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Job Description

Do you want a challenging job where you contribute to an important societal function with good colleagues? As an operations technician in the utility network, you are given your own responsibility, development opportunities, and a future-proof job to be proud of together with competent and collaborative colleagues. To thrive and succeed as an operations technician, you should have a strong interest in development and changes, especially in technology. Experience as a TV inspector, vacuum truck driver, and work on municipal utility networks is advantageous, but what really matters is your willingness and commitment to grow in the role of operations technician. Your ability to collaborate and meet both internal and external customer expectations is crucial, as the role involves a lot of customer contact.

You will come to a workplace with good camaraderie and pride in our goals and socially important assignments where you are given the opportunity to influence both the work and your professional development. We care about our employees and invest in participation and development as well as a balance between work and leisure, offering among other things wellness time, wellness grants, and the possibility of vacation day conversion. We actively work to ensure that VA SYD is perceived as a very good workplace by our employees. VA SYD is proud to be the recipient of the award “Excellent Employer 2024” from the Key Figures Institute, which shows that our investments in a sustainable working life yield results. 

The position is a permanent full-time employment (daytime) and you will be employed by VA SYD. You will be based at the newly renovated facility on Agnesfridsvägen in Malmö. On-call work may be included in the role. 

Warm welcome with your application, no later than April 6.

In this recruitment, VA SYD collaborates with Randstad. For questions about the recruitment process, contact recruitment consultant Nadia Milotti at 0768554059 or via email Nadia.Milotti@randstad.se. 

If you have questions about the job, you can call Fredrik Ericsson, group manager within Wastewater Operations, at 040-6351000. 

VA SYD works with a competency-based recruitment process. This means that all applicants are assessed based on the same criteria and prioritized competencies. Our interviews focus on the competencies that are important for the role, which include professional experience, knowledge, and behaviors. We have removed the personal letter from our process and will instead ask you to briefly motivate why you are applying for the job and answer some selection questions based on the requirements of the role, for those who proceed in the first selection. This way, we save both your and our time by making it clear to you what to focus on, and we can match the right candidate for the role and make an efficient and fair selection. To ensure the quality of the recruitment process at VA SYD and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to apply online via the link in the advertisement. VA SYD conducts socially important activities and therefore places high demands on security and confidentiality awareness among our employees. Some of our positions are security classified, which means that you as an applicant may need to undergo a security review before employment in accordance with the Security Protection Act (2018:585). Some of our positions may also involve military placement.

Responsibilities

In this key role, you will work as an operations technician on VA SYD's utility network with a focus on TV inspection.

Together with your flushing and filming team led by the team leader and in close collaboration with the supervision and maintenance team, you will be responsible for supervision, inspections, and maintenance of the wastewater pipelines in VA SYD's utility network. You will spend most of your time out on assignments throughout VA SYD's operational area (Burlöv, Eslöv, Lomma, Lund, and Malmö). We are careful to ensure that the work is carried out with both high safety and quality. 

Examples of tasks include; 

• Filming wastewater pipelines, writing protocols, making assessments, and inputting film projects into GIS systems.
• Communicating both internally and externally with colleagues and customers.  
• Supervision and maintenance of the utility network
• Tracing in the network to the recipient (e.g., pond, ditch) or pumping station
• Sanitation of wells, pipelines, and land after accidents
• Upstream work 

We are also responsible for emergency responses related to environmental discharges affecting stormwater and/or wastewater systems. The work is normally based at our workplace on Agnesfridsvägen in Malmö, but our projects and work are located throughout VA SYD's entire operational area. Distribution is responsible for all parts included in a distribution facility; utility networks, pumping stations, reservoirs, pressure boosting stations, and reservoirs. The department is responsible for both renewal planning and pipeline network improvements. Read more about ongoing work here: https://www.vasyd.se/Driftinformation

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education as an operations technician or equivalent
• Authorized pipe inspector Mark Publ. P122
• Experience in filming, preferably of municipal pipelines
• Driver's license at least C, if you also have BE it is an advantage 
• Swedish 
• Working on the road, GIS systems, and being able to drive a flushing truck is advantageous

We are looking for someone who is: 

• Meticulous and detail-oriented (required for inspection and documentation)
• Problem-solving and analytical 
• Independent and takes initiative
• Communicative
• Good at collaboration
• Safety-conscious 
• Technically skilled 
• Flexible and adaptable

Experience

Wastewater
Water pipelines

About the company

Va Syd

VA SYD is one of Sweden's largest water and waste organizations that is making significant investments in sustainable wastewater treatment and driving environmentally smart solutions in community building. Our operations run around the clock, have over half a million customers, and generate one and a half billion annually. We purify, quality assure, and deliver drinking water and take care of what is flushed down our sewers to protect seas and watercourses. We manage heavy rainfall by creating creative solutions for the water's path and collect waste for recycling and reuse. We motivate and inspire our customers to make smart environmental choices.