Landscape Gardener, Bricklayer or Road Builder for the Cable Civil Engineering Sector

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Landscape Gardener, Bricklayer or Road Builder for the Cable Civil Engineering Sector

Rapperswil SG

immediately or by arrangement

60-100%

103267

This is what you can look forward to.

Do you want to work at the foundation of our infrastructure? Start your career in cable civil engineering with us! Do you enjoy working outdoors and like to see what you have achieved? Do you enjoy independent and cross-functional teamwork? A reliable and motivated team supports you and looks forward to working with you! Internal practical and theoretical training guarantees careful and successful induction into your new role. We are an attractive employer and offer many benefits such as extra child allowances, free 2nd class GA and discounted travel abroad – also for the family. All information can be found on our website under Benefits . Interested in learning more about our professions? We look forward to welcoming you from 22 to 24 October 2026 at our SBB Career Worlds Café at Zurich main station. All information can be found at sbb.ch/berufsweltencafe .

This is what you can achieve.

• Your main task as a cable civil engineering technician is the independent planning, installation and monitoring of cable routes and cable ducts, as well as carrying out cable pulls of all railway technical cables
• You independently carry out repairs on manhole covers and renovation work on cable ducts, as well as fault rectifications on cable infrastructures and ensure their proper functioning again. You prepare the work planning, report the completed work and record working hours and expenses
• Furthermore, you operate instructed machines, devices and tools, provide corresponding instructions and work as a safety officer to ensure professional and safe execution of tasks.
• As a technician, you prepare work sites and provide materials for the assigned tasks or construction sites, thereby also ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.
• You take on the professional leadership of employees and third parties at the various work sites.
• The role may also include night shifts and weekend work as well as special deployments in case of faults and winter service.

This is what you bring with you.

• Your high sense of responsibility and safety awareness enable you to familiarise yourself well and thoroughly with your new role in the SBB environment. You enjoy working outdoors in all seasons.
• Increased resilience, both physically and mentally.
• A vocational qualification (EFZ) as a landscape gardener or bricklayer / road builder is required. Additionally, you are willing to complete the foreman school.
• To perform the role, we require successful completion of internal training as a safety officer (safety guard if necessary). Night shifts or occasional weekend shifts (not regularly), fault cases and winter service are compensated separately with allowances in the form of time and money.
• Your place of residence is near your workplace.
• You hold a category B driving licence (experience with manual transmission and category BE is an advantage). Your German language skills are at least at level A2.

Your salary and benefits.

We have a fair and progressive salary system and actively promote pay equality. Therefore, further and detailed information about the salary system at SBB is transparently available. This position is at requirement level E, regional allowance level 1. More about salary and benefits .

This is how you succeed in starting.

Your desire to move Switzerland with us is our greatest motivation. Therefore, we waive a cover letter for this position. If you still want to share your motivation with us, you can still do so in our application tool. Achieving great things is easier on a first-name basis. This starts with your application.

We do not accept applications from recruitment agencies for this position.

About the position

Thomas Werle, pool recruiter Phone +41 79 585 67 18 Markus Wunderlin, team leader Phone +41 79 619 19 11