Head of Maintenance Energy Contracting and District Heating

Key information

  • Publication date:15 November 2025
  • Workload:100%
  • Contract type:Unlimited employment
  • Place of work:Winterthur

Job summary

Join Stadtwerk Winterthur, a reliable provider of essential services. Enjoy a supportive work environment and great benefits.

Tasks

  • Lead a team of ten in energy contracting and district heating maintenance.
  • Support customers with service needs and monitor budgets.
  • Contribute expertise to new construction and renovation projects.

Skills

  • Higher vocational training in heating/sanitary or electrical fields required.
  • Strong leadership and team management experience needed.
  • Excellent IT skills, including MS Office and SAP proficiency.

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Customer-oriented, reliable, and quality-conscious: We owe our success to these strengths. As a cross-utility company, we take care of all customer concerns regarding electricity, telecommunications, gas, water, district heating, waste incineration, wastewater treatment, and energy contracting – all in accordance with the promise "We offer comfort." Stadtwerk Winterthur offers attractive employment conditions and challenging tasks to its employees.

Your Tasks

Make your mark as the new Head of Maintenance Energy Contracting and District Heating. In doing so, you make a valuable contribution to ecological sustainability. You can expect a motivated team and an exciting environment with interesting maintenance tasks for a diverse and continuously growing plant portfolio. Your tasks include: 
  • You are responsible for the personnel and professional leadership and development of the ten employees of the entire maintenance team. You provide technical coaching to the employees in the entire maintenance area.
  • You maintain customer contact and support customers with inquiries, service work, or malfunctions (2nd level support).
  • Your further tasks include monitoring the maintenance and energy budget, budgeting, and reporting tasks.
  • In the planning and implementation of new construction and renovation projects, you contribute your expertise from the maintenance perspective in a goal-oriented manner.
  • On-call duty 

Your Profile

  • Advanced technical training in heating/sanitary, electrical, maintenance, or related fields
  • Many years of experience in leading maintenance teams
  • Proven experience in the maintenance of large plants
  • You are an entrepreneurially minded individual with high professional competence, aligning your results with quality, economic efficiency, and sustainability.
  • You possess conceptual thinking as well as a strong customer and service orientation and teamwork skills. Your negotiation skills and communication strengths distinguish you.
  • Very high IT affinity, good user knowledge of MS Office and SAP

What We Offer

  • An exciting challenge in an interesting environment
  • A collegial and helpful team
  • 5 weeks of vacation, an additional week from age 55
  • Versatile training opportunities
  • Vacation purchase possible with full-time employment

Contact

Your questions about the position will be gladly answered by Stefan Treudler, Head of Energy Contracting/District Heating, phone +41 (0)52 267 63 77.
Learn more? https://stadt.winterthur.ch/

We look forward to your online application.   This position is filled exclusively through direct applications.

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