Amelia Rodrigues

Operational planning specialist, creative lover of detail and committed team player.

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Operational planning specialist: Making competent decisions.

Train crew, shunters and cleaners count on you to assign and plan their work precisely. You master disruption and major events, keep calm and ensure optimal customer solutions are provided.

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Daniel Camenisch

Operational planning specialist, talented and successful bowler and creator of 3D wooden board games.

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Your important role.

You take on responsible and varied tasks in the Traffic Control Centre, and in Planning, Management and Allocation of staff and rolling stock. By adapting plans to unforeseen occurrences and major events, you ensure that operations run smoothly. You develop solutions and ensure customer information. And you focus on our customers so that they can get to their destination safely and on time.

Your four areas of work.

Your work takes place in four different locations where you carry out different jobs, making your working days extremely varied:

In Planning, you create annual shift plans for the shunters, locomotive crew, customer-facing staff and train cleaning teams.
You adapt staff shift plans and rolling stock schedules for planned events or engineering work in Management.
In Allocation, you create the work, holiday and Friday shift schedules for train crew and your colleagues who work in shunting and in cleaning.
The Traffic Control Center monitors railway operations 24 hours a day. Your role is to react to abnormal operations immediately, take decisions and inform customers in a professional manner.

Unique skills.

As an operational planning specialist, you make decisions confidently and independently. You take responsibility for yourself and for your colleagues. In your work, you bear in mind our customers, your team and everything as a whole. You communicate openly and transparently and have the empathy required to give a positive turn to conflicts and negotiations.

The training as an operational planning specialist lasts ten months and takes place in German-speaking Switzerland. During training, you are employed by SBB and are remunerated.

In your first month, you will be taught important basic knowledge and rail know-how. You conclude this module with a theory test.

Following this, you spend nine months rotating between four different domains: Planning, Management, Allocation and the Traffic Control Center. In the course of these nine months, you learn basic work procedures and how things connect hands-on, and you apply this knowledge. You complete each rotation position during the secondary training with a theoretical examination. Following an individual consolidation phase, you are ready to work as an operational planning specialist.

For budding operational planning specialists, joined-up and analytical thinking is important. Your strengths must also include working towards objectives and teamwork.

You will also meet the following requirements:

You have completed a 3-year vocational apprenticeship or Matura and have at least 5 years of professional experience. Completed further training in the last 5 years rounds off your profile.
Thanks to your analytical and networked thinking, you solve complex tasks correctly and make independent decisions.
As a team player, you communicate openly and have the necessary empathy to shape negotiations positively.
For this demanding task, you are mentally resilient and enjoy working irregular hours in shifts (7x24h).
You are business fluent in German, both orally and in writing (C2 level) and have a good knowledge of (at least) the German language. B1) in a second national language.

As an operational planning specialist, you have various opportunities for personal development. While following a career path with a given field, you can also pursue a change of place of work.

We support and promote the personal work-life balance of our employees. After training, you have the opportunity to work part-time.

Remuneration system.

We have a fair and progressive remuneration system. We reward individual performance, take the nature of the job market into account and create transparency. We have also been awarded the We Pay Fair label.

Your salary during and after training.

Your gross monthly salary including the thirteen month's pay depends on age, experience and location. The charts show the salary including the regional supplement.

Your salary during training.

At the age of 20, the training salary is CHF 4620 per month.
At the age of 30, the training salary is CHF 4855 per month.
At the age of 40, the training salary is CHF 5246 per month.
From the age of 45, the training salary is CHF 5404 per month.

Your salary after training.

At the age of 20, the salary is between CHF 5254-5724 per month.
At the age of 30, the salary is between CHF 5450-5920 per month.
At the age of 40, the salary is between CHF 5842-6312 per month.
From the age of 45, the salary is between CHF 6037-6507 per month.

Extra pay.

The total of the allowances varies depending on the shift plan (Hourly rate for night work: CHF 6 / hourly Sunday rate: CHF 16)
Child benefit: CHF 320 for the first child (CHF 205 for each additional child) and other SBB benefits

Individual salaries will be fixed as part of the employment contract following our remuneration system which forms part of the collective agreement.

Special offers for SBB employees.

Our employees enjoy attractive discounts from companies throughout Switzerland. These include insurance policies, language courses and electronic devices.

GA Travelcard.

Our employees receive a 2nd class GA Travelcard – the eligibility criteria are a 50-per cent level of employment and a term of employment of over one year. Our staff also benefit from discounted rail journeys abroad.