Automation technician, Federal VET Diploma
You need to be good with your hands. You’ll check everything related to systems, electronics and automation. You’ll keep the sorting systems running and ensure everything runs smoothly.
You help Swiss Post gain momentum.
Want to find out how technology works at Swiss Post? Imagine you’re the person behind the scenes who makes sure everything runs smoothly at Swiss Post. During your apprenticeship as an automation technician, you’ll immerse yourself in automation, electronics and the control of sorting systems — exciting, practical and varied. Scroll down and discover what your everyday life might look like!
Film: Experiences of an Automation technician, Federal VET Diploma
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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 upper or middle secondary school with very good grades.
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.
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.
Du hast immer einen Plan.
You are reliable and can plan well. You keep an overview and get things done properly.
Training and vocational school:
Four years, lots of action and lots of practical work! In the first two years, you’ll acquire complete basic knowledge of manufacturing technology and automation at our partner company login Berufsbildung AG. In the third and fourth years, you’ll be at the Swiss Post sorting center and will see how technology works in everyday life at Swiss Post. At school, you’ll learn all you need to know about automation, IT and electrical engineering. You’ll spend the first two years in Olten, Zurich-Altstetten or Yverdon, and then continue to Eclépens, Härkingen or Zurich-Mülligen.
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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