Apprenticeship System Catering Practitioner EBA (d/w/m)
Basel
Key information
- Publication date:19 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Basel
Job summary
Join us at SV Group, a leading hospitality company, and explore culinary delights. This is a fantastic chance to grow in a supportive team environment.
Tasks
- Serve guests with a smile, from appetizers to desserts.
- Prepare fresh dishes while ensuring hygiene and safety standards.
- Execute marketing activities like promotions and presentations.
Skills
- Open to teamwork and eager to develop skills with people.
- Strong communication skills in English or another language.
- Organizational talent to handle busy situations effectively.
Is this helpful?
We are passionate hosts – come to us and discover the world of enjoyment. You will take care of our guests with a smile, prepare small, fresh dishes yourself, and carry out special sales activities.
Start your apprenticeship with us on August 1st, because we offer you the right amount of variety and are the right success recipe for your future.
#hitthebutton - we look forward to getting to know you – upload your application documents.
- Care and service of our guests from A like Apéro to Z like Znüni
- Take responsibility and act as a host and team player
- Implement marketing measures such as presentations of offers
- Receive and forward complaints
- Focus on food, including preparing it yourself and adhering to hygiene and safety regulations
- Openness to teamwork and willingness to make a difference together with others
- Enjoy contact with people and a desire to develop yourself
- Resilience to keep a cool head in hectic situations
- Good oral and written skills in English or a second national language (depending on the canton)
- Organizational talent
This awaits you
- Events: Apprenticeship kickoff, Chiefs for a Week, special SV specialist courses, apprenticeship graduation ceremony
- Salary: 1st year CHF 1,020, 2nd year CHF 1,300
- Working days: 42-hour week (mostly Mon - Fri in an SV staff restaurant)
- 13th month salary
- Financial contribution to school material costs
- Vacation: 6 weeks
- Free, fresh, and healthy staff meals
- Opportunity to subsequently complete the EFZ qualification
- More benefits can be found on our website
Have we sparked your interest?
Show us your talent and upload your documents:
- Resume
- Secondary school certificates
- Motivation letter
- If available: aptitude tests such as Multicheck or Stellwerktest, trial reports, diplomas
- Projects: Participation in the project week "Chiefs for a week"
- Development: SV Young Talents Academy with special specialist courses per apprenticeship and year
- Feasting: Free, fresh, and healthy staff meals as well as discounted meals in our restaurants
- Discounts: Employee rates in SV-managed hotels in Switzerland and Germany
- Bonus: Apprentices recruit apprentices program
- Advantages: 6 weeks vacation, 42-hour week (mostly Monday to Friday in an SV staff restaurant)
- Career: Promising future prospects in various areas of our company
- Additional benefits: Various discounts (e.g., at Sunrise, Reka, Migrol, Fleurop, collective insurance CSS/Helsana)
Monika, Business Partner HR Young Talents
The SV Group is a leading gastronomy and hotel management group based in Dübendorf near Zurich. The group operates in several business areas: restaurants for companies and schools, hotels with own brands as well as other renowned brands as franchisee, public restaurants with innovative concepts, as well as gastronomic delivery service and catering. The SV Group employs around 5,800 people, of which 4,000 are in Switzerland.
The SV Group traces back to the non-profit organization "Schweizer Verband Soldatenwohl" founded in 1914. Else Züblin-Spiller established soldiers' lounges nationwide and served balanced and affordable meals there. The founder's idealistic values are continued today by the SV Foundation. This charitable foundation is the majority shareholder of the SV Group and uses its funds for projects in the field of healthy nutrition and for the common good.
At the Novartis Campus in Basel, our host team with 120 employees pampers around 2,000 guests daily. The "foodtower" including "coffee- al forno" offers space for 1,500 guests with its various restaurants. There are also two kiosks ("Pic'n Go" & "386"), two coffee bars, and two serviced restaurants. In the "Bistro 5" restaurant and the associated guest rooms "au Ciel" we spoil our guests with à la carte creations and market-fresh cuisine. In the "Visitor Café" as well as in the coffee bar "BaRguette" we offer our guests fine coffees and snacks from our in-house production. The operation has its own patisserie, which supplies not only the campus but also a variety of other SV Group-managed operations daily. Through the in-house catering offer, it is possible to order snacks and drinks for meetings or apéros. Regular company events as well as special occasions for up to 3,000 people are held. Working hours from Monday to Friday between 06:00-17:00, depending on the duty roster. Special and evening shifts depending on workload.
