Caretaker with Craftsmanship Skills 100 %

About the job

Caretaker with Craftsmanship Skills 100 %

You are hands-on, think ahead and keep an overview? Then you are a perfect fit for us. With your know-how, commitment and hands-on mentality, you ensure the smooth operation of our FM services and satisfied users. You take responsibility, find pragmatic solutions and actively tackle tasks. For us, team spirit, reliability and also a good dose of humour in everyday life count.

Department: Finance & Services

Start of work: by arrangement, application deadline until 12 June 2026

• Ensuring the trouble-free operation of properties and technical systems
• Planning, organising and supervising the cleaning and maintenance of buildings, rooms and outdoor areas
• Carrying out and coordinating minor repairs as well as rectifying faults and damages
• Quality assurance of external cleaning services as well as coordination and control of external service providers
• Contact person for users: receiving, processing and providing feedback on concerns
• Support with moves as well as with the care and accompaniment of events also outside regular working hours
• Ensuring compliance with safety, environmental and labour regulations
• Shifts in early and late duty, on Saturdays as well as on-call and winter service
• You have completed a craft apprenticeship and ideally have some experience in a similar role
• With your craftsmanship skills and technical understanding, you like to get stuck in and find pragmatic solutions
• You are comfortable using common IT tools
• You convince with your pronounced service orientation and address different contacts with your professional manners
• You are a team player and communicate openly, clearly and on an equal footing
• You have good German language skills in spoken and written form (at least level C); Swiss German is an advantage

The ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, with over 14,000 students and over 11,000 continuing education participants as well as around 3,700 employees, is one of the largest multi-disciplinary universities of applied sciences in Switzerland.

Our Facility Management, with over 80 employees, ensures reliable FM services at the three ZHAW locations. It provides the spatial infrastructure with around seventy buildings and develops it proactively.

ZHAW is committed to mixed-gender and diverse teams to promote equality, diversity and innovation. To increase the proportion of women in leadership positions, applications from women are particularly welcome.

We offer university-appropriate working and employment conditions and actively promote the personnel development of our employees and managers. A detailed description of the benefits can be found on the "Working at ZHAW" website. Here are the key points:

Xenia Binner

Recruiting Manager