Maintenance Technician for tractors and handling equipment - 100%

• 12 November 2026
• 100%
• Indefinite duration
• Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1205 Genève
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Company Description

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève are a reference institution at the national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to discover the highlights of the year 2025 by clicking here.

The position is attached to the Direction de l'immobilier (DI) whose mission is to define a real estate fleet strategy, to develop the consistency of monitoring major projects according to the hospital master plan 2022-2040, in strong partnership with the main services of the State attached to the Département du territoire, the Département des infrastructures and the Department of health, to optimize the monitoring of surfaces and its future planning, while guaranteeing the smooth running of services. More than 230 professionals carry out their missions daily with a constant sense of demand, with a sense of service and environmental responsibility.

The infrastructure operational continuity service is a service provider whose main mission is, thanks to the presence on each site of employees from different trades, to ensure the maintenance of the hospital heritage composed of medical and logistical equipment, buildings and their installations.

Job Description

Within the mechanical sector, you maintain, monitor, troubleshoot, overhaul, improve and ensure the efficient operation of the installations and equipment specific to the mechanical sector and in particular the maintenance of the fleet of tractors, electric lifting equipment, motorized equipment for gardeners, floor scrubbers, diesel engines of emergency generators, trolleys, bins, pallet jacks as well as road equipment.

You decide autonomously on the actions to be undertaken while respecting the priorities defined in terms of vital or secondary parameters for the safety of patients, employees and the heritage.

You ensure preventive and corrective maintenance. You assist with periodic controls carried out by accredited organizations and perform regular inspection rounds and readings.

You monitor the state of the installations and take charge of alarms from the monitoring systems (technical building management). You keep working documents up to date, you carry out replenishment orders for material.

You actively participate in the development of procedures according to technical evolutions.

You assume the role of technical advisor to users regarding mechanical material and control and monitor the work executed by external companies.

You like to find solutions to complex technical problems and you also thrive in performing simpler and more routine tasks.

You are autonomous and also appreciate teamwork, while respecting an established schedule.

You ensure urgent interventions upon request from the control center and during on-call service.

Qualifications

You hold a CFC as a mechanic in Auto maintenance or an equivalent degree completed by at least 5 years of professional experience in the maintenance and troubleshooting of complex installations and handling equipment.

You have very good theoretical and practical knowledge and are comfortable in the repair and maintenance of speed drives, mechanical and electromechanical equipment, welding-etc.

You perfectly master spoken and written French, expressing yourself in a clear and concise manner.

You have good knowledge of standard office software (Microsoft Office) as well as the use of a GMAO software.

Your keen sense of customer service, your team spirit and your openness to change allow you to carry out your activity with ease and to integrate quickly.

Thanks to your calm, composed and discreet personality, you easily establish a relationship of trust with your interlocutors, you demonstrate cooperation and collaboration to help colleagues while being sensitive to the presence of patients and hospital constraints.

Additional Information

You have a regular schedule, while being available outside of hours including night, weekends and public holidays for on-call service according to rotation and urgent interventions.

• Start date: to be agreed
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 100%
• Job class: 11 (Technicien.ne de maintenance 3)
• Contract: CDI
• Application deadline: 24.11.2026
• Request for information: M. A. Bouty, head of the mechanical sector, tel. 022 372 68 91

Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of the diplomas and certificates required for the position and the last 2 work certificates.

This advertisement is addressed indistinctly to women and men.

Wishing to commit to the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourage applications coming from the Office cantonal de l'emploi.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform are taken into account. Paper and email applications will not be processed.