Agricultural Machinery Mechanic EFZ 100%

Start of position: 1. December 2026 or by arrangement Work location: Gampelen The Justizvollzugsanstalt Witzwil executes sentences and measures for 184 adult men in open prison sentences as well as in administrative detention under immigration law. The inmates are guided and supported in various professions in agriculture, trade, and supply according to work-agogic principles. In the penal system, around 140 employees work consistently towards the goal of socialization and reduction of recidivism of the prisoners. Production goals and penal goals do not compete, but rather complement each other. Your tasks As a work master, you primarily maintain and repair machines and support the other specialist departments of our mechanical workshops. In the absence of our workshop manager, you take over the management in the agricultural machinery department. At your workplace, you lead and promote a group of admitted persons according to work-agogic principles. You work interdisciplinary with other work masters and penal officers. Your profile You have training as an agricultural machinery mechanic or training in a related profession with an eidg. Fähigkeitszeugnis and ideally demonstrate several years of professional experience. Working with admitted persons, also from other cultural backgrounds, is a challenge and an incentive for you at the same time. As a resilient, stable, and capable of criticism personality, you keep a cool head even in delicate situations. You enjoy working in a team and are interested in and open to new things. You enjoy applying IT skills (Office) regularly and instructing the admitted persons in their work also in French. We offer you A challenging and exciting task awaits you in one of the largest agricultural businesses in Switzerland with a large, diverse, and modern machine park. As a "bridge to freedom", your work makes an essential contribution to the reintegration of the admitted persons into society. You will acquire the necessary penal knowledge during an in-service training or further education at the Schweizerisches Kompetenzzentrum für den Justizvollzug. Your workplace is located in a unique natural landscape. Contact We look forward to your application. Send us your application documents online by 17. September 2026. Further information will be gladly provided by Ulrich Schafroth, Bereichsleiter Betriebe or Ramon Balmer, Fachverantwortlicher Landmaschinen, Tel. +41 31 635 65 11. About the Amt für Justizvollzug The Amt für Justizvollzug (AJV) is responsible for the open and closed execution of sentences and measures for adults and youths with around 1000 employees within the Sicherheitsdirektion des Kantons Bern (SID). To fulfill this task, the office has four concordat correctional institutions, four regional prisons, the Bewachungsstation am Inselspital, the Haftleitstelle, as well as the Bewährungs- und Vollzugsdienste at its disposal. https://www.ajv.sid.be.ch/de/start.html