Training as a train traffic controller and additional qualification as a track designer
(m/f/d)Job Description
Step by step to professional success – training as a train traffic controller and additional qualification as a track engineer. Are you fascinated by trains? Not only because they have been transporting people and goods to their destinations in an environmentally friendly way for decades, but also because you are captivated by the different carriages, locomotives, and track layouts? Then you should find out about vocational training as a train traffic controller and additional qualification as a track engineer! During the training as a train traffic controller, you will learn what happens behind the scenes to ensure that trains reach their destinations every day. Various signaling technologies, the transmission of signals, and the setting of points – whatever it takes for a train to reach its destination as planned: you will implement it! The further qualification as a track engineer will ultimately make you an expert on routes in the rail network. When new routes are requested, you will check whether they can be implemented, design them, and communicate this to the relevant authorities.
Job Profile
Graduation
Soft Skills
Grades
Areas of Interest
Important School Subjects
- math
- IT
- German
- English
Training Content
- You will familiarize yourself with working in a signal box and gain an overview of how train journeys are handled.
- Learning about and operating different signaling technologies
- Rules and guidelines (regulations) for the scheduled operation of daily train journeys
- Expertise to ensure safe and smooth train traffic in your area
- You will be responsible for switches and signals, and therefore also for our passengers and trains.
- We enable railway companies to fulfill their route requests in a non-discriminatory manner and with optimal use of our infrastructure.
- Design routes independently, taking legal frameworks into account.
- Ensure communication with railway undertakings and operational procedures
- You will develop feasibility studies and proposed solutions for conflicts regarding route usage.
Salary
Advantages
- You will receive a mobile device from us that you can use for learning and also for private purposes."
- We offer you 16 free journeys within Germany per year and other travel benefits such as the DB Job Ticket for your daily commute.
- Subsidy up to €350 per month.
What to expect
- You have (almost) successfully completed school
- Your focused and reliable work ethic sets you apart.
- You are happy to take on responsibility and are willing to make decisions.
- Even in challenging situations, you remain calm and keep track of everything.
- You are an open, communicative person and enjoy working in a team.
- You are willing to work shifts.
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