Property Engineer at Stockholm City Cemetery Administration

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

The Stockholm Cemetery Administration is responsible for burial services in Stockholm. The Cemetery Administration conducts burial and service operations with high ethical standards and is responsible for 12 cemeteries, 13 chapels, one ceremony building, and 2 crematoria with significant cultural-historical values.

Welcome to us!

As a property engineer in the building and landscape unit within the Cemetery Administration, you will be part of a team where you will work closely with the administration's existing property engineer and property technician, as well as landscape engineers, landscape architects, conservators, and arborists.

We are a competent, unpretentious, positive group that values a good atmosphere, and we share our knowledge and support each other.

We offer

An exciting assignment in a unique environment with varied tasks under significant personal responsibility.

If you become our new colleague, we offer benefits such as flexible working hours, wellness benefits, training initiatives, and seminars on current operational issues, as well as the opportunity to exchange vacation day supplements for extra time off. We care about a good working environment and that our employees feel involved.

Our property portfolio

The Cemetery Administration conducts burial and service operations with high ethical standards. We are responsible for 12 cemeteries, including 13 chapels, one ceremony building, 2 crematoria, and one cold storage.

In addition to these, there are staff buildings, storage buildings, and other buildings. A total of over approximately 50 buildings.

The majority of our buildings have significant cultural-historical values and are subject to the Cultural Heritage Act, including the World Heritage Site Skogskyrkogården. Our cremation operations include technically advanced systems.

Your role

Your task is important for managing our property holdings and developing our working methods. As a property engineer, you are responsible for operations and their installations.

The position involves varied work with many points of contact, including daily contact with suppliers and employees within the administration.

Your tasks include, among other things, being responsible for:

property operations
maintenance planning
control and regulation in properties
tasks related to electrical responsibility and fire issues
ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
public procurement
project management
technical support to other operations

Your competence and experience

We are looking for someone who:

is a trained engineering graduate or has relevant vocational training. Alternatively, you have acquired equivalent competence through several years of experience in a similar role
has current experience from a similar role
experience in control and regulation technology
experience in contract law
experience in project management within construction and installation
has a valid driver's license (B)
has a good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing

It is advantageous if you have:

experience in municipal/public administration
knowledge and application of LOU (The Public Procurement Act)
experience from technical management
experience working with properties in cultural environments

Personal abilities and skills

In the recruitment process, we place great importance on personal suitability, motivation for the position, and the following personal abilities. To succeed in the role, you need to be self-reliant, confident in your competence, and accustomed to managing your own time and driving your work forward in a structured and efficient manner.

You are flexible and enjoy varied tasks and are used to having multiple ongoing projects simultaneously. In the work with technology and management within burial services, unexpected situations always arise in sensitive operations, which requires good collaboration skills, great patience, and a solution-oriented approach.

Last but not least, an economic awareness and understanding of costs, revenues, and efficiency from a property economic perspective are required.

Other

The work involves travel within the city of Stockholm.

We see diversity as enriching and welcome all applicants.

Stockholm City works with competence-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competence and thus counteracting discrimination.

We recruit without a personal letter in this recruitment process to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences required for this role. In assessing your application, we will only consider your CV and a number of questions you will be asked to answer when applying for the position. We ask that you respond concretely and succinctly to the questions, and that there is a clear connection between your answers and your CV.

Warm welcome with your application!