Painting Team Leader 100%

About the job

The Villa Erica Foundation supports around 100 young people and adults with behavioural difficulties and/or mental impairments in their social, educational and professional development, enabling them to lead an independent and self-responsible life. Our range of services includes the three areas of school, vocational training & work, and housing. The painting workshop is part of the vocational training and work area.

We are looking for a professionally skilled and committed individual from 1 May 2027or by arrangement as

Painting Team Leader 100%

Creating perspectives through craftsmanship. As the team leader of the painting workshop, you combine professional craftsmanship with a meaningful mission: you lead the painting workshop and create a practical training and development space for learners with mental impairments. In doing so, you bring training quality, customer requirements and economic efficiency into a sustainable balance.

Your task: balancing training, leadership and economic efficiency

• You bear overall responsibility for the professional, personnel, organisational and economic management of the painting workshop.
• You ensure practical and individual training of learners with mental impairments in accordance with the educational mandate and consistently support their professional and personal development.
• You lead and develop the staff of the painting workshop and ensure a respectful, open team and communication culture.
• You plan, coordinate and monitor internal and external painting orders with regard to quality, deadlines, costs and resource use.
• You are responsible for customer care, acquisition, calculation and order administration from quotation to invoicing.
• You ensure budget compliance, occupational safety, quality and preservation of operating resources and develop processes, services and the painting workshop offering together with the department management.

What you bring with you

• Completed training as a painter EFZ and several years of professional experience, as well as a completed vocational trainer course.
• Project management in painting with a federal specialist certificate or comparable/higher training in the painting trade; master painter is an advantage.
• Several years of experience in leadership, training and support of learners.
• Enjoyment and confidence in working with young people with mental impairments as well as the ability to provide orientation, structure and individual development opportunities.
• A clear, appreciative and pedagogically shaped attitude as well as the ability to combine individual support with the requirements of a professional customer business.
• Entrepreneurial and networked thinking, organisational talent as well as a structured, independent and reliable working style.
• Leadership competence, strong social and communication skills as well as exemplary conduct regarding collaboration and craftsmanship quality.
• Confident use of Microsoft 365; experience with ABACUS is an advantage.
• Very good German language skills in spoken and written form as well as a category B driving licence.

Our claim: Learners should develop professionally and personally, gain stability and build career prospects. A professionally and economically managed painting workshop creates the real and sustainable learning space for this.

What to expect from us

• Meaningful leadership role with a focus on vocational training and the development of young people
• Overall responsibility and scope for shaping the management and further development of the painting workshop
• Diverse field of work combining pedagogical mission, professional painting craftsmanship and economic responsibility
• Internal training and joint activities
• Theme-related project weeks with the foundation’s learners
• At least 6 weeks’ holiday
• Discounted lunch in the in-house catering operation
• Public transport directly in front of the building

Ready to shape the future with your craft? Then we look forward to your application – and to shaping the daily life of our learners together with you! Please send us your complete,
electronic online application via https://stiftungvillaerica.ch/online-bewerbung/

Contact
Villa Erica Foundation, Raphael Arnold, Head of Vocational Training & Work, Bahnhofstrasse 20, 6244 Nebikon. For telephone enquiries: direct tel. 062 836 62 25.

Further information about the foundation can be found here:
www.stiftungvillaerica.ch and www.stiftungvillaerica-ausbildung.ch