Agricultural Machinery Mechanic EFZ 100%

About the job

Start date:

1 December 2026 or by arrangement

Workplace:

Gampelen

The Witzwil Correctional Facility enforces sentences and measures on 184 adult men in open imprisonment as well as in administrative detention under immigration law. The inmates are guided and supported in various professions in agriculture, trade, and supply according to work-educational principles. Around 140 employees work consistently towards the goal of socialisation and reducing recidivism of the prisoners in the penal system. Production goals and enforcement goals do not compete but complement each other.

Your tasks

As a work supervisor, you primarily maintain and repair the machines and support the other specialist areas of our mechanical workshops. In the absence of our workshop manager, you take over the leadership in the agricultural machinery department. At your workplace, you lead and support a group of inmates according to work-educational principles. You work interdisciplinarily with other work supervisors and enforcement officers.

Your profile

You have training as an agricultural machinery mechanic or training in a related profession with a federal certificate of competence and ideally have several years of professional experience. Working with inmates, including those from other cultural backgrounds, is both a challenge and an incentive for you. As a resilient, stable, and open-to-criticism personality, you keep a cool head even in delicate situations. You enjoy working in a team and are interested and open to new things. You are comfortable regularly applying IT skills (Office) and guiding inmates at work also in French.

We offer you

You can expect a challenging and exciting role in one of the largest agricultural enterprises in Switzerland with a large, diverse, and modern machinery fleet. As a "bridge to freedom," your work makes a significant contribution to the reintegration of inmates into society. You will acquire the necessary enforcement knowledge through a part-time training or further education at the Swiss Competence Centre for the Penal System. Your workplace is located in a unique natural landscape.

Contact

We look forward to receiving your application. Please send your application documents online by 17 September 2026. For further information, please contact Ulrich Schafroth, Head of Operations, or Ramon Balmer, Specialist in Agricultural Machinery, Tel. +41 31 635 65 11.

About the Office for Penal Enforcement

The Office for Penal Enforcement (AJV) employs around 1000 staff within the Security Directorate of the Canton of Bern (SID) and is responsible for open and closed penal and measure enforcement for adults and juveniles. To fulfil this task, the office has at its disposal four concordat correctional facilities, four regional prisons, the surveillance station at Inselspital, the detention control centre, as well as probation and enforcement services.

https://www.ajv.sid.be.ch/de/start.html