Head of Operations South
Kanton Graubünden
Samedan
Key information
- Publication date:18 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Unlimited employment
- Place of work:Samedan
Together for Graubünden
The only trilingual canton in Switzerland is economically, culturally, and politically diverse. Graubünden, with 7106 km², is the largest canton in Switzerland and offers a high quality of life with 150 valleys, 615 lakes, 140 holiday resorts, and countless sunny days per year. The Cantonal Administration of Graubünden is as versatile as our landscape. Bring your unique skills and help shape the future of the Cantonal Administration of Graubünden with us.
The only trilingual canton in Switzerland is economically, culturally, and politically diverse. Graubünden, with 7106 km², is the largest canton in Switzerland and offers a high quality of life with 150 valleys, 615 lakes, 140 holiday resorts, and countless sunny days per year. The Cantonal Administration of Graubünden is as versatile as our landscape. Bring your unique skills and help shape the future of the Cantonal Administration of Graubünden with us.
Head of Operations South
Department of Civil Engineering | 80-100% | Samedan
The Department of Civil Engineering is responsible for the planning, construction, maintenance, and operation of the cantonal roads as well as water engineering and slow traffic in Graubünden. We also take care of the operational maintenance of the national roads within the canton. The canton’s road infrastructure includes over 1,450 engineering structures, including bridges at dizzying heights of up to 90 meters and tunnels up to 3 kilometers long. The challenges posed by the nature of our mountain canton in summer and winter make our work demanding and diverse. As a Friendly Work Space certified office, the health and satisfaction of our approximately 480 employees are particularly important to us. For this reason, we are committed to systematic occupational health management (BGM).
We are looking for the Road Maintenance Department in District 3 Samedan from January 1, 2026 or by agreement a Head of Operations South
Your area of responsibility
- Technical and personnel leadership of the southern operational maintenance team
- Planning and execution of the operational maintenance of cantonal roads
- Deployment planning of the three maintenance groups with a total of around 20 employees, vehicles, and equipment in cooperation with your three directly subordinate foremen
- Support of the Construction Department with construction management tasks for the structural maintenance of cantonal roads
- Providing on-call service as an operations manager and participating in avalanche service standby
What we expect from you
- Qualification as a foreman or construction manager
- Several years of experience in road construction or road maintenance
- Leadership experience and entrepreneurial thinking
- Assertiveness and initiative
- High independence and sense of responsibility
- Good IT user skills
- Confident written expression in German
- Italian language skills in spoken and written form, knowledge of Romansh is an advantage
We look forward to receiving your online application and getting to know you.
If you have any questions, Jan Kamm, Head of District 3 Samedan, will be happy to assist you at telephone number 081 257 68 07.
Application deadline: October 12, 2025
