Automation mechanic, Federal VET Diploma
Interested in technology that really makes a difference? As an automation mechanic, you’ll bring machines to life, keep our systems running and ensure that everything at Swiss Post runs smoothly.
You make machines tick properly.
This is where testing and controlling are carried out and everything gets moving. As an automation mechanic, you’re in the thick of the action: checking machines, managing systems and ensuring everything runs smoothly. If you want to know how the automation of tomorrow will work and what skills you need for it, keep on scrolling. The whole exciting day-to-day routine awaits you!
To ensure you get off to a good start with us, you should ideally have the following skills and experience:
Before you get started, you’ll need certain skills and experience to help you to get the job done. This also means that you have completed middle secondary school with good grades.
You are good with your hands.
You like to be hands-on and practical, working with nuts and bolts and understanding how everything works. You have a knack for getting machines and systems up and running.
You’re interested in numbers and data.
When others are already groaning at the arithmetic, you stay cool. You love physics, think logically, find mistakes quickly and create order from chaos.
Technology is in your blood.
You want to know what makes machines tick and how electronics work. With curiosity and brains, you find out how everything fits together and works.
Training and vocational school:
Your apprenticeship lasts three years. In the first year, you’ll learn the basics of manufacturing technology at our partner company login Berufsbildung AG, and then you’ll head to the Swiss Post centers: you’ll work directly on systems, machines and electronic controllers, take on tasks and manage small jobs or projects by yourself or with the support of professionals. At school, you’ll acquire theoretical know-how and put it into practice – enabling you to cope with any machine. After three years, you’ll be ready to start your career. The first year will be spent in Olten, Zurich-Altstetten or Yverdon, before heading off to placements in Eclépens, Härkingen or Zurich-Mülligen in the second and third years.
And after your apprenticeship?
After your apprenticeship, there are many ways to further your education, with or without a vocational school-leaving certificate:
Diploma
You can obtain a diploma or higher vocational qualification, such as the automation specialist diploma or the diploma as an industrial foreman.
Higher technical school
For example, higher technical school qualification as IT technician so that you can delve even deeper into exciting tasks.
Bachelor or Master
In electrical engineering or mechatronics if you’re interested in a degree and want to pursue a career.
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Vocational training.
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