Work with Contaminated Areas at the County Administrative Board

When you work at the County Administrative Board, you get to use your knowledge at the country's broadest authority. The County Administrative Board is the state's representative in the county and ensures that national goals are implemented. With consideration to regional conditions, we make trade-offs between various societal interests. This is done through collaboration between experts in a range of different fields and in cooperation with authorities, municipalities, and organizations.

At the County Administrative Board, we create social benefit and influence societal development every day. It is an important mission, a great responsibility, and an inspiring opportunity. Let your knowledge become a force for Östergötland.

We are now looking for

A colleague who wants to work with contaminated areas.

You will belong to

The Environmental Protection Unit, which handles cases related to contaminated areas and environmentally hazardous activities. Regarding contaminated areas, the unit's mission mainly involves conducting supervision according to the Environmental Code for ongoing and closed activities, managing and administering state-funded projects, and providing supervisory guidance to municipalities in the county. The unit also has tasks such as inventorying and verifying PFAS and pollutants in sediments.

Your tasks

All tasks involve having personal responsibility for supervision objects, grant projects, or other assignments and independently driving the work. This may include inventorying, investigating, and addressing contaminated areas by producing liability investigations, deciding and ordering investigations and measures, as well as reviewing reports.

The work involves many contacts with operators, property owners, consultants, municipalities, and the public. It may also include arranging meetings for case handlers or sending out information to municipalities in the county.

Your interests, previous experiences, and the unit's mission will influence your tasks. As the work with us is in constant development, the tasks may change over time, and other parts of the authority's work may also become relevant in your role with us. However, the work will give you opportunities to develop, broaden your competence, and work with operational development in contaminated areas regionally or nationally.

The tasks include some of the following areas:

• Supervision according to the Environmental Code for contaminated areas.
• Supervisory guidance to municipalities.
• Investigating liability for contaminated areas
• Handling grant and support cases
• Driving/participating in various assignments related to contaminated areas, such as PFAS

Mandatory requirements for the position:

• You have a scientific/technical education at the university level or equivalent that we assess as equivalent.
• Experience working with contaminated areas, for example as a consultant, contractor, principal, problem owner, or case handler at a municipality/authority.
• You have good knowledge of environmental legislation.
• You can express yourself well in writing (Swedish). This means writing well-formulated and clear with thoughtfulness and clarity.
• Driver's license B, as supervision takes place at activities throughout the county.

As a person:

• You have a high ability to collaborate, as you work well with other people. You relate to them in a responsive and smooth manner. You listen, communicate, and resolve conflicts constructively.
• You are good at oral communication, as you speak well-formulated and engagingly in individual meetings and in small and large groups. You listen and are receptive to the other party and adapt to the situation.
• You are self-driven, as you take responsibility for your task. You structure your working method and drive your processes forward.
• You are goal and result-oriented, as you work towards goals and focus on results. You are guided by goal- and result-oriented thinking in prioritization, planning, and action. You change your direction when the goals change.

Great emphasis is placed on your personal suitability.

The employment is

A permanent full-time position that begins with a six-month probationary period. Start date according to agreement.

If you want to know more, contact:

Unit Manager, Kristina Nyhlén, phone: 010-223 54 27

Union representatives:

• SACO, Magnus Roback, phone: 010-223 54 89.
• ST, Nina Stenmark, phone: 010-223 53 04. During working days around Christmas and New Year, contact Alma Basic at phone: 010-223 52 77.

Welcome with your application

Which you send via www.varbi.com. Your application must be received by 2026-01-19, indicate ref no: 19670.

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