Head of Building Construction & Facilities

About the job

Arlesheim, where people meet each other.

To complement our administrative management, we are looking for a motivated and responsible individual as of 1 February 2027 or by arrangement

Head of Building Construction & Facilities (80 - 100%)

Your tasks

As a member of the administrative management, you are part of a five-person team directly reporting to the Head of the Municipal Administration. You lead the Building Construction & Facilities department financially, professionally, and organisationally. On the one hand, you are responsible for the employees who take care of building construction with administrative properties, sports facilities, playgrounds, and building permits. On the other hand, you manage those responsible for the swimming pool and caretaking. In the building construction area, you are particularly responsible for the maintenance and further development of properties in the financial and administrative assets as well as for answering complex questions related to building permits. You are in charge of the municipality's central construction projects and participate in specialist committees. Responsibility for all the municipality's sports facilities, especially the swimming pool and the triple sports hall, also falls within your remit. Advising the municipal council and drafting reports, consultations, ordinances, templates, statements, and applications complete your range of duties.

Our expectations

You have completed training as an architect, civil engineer, or a comparable qualification and bring several years of professional experience in the field of building construction & facilities in a leadership role. You are familiar with public administration and its procurement law or are willing to acquire sound knowledge in this regard. Your communication and project management experience as well as your knowledge of political processes complete your profile. Your strengths include interconnected, process-oriented thinking and teamwork. You demonstrate your service orientation towards the public, the municipal council, and within the administrative management. Precise oral and written expression is required.

Our offer

We offer you exciting projects and tasks with a diverse portfolio of properties and facilities as well as contemporary employment conditions. A motivated, collegial, and competent team looks forward to welcoming you.

Ms Katrin Bartels, Head of Municipal Administration, will be happy to provide you with further information at Tel. 061 706 95 56. Please send us your complete application documents including a cover letter electronically.