Maintenance Technician or Automation Technician - 100%

Company Description ##

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 trades, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève are a reference institution at 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 strategy for the real estate portfolio, to develop the coherence of the follow-up of 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 one for 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 concern for excellence, 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 of employees from different trades on each site, 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 functioning of the installations and equipment specific to the mechanical sector and in particular complex automated systems.

You autonomously decide 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 the periodic controls carried out by accredited bodies and perform regular control rounds and readings.

You follow the status of the installations and take charge of alarms from the monitoring systems (technical building management). You keep working documents up to date, and you perform 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 equipment and control and follow the work executed by external companies.

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

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

You ensure urgent interventions at the request of the control center and during on-call service.

Qualifications ##

You hold a CFC as an automation technician or an equivalent diploma completed by at least 5 years of professional experience in the maintenance and troubleshooting of complex mechanical installations.

You have very good theoretical and practical knowledge and are comfortable with repair and maintenance in automation, mechanics and electromechanics.

You perfectly master spoken and written French, expressing yourself clearly and concisely.

You have a good knowledge of common 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 bond 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 at night, on weekends and on public holidays for on-call service according to rotation and urgent interventions.

• Start date: to be agreed
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 100%
• Function class: 11
• Contract: CDM of 36 months
• Application deadline: 26.11.2026
• 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 to women and men alike.

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 will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.