Technician for External Safety Systems, Production Mechanic, Polymechanic, Locksmith

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Technician for External Safety Systems, Production Mechanic, Polymechanic, Locksmith

Zurich

immediately or by arrangement

60-100%

102013

What you can look forward to.

As a technician for safety systems in the external area, you are responsible for the construction, maintenance and servicing of the diverse safety systems such as points, level crossing systems, signals or track vacancy detection systems. In addition, you diagnose faults and independently carry out demanding coarse mechanical work in the external area of the safety systems. We are seeking support at these locations in the German-speaking part of Switzerland: Sargans and Lucerne. Attractive working conditions are important to us, even with irregular working hours. In return, you can enjoy empty swimming pools during the week and arrange your leisure time more flexibly. Night and weekend work is additionally compensated – for example, with 16 francs per hour for Sunday work. You also benefit from time allowances. This means you have more free time than employees without night and weekend shifts. Our other benefits such as child allowances, free 2nd class GA and discounted travel abroad – also for the family – can be found on our website under « Benefits ». Further insights into the profession as an external safety system technician can be found in the SBB career worlds or directly here: Technician for External Safety Systems | SBB Interested in learning more about our professions? We look forward to welcoming you from 22 to 24 October 2026 at our SBB Career Worlds Café at Zurich main station. All information can be found at sbb.ch/berufsweltencafe .

What you can achieve.

• You independently carry out work in the assembly/disassembly of systems according to the project. Maintenance activities on the operational external safety systems (points, signals, track vacancy detection systems, train control, ETCS, point heating) also belong to your area of responsibility.
• You independently perform fault clearance of railway systems within the on-call organisation.
• You report the work performed using the latest systems and programmes and assist with updating the documents.

What you bring with you.

• Willingness for on-call duty, night work and weekend work as well as safety training to become a safety officer RTE 20100.
• You must have completed a recognised apprenticeship EFZ as a production mechanic, locksmith, polymechanic or in a similar manual trade.
• Willingness to complete the one-year part-time internal training to become a technician for external safety systems. SBB fully covers the time and costs for this.
• A valid category B driving licence as well as very good German language skills in spoken and written form at least at B2 level are required.

Your salary and benefits.

We have a fair and progressive salary system and actively promote pay equality. Therefore, further and detailed information about the salary system at SBB is transparently available. This position is at requirement level D, regional allowance level 2. More about salary and benefits .

How to succeed in starting.

Your desire to move Switzerland with us is our greatest motivation. Therefore, we waive a cover letter for this position. If you still want to share your motivation with us, you can still do so in our application tool. Achieving great things is easier on a first-name basis. This starts already with your application.

We do not accept applications from recruitment agencies for this position.

About the position

Sidney Aeschbacher, Regional Representative Pool Recruitment Central Phone 051 285 19 90 Thomas Werle, Regional Representative Pool Recruitment East Phone 051 285 24 43