Group Manager for Inflow Water and Operational Investigations

Do you believe that water and environmental issues are an important part of everyday life and are driven to develop both people and technology? VA SYD is looking for a group manager who wants to lead and develop our work with inflow water, operational investigations, and ensure that our open stormwater facilities fulfill their function while taking on our common challenge to achieve our goals.

This is what the job is about

As a group manager within coordination and investigation, you will:

• Have full personnel responsibility, leading, coaching, and developing 11 employees working with operational investigations, inflow water, and open stormwater facilities.
• Have budget responsibility, including budget, forecasts, and outcomes both internally and towards contracted entrepreneurs.
• Participate in collaboration groups within VA SYD to ensure that the group's issues are included.
• Support the workgroup with prioritizations as needed.
• Have workplace safety responsibility for daily operations.
• Continuously work on improvements in all areas included in the role.

This is a varied job that also requires you to have contacts both internally and externally. Coordination and investigation are part of the Distribution department, which consists of five units managing drinking water, stormwater, and sewage within VA SYD's operational area. The work is based at our workplace on Agnesfridsvägen in Malmö.

We offer

You will join a friendly workplace where we take pride in our important societal mission, and there is a strong willingness among employees to develop the organization. We care about our employees and invest in participation and development as well as a balance between work and leisure. We offer, among other things, wellness time, wellness grants, and the possibility of vacation day exchange. We actively work to ensure that VA SYD is perceived as a very good workplace by our employees and are proud recipients of the award “Attractive Employer” from the Key Figures Institute, which shows that our investments in a sustainable work life yield results.

Who are you?

We are looking for someone who wants to lead according to our environmental identity and our core values of quality, engagement, and responsiveness. You are motivated to achieve the organization's goals and are engaged in the development of yourself, your employees, and the organization. The group is currently self-sufficient and has broad competence and needs a trust-based leadership that we see you can contribute to. We value your communication skills, ability to initiate changes with a results focus, and your good collaboration skills. The role requires a good economic understanding and a structured approach to work.

Your experiences

We prefer that you have:

• A completed university degree, such as an engineer in road and water, landscape engineer, or another relevant field.
• Experience leading others, such as a supervisor, team leader, or previous experience as a manager.
• Good economic understanding, preferably with previous experience in budget and forecasting work.
• A valid driver's license (B).
• Fluent communication skills in Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Understanding of the challenges associated with technical projects within VA is an advantage.

Do you want to help drive environmentally smart solutions in community building? Welcome with your application!

Who is VA SYD?

VA SYD is one of Sweden's largest water and waste organizations that heavily invests in sustainable sewage treatment and promotes environmentally smart solutions in community building. Our operations run around the clock, serving over half a million customers and generating one and a half billion SEK in revenue annually. We purify, quality assure, and deliver drinking water and manage what is flushed down our sewers to protect seas and waterways. We handle 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.

Additional information

At VA SYD, we work 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, including professional experience, knowledge, and behaviors. We have removed the personal letter from our process and instead ask you to briefly explain why you are applying for the job and answer a few selection questions based on the role's requirements. This way, we save both your and our time by making it clear what you should 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 facilitate good communication with our applicants, we ask you to apply online via the link in the advertisement.

VA SYD conducts essential societal operations 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 a candidate may need to undergo a security clearance before employment in accordance with the Security Protection Act (2018:585). Some of our positions may also involve military placement.