Building Permit Manager for Huddinge Municipality

Do you value proximity, growth, and creating the best conditions for everyone living and working in Huddinge Municipality? Then we offer numerous career opportunities in a well-functioning and growing municipality with both nature and urban pulse around the corner. With us, you feel safe, involved, and proud as we make a difference every day. In Huddinge Municipality, we work to create a sustainable society where nature, technology, and good service interact. Huddinge is a large municipality in Stockholm with about 6,400 employees and more than 110,000 residents.

About the Department

As a Building Permit Manager, you will be responsible for a department with 40 employees, including three unit managers. You report to the Technical Director of Huddinge Municipality and are part of the management team of the Environmental and Building Permit Administration along with the other five department heads. We are looking for someone who is driven by contributing to society and is used to working goal-oriented, inclusively, and with development. What we in Huddinge Municipality call transformative leadership.

"In this recruitment, I am looking for a person who can see the whole picture of the work. You understand how your work is connected to doing the best for our municipality. We are proud of our service level towards residents and businesses. I believe you can manage this well. You are an unpretentious and stable leader who enjoys collaboration, networking, and I see that a background where you have worked with PBL is suitable as it requires a good understanding of the area's complexity."

Toralf Nilsson, Technical Director

About the Job

As a Building Permit Manager, you will lead the operations in both substantive and development issues. You are responsible for personnel, working environment, and budget for the operations.

Your responsibilities include, among other things:

• Leading, planning, distributing, coordinating, communicating, and following up on your department's work
• Leading and developing the department with a focus on quality, legal certainty, and good service
• Ensuring that the building permit process follows the Planning and Building Act (PBL) and other relevant regulations
• Ensuring efficient handling of cases
• Supporting employees in complex cases and being a sounding board in legal and technical matters
• Contributing to the municipality's long-term community planning

You also have an important role in continuing to drive our digitalization efforts and our service work where we take great pride in working for the benefit of the residents.

Your Profile

In this role, we would like to see you have:

• Relevant education in, for example, urban planning or as an architect
• Management experience, including personnel and budget responsibility, for at least 5 years. Preferably within community building and/or related areas
• Municipal experience, preferably as a manager

Furthermore, we see that you have:

• Good experience in working strategically with long-term quality in focus. You should preferably have experience working with interim reports and operational reports
• Adequate knowledge of PBL, as you will be a support for your staff as well as towards the building permit and supervision committee
• Experience in leading other managers
• A focus on service and customer experience
• Good experience in handling written documentation and financial management

As a person, we are looking for someone who is unpretentious and social. The job involves juggling finance, law, and many contact points, so we see that you are organized and communicative. You will lead experienced managers and have a good sense of giving responsibility and being a sounding board.

Warmly welcome to apply for this interesting and socially important position.

Contact: Toralf Nilsson, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Benefits

In order to carry out our mission, you as an employee in Huddinge Municipality are our most important asset. Therefore, we offer a range of benefits for a sustainable work life and to facilitate your everyday life.

Read more about our benefits here (https://www.huddinge.se/arbete-och-karriar/arbeta-i-huddinge-kommun/#Formaner).

We offer good opportunities for professional development with an individual development plan and personal course selection.

We provide flexible working hours, wellness hours or wellness grants, and the opportunity to exchange vacation day allowances for extra days off.

The Environmental and Building Permit Administration is located in modern and nice premises in Flemingsberg, just 20 minutes from Stockholm City and within walking distance from Flemingsberg station. You can easily and quickly reach us by public transport such as commuter trains, buses, or regional trains. There is parking and a bicycle garage in the building.

We at Huddinge Municipality care that our employees have high integrity, an ethical approach, and act professionally. As a qualitative step in our recruitment process, we therefore conduct a background check, with the candidate's consent, on our final candidates. This may involve checking personal details, financial conditions, and legal matters. The background check process is conducted in collaboration with SRI: Read more here (https://sri.se/faq-kandidat-bakgrundskontroll/).