Railway traction power and high-voltage electrical safety equipment maker
Sécheron SA builds DC traction substations and high-voltage switching and protection gear for rail and mass transit vehicles. Its stack pairs hardware design tools (Altium Designer, OrCAD, EPLAN, SolidWorks) with an Oracle EBS/APEX ERP core and industrial protocols like IEC 61850 and Modbus. Engineering dominates hiring, and job posts center on moving and localizing production across sites, notably assembly and testing in Prague.
Sécheron SA is a privately held Swiss manufacturer headquartered in Satigny, near Geneva, with 501–1,000 employees. It designs, builds, tests and delivers high-power electrical equipment for railway and industrial customers. Its electrical safety line covers DC and AC circuit breakers, contactors, disconnectors, master controllers and current collectors for locomotives, metros, trams and trolley buses. Its traction power business supplies components up to complete DC substations, including transformer-rectifier groups, switchgear and regenerative inverter or energy storage systems. Hiring activity spans France, the United States and Switzerland.
Sécheron makes switching and protection equipment for rail vehicles, such as DC/AC circuit breakers and contactors, plus complete DC traction substations with rectifiers, switchgear and energy storage.
Its stack includes Altium Designer, OrCAD, Eagle, EPLAN, SolidWorks and LabVIEW, with C++, Python, Polarion, Redmine and Bitbucket for software and requirements work, and Oracle EBS as ERP.
Sécheron is hiring in France, the United States and Switzerland, with openings weighted toward senior engineering roles and some manufacturing, sales and support positions.
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