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Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work together with dedication to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We provide you with a trustworthy workplace where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!

Gävle Municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with good opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal city of Gävle, you are close to nature, culture, and experiences. Do you want to help take Gävle into the future? We are now looking for someone who wants to make Gävle even better together with us!

The employees of Livsmiljö Gävle make Gävle more beautiful, safer, and more eventful. Every day we provide people with experiences while we build, develop, and influence today's and tomorrow's society. Your contributions have a significant impact on the daily lives of Gävle residents. We offer you a meaningful, stimulating, and developing job. We ensure that Gävle grows and provides exciting experiences for its residents.

At the building permit unit, we work with permit applications, notifications, preliminary decisions, shoreline protection, and supervision matters, as well as conducting inspections in connection with constructions. We also have a team that handles housing adaptation grants and housing priorities. Currently, we are nearly 30 employees divided into different teams where we help and support each other. We are now looking for a colleague to join one of our building permit teams – could it be you?

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Do you want to help shape the future of Gävle? With us, you will work in an important authority role as part of building and digitization projects, with a strong focus on service and quality.

As a building permit officer/building inspector with us, you will be part of a knowledgeable and helpful building permit team. We work closely together and value good collaboration where we support each other in daily tasks both within the team and within the unit.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Working with digitization and system management within the building permit unit's processes, including the development and improvement of digital working methods and support for operational systems
• Processing building permits, notifications, preliminary decisions, and shoreline protection exemptions
• Conducting technical consultations, site visits, and final consultations
• Providing advice and guidance on building permit issues, often in early stages

The role involves a high degree of independence, and many decisions are made by delegation. This means you must be structured, responsible, and confident in your assessments. Some cases you will present to the board.

Customer satisfaction is a major focus at the building permit unit. You will have many contacts, both internally and externally with entrepreneurs, private individuals, builders, consultants, and other authorities.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has:

• Good IT understanding and knowledge of digitization within the field
• Relevant education, such as a building engineer, building permit officer, architect, lawyer, or building conservator, or equivalent competence through experience
• Experience working as a building permit officer or building inspector
• Good knowledge of the Planning and Building Act (PBL)

Meritorious:

• Previous experience from the construction industry
• Experience working in a system management role is an advantage

A B driver's license is required for the position, as travel within the municipality is part of the job.

Your personal competencies:

• You are structured and work according to a clear process
• You build good relationships and get along well with people at all levels
• You are stable and handle stress constructively
• You are communicative and can express yourself and interact with others in both speech and writing

With us, you will have a meaningful job where you contribute to a sustainable and attractive living environment for Gävle's residents. We offer a workplace with engaged colleagues, a good atmosphere, and the opportunity to grow in your professional role.

Welcome to us!

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Within Gävle Municipality, there is a decision regarding the right to full-time employment, meaning that permanent employees can request that the position be a full-time position. This request must be accommodated within six months, earliest counted from the first day of employment. To have the right to full-time employment met, you may need to perform other tasks than those typically included in your employment.

Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it may be an advantage.

In preparation for the recruitment process, Gävle Municipality has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly request no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.