Job Advertisement: Systems Engineer in Ship Technology

The Swedish Armed Forces are in an expansion phase and on a significant growth journey. Here you have the opportunity to work in a committed and close-knit team where you can develop while contributing to the organization's development. Applying unit: MS (Naval Staff) DSK (Operations Control Office) AST (Amphibious Support Troop) in Karlskrona.

About the Unit

The Operations Control Office's AST department designs and procures technical maintenance, both preventive and corrective, for the Navy's boats and vessels. With professional staff, we carry out and develop operations together with the rest of the Armed Forces (FM) and in close collaboration with the Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) and industry. The department consists of about 15 employees based in Karlskrona.

With us, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting tasks to help make Sweden and the world a little safer. We value mutual trust, and with us, you will have both personal responsibility and good opportunities for professional development. Our employees are important to us, and with us, you will have the chance to combine the professional with the personal.

Main Responsibilities

• Prepare preventive and corrective maintenance needs in dialogue with the units using boats and vessels and convert these needs into orders to suppliers.
• As a natural part of the job, project management will occur, as support to the section's production leaders.
• Check and quality assure completed maintenance after work has been performed by the supplier.
• Participate in and provide technical system support during analysis work, studies, development, and procurement of new and modified material systems, as well as during the creation of documentation.
• Engage in dialogue regarding orders/reviews with suppliers and units.
• Represent customers within your technical area against other technical parties within the Armed Forces, the Defence Materiel Administration, and industry.
• In your role as a systems engineer in ship technology, you will have primary responsibility for the maintenance of the vessels' auxiliary systems such as pumps, hydraulics, refrigeration machines, and gearboxes.

REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications

• Several years of experience in operation or maintenance of vessels within the ship technology area with engine power exceeding 3000 kW.
• You have a degree from the marine engineering program.
• Experience in project management.
• You communicate fluently in Swedish and English, both orally and in writing.
• Driver's license B.

Personal Attributes

As the role involves many contact points, you have good collaboration skills, are responsible, and listen to others while acting in a responsive and flexible manner. You take initiative, start activities, and achieve results. Weighing complex information and showing judgment comes naturally to you. Furthermore, you are structured and plan and organize your work effectively within given time frames.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

MERITORIOUS

• Experience with the Armed Forces' technical systems. Also, other system work and requirements management as well as operation and maintenance of systems, for example, in the form of previous service in a technical position. Experience from vessels with diesel-electric propulsion.
• Experience working with classification societies and their regulations.

For the authority's mission to be successful, all employees are expected to act according to the existing values. The Armed Forces' values uphold the equal worth of all people, justice, and equality, and promote democracy and human rights (read more at www.forsvarsmakten.se).

Other

Employment form: Permanent employment starting with a six-month probationary period.
Employment degree: Full-time.
Work location: Karlskrona.
Start date: As soon as possible by agreement.
The position includes business trips, mainly within Sweden.

Inquiries about the position and recruitment process

Per Stening
Mårten Ringborg

Union Representatives

SACO-S Åsa Zackrisson.
OFR/S Björn Engren.
OFR/O Fredrik Lambert.
SEKO Lenny Johansson.

All of the above can be reached via the FM switchboard; 0455-85 000.

Application

Welcome with your application by 2025-04-30. Your application should include a CV and a cover letter where you explain why you are suitable for this position and answer the specified selection questions.

Applications for this position will only be accepted via the Armed Forces' website.