Electrical engineering for your drive since 1967. Get to know our team, our partners and our history – and perhaps soon us as your employer, too.
Contact persons
Our team will be happy to provide information to you by e-mail or telephone.
Moritz Bolli
Claudia Bösch
Roman Frei
René Saxer
Marcel Frei
Samuel Rechsteiner
Dominik Wespe
Esther Jakopic
Claudio Gerth
André Lienammer
Angela Steiner
Nicolas Blöchliger
Vacancies
Are you interested in becoming part of our team? Here you will find our vacancies. We look forward to receiving your application.
We currently have no vacancies.
Apprenticeships
We offer 1-2 young people a varied and exciting apprenticeship each year with federal vocational education and training in the automation technician and automation fitter professions.
Career information afternoon
We hold a career information afternoon twice each year on the automation technician and automation fitter professions. During this afternoon, you will learn more from professionals about training for these professions in our company over almost two hours. Besides a short film and useful information, you will also get an insight into our workshop. You are very welcome to join us if you are in high school and would like to find out more about these two professions.
The information afternoons take place between 13:30 until approx. 15:30.
Next dates: no dates fixed yet.
Trial apprenticeships
We offer a trial apprenticeship as an automation technician or automation fitter for anyone who is interested.
A trial apprenticeship with us lasts 2 days.
During this trial apprenticeship you will:
- check an electric motor.
- build and wire a small control system.
- gain an insight into motor winding.
- repair an electrical appliance.
Registration for a trial apprenticeship
Please complete the application form for a trial apprenticeship and return it to us.
Open apprenticeships for 2027
We look forward to your application:
Partners
We offer you solutions in all areas of drive technology with our long-standing and international partners.
ABB Authorized value provider
As an ABB partner, we carry out repairs and service work for ABB at the end-customer site or at our factory. Of course, we can supply you with all ABB products such as motors, frequency converters and automation products from our warehouse.
SKF Certified Partner
As an SKF partner, we receive continuous training on correct mounting procedures for rolling bearings on electric motors and on detecting damage. We advise our customers with SKF Switzerland for optimal solutions. We can supply most bearings from our warehouse and special bearing types within a few hours or days.
Herborner Service Point Switzerland
We are the Swiss support point for renowned pump manufacturer Herborner Pumpentechnik from Germany and carry out repairs, overhauls and conversions throughout Switzerland on their behalf.
ABM Greiffenberger
ABM Greiffenberger Antriebstechnik GmbH develops and produces next generation drive solutions of the highest quality. W.frei ag is the sole partner for the whole of Switzerland. We repair and overhaul all geared motors and keep an extensive stock of spare parts.
Geberit
w.frei ag is the official repair and test workshop for Geberit tools. As a service centre for the whole of Switzerland, we repair and test all manual tools on behalf of Geberit that are required by sanitary engineers for the processing of Geberit products, with a system guarantee.
Novopress
Novopress is active globally as a manufacturer of mechanical and hydraulic presses for pipe joining technology. We repair and test all pressing tools as a service partner in Switzerland.
SEW Eurodrive
As a top specialist in drive technology, Alfred Imhof AG has been actively working with products from SEW-Eurodrive for several decades. We work closely with the team as partners in Eastern Switzerland.
History
Electrical engineering for your drive since 1967.
W.frei ag was founded in 1967 by Walter Frei Senior and Clara Frei in the Swiss town of Jona, where the company is still located today. Starting with repairs and overhauls for electrical machines, the service was expanded to include control systems for drives and electrotechnical equipment.
Following some major orders, the company decided to manufacture its own chokes and coils and to produce its own cables. The newly founded "Production" department ensured efficient and high-quality manufacturing. The Geberit Tool Service Centre, where among other activities the electric welding equipment is repaired, was later put into operation as a third mainstay. The first of these devices were developed and manufactured over 50 years ago by Walter Frei Sen. at Walter Frei AG.
a.merki ag has been part of w.frei ag since 2017. This expands the range to include mechanical machining and metal cutting for all materials. State-of-the-art 5-axis machines and CNC lathes enable us to repair and manufacture shafts and other mechanical components within a short time.