Career Changer: Train Dispatcher 100%

About the job

Do you like taking responsibility and can you set priorities correctly? Do you remain calm in hectic situations and can you react quickly and purposefully? Do you like to keep an overview and want to contribute to a well-functioning public transport system? Then after the 8-month training, you will be in your element with us.

These are your tasks

• You direct and monitor shunting and train movements on the SZU network (S4 and S10).
• In case of operational deviations, you initiate appropriate measures and coordinate
  train traffic and personnel.
• You ensure customer information during normal operations and especially during
  operational disruptions and irregularities.
• You are responsible for vehicle deployment planning.
• You create and coordinate operational orders and processes.

These are your key competencies

• You have completed a 3-year vocational training or the Matura (high school diploma).
• You remain calm in hectic situations and quickly and correctly prioritize the tasks at hand.
• You like to take responsibility and ensure the safety of rail traffic and our passengers with your decisions and actions.
• You have a quick grasp, are strong in communication, and proficient in German, both spoken and written.
• You are a team player, willing to work shifts (24-hour operation), and have good IT skills.
• Your color vision is flawless (no red-green color blindness).

Training details

In just eight months, you qualify as a train dispatcher / train traffic controller and complete the training with theoretical and practical proficiency exams. Together with prospective train traffic controllers from other infrastructure operators (ISB), you complete the modular training. SZU covers the costs and pays you throughout the entire training period. After successful completion, a permanent position as a train dispatcher awaits you at the Zurich Giesshübel location at SZU.

Training start: June 1, 2026

As part of your application process, we warmly invite you to visit our traffic control center after the interview. This way, you get to know your future workplace and potential area of responsibility.

What we offer you as a train dispatcher

You ensure that thousands of people in the Zurich region reach their destinations reliably every day and make an important contribution to climate-friendly, future-oriented mobility. In addition to a meaningful activity, we offer you convincing working and employment conditions, a healthy work-life balance, and attractive additional benefits. And for all employees, there is appreciation and respect.

Do you accept the challenge?

Then we look forward to getting to know you. Please send your complete application documents to bewerbung@szu.ch . And if you have any questions, our Head of Planning & Control (phone 076 261 37 09 *) or our HR specialist Karolina Gajer (phone 076 329 80 22 *) will be happy to answer them.