Head of Overhead Line 80–100%

About the job

Are you familiar with the legal regulations, standards and maintenance guidelines for overhead line structures? Are you a solution-oriented organisational talent with proven leadership experience, high social competence and a strong sense of safety and responsibility? Are you flexible, physically fit and resilient? Do you enjoy working independently as well as in a team and are you looking for diverse challenges in a varied environment?

In this key role, you actively shape the future of SZU's overhead line infrastructure and make a significant contribution to safe and reliable railway operations.

These are your tasks

• You lead the overhead line team both personally and professionally and take on the associated leadership, organisational and administrative tasks. In addition, you support your team as needed in on-call duty and night work.
• You continuously develop the overhead line team, drive digitalisation forward and act as an expert and overhead line system manager for specialist questions within SZU.
• You are responsible for the quality, availability, operational safety and reliability of our overhead line systems as well as the railway power supply.
• In close cooperation with operations planning, train service, specialist departments, asset and project management and external partners, you translate operational requirements into sustainable and economical technical solutions.
• You assess the condition of the system, initiate immediate measures if necessary and ensure the timely rectification and reporting of safety-relevant defects.
• You plan, coordinate and monitor maintenance work on the overhead line systems, analyse the results and derive optimisation measures and the corresponding reporting.
• You support the Head of Infrastructure Specialist Services in budget planning and budget management, contribute to the further development of fault management and bring your expertise to third-party construction projects.
• You take on the execution project management for maintenance measures and single-discipline projects in the overhead line area, are responsible for their acceptance and ensure compliance with all legal, normative and safety-relevant requirements.

These are your key competencies

• You have a completed degree (FH) in electrical engineering or a comparable technical field.
• You bring solid practical experience in railway technology and have proven knowledge in the construction and maintenance of overhead line systems.
• You meet the requirements as an overhead line expert and ideally have the corresponding certification.
• You bring leadership experience in a technical operations organisation or in managing demanding technical projects.
• You convince with strong communication skills, decisiveness and assertiveness and enjoy working with various internal and external stakeholders.
• You have very good German language skills in spoken and written form, good IT user skills and a category B driving licence.

What we offer you as Head of Overhead Line

You work in the heart of Zurich and can tackle diverse challenges, take responsibility and make a difference in a future-oriented railway company. In addition to convincing working and employment conditions, you will receive attractive additional benefits with us. There is also appreciation and respect for all employees.

Do you accept the challenge?

Then we look forward to getting to know you. Simply upload your complete application documents via the button below. If you have any questions, our Head of Maintenance Tobias Strasser ( 079 411 33 69 *) and our HR specialist Karolina Gajer (phone 076 329 80 22 *) will be happy to answer them.