and claims.
• Coordinate feedback, lessons learned, and continuous improvement in quality matters.
• Contribute to coordinating the Railway Track Works process and the IMS in collaboration with the Director and central IMS.

Occupational Health and Safety

• Strengthen prevention and develop a sustainable safety culture within the profit centre.
• Conduct and support safety visits, inspections, and audits on sites.
• Identify, assess, and monitor risks and deviations related to safety.
• Analyse accidents, near-misses, and safety-related events and coordinate resulting measures.
• Support operational managers in implementing safety requirements and measures.
• Participate in defining and controlling safety devices on sites.
• Ensure, together with the line management, compliance with applicable working time and rest regulations.
• Raise awareness and advise employees and managers on safety-related topics.
• In case of critical or imminent risk, intervene, escalate the situation, and if necessary, stop the work.

Your profile

• Holder of an STPS specialist certificate or equivalent training.
• Experience in quality management, process approach, and continuous improvement principles.
• Good understanding of our sites, processes, and risks related to railway works.
• Experience or knowledge in occupational health and safety.
• Ability to analyse deviations, risks, and events in a structured and factual manner.
• Rigorous, autonomous, and solution-oriented working method.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with different stakeholders.
• Clear and constructive communication, including in demanding situations.
• Ability to defend quality and safety requirements with pragmatism and consistency.
• Willingness to concretely support the implementation of improvements and to assume necessary escalations.

Your contribution

In this role, you will directly contribute to sustainably improving the quality of our services, reducing recurring errors and risks, preventing accidents, and strengthening a shared culture of quality and safety within Railway Track Works.