Summer Job as Environmental Worker

Do you have an interest in the environment and sustainability? Do you love meeting people and want to make it easier for our customers to sort correctly?

The Reuse Unit is responsible for the region's 18 reuse centers, which are visited daily by people who want to dispose of their waste. We are now looking for someone to work as a Summer Environmental Worker and assist visitors at the reuse centers in Sala, Heby, and Östervåla!

About the Role

As an environmental worker, you are the face of the organization, as you meet our customers who visit the reuse centers daily. Your main task is to be visible and provide them with service through advice and assistance in sorting correctly.

You will also receive hazardous waste and fill out documentation for invoicing and reporting. This includes operating a wheel loader to move materials, containers, and other goods on the premises.

Part of your job is to work towards ensuring that routines and working methods are uniform across all our reuse centers. Therefore, contact and collaboration with your colleagues across the entire unit is central.

Who are you?

You who are applying have an interest in working with environmental and waste issues. You are responsible and organized as you largely plan your work at the reuse center independently. Your initiative is high, you strive for high quality at the reuse centers and see potential improvements.

Meeting people motivates you, and being service-oriented comes naturally to you. You have the ability to meet customers in a safe and adapted manner, both to solve immediate issues and to spread knowledge.

To thrive in the role, you need to be flexible and happily embrace new working methods and routines. Good collaboration with your colleagues is of great importance.

It is important that you can relate to our values: Trustworthy, Caring, and Innovative, and that you can work based on these. Equally important is that you share our desire to contribute to a sustainable society.

We see that you have:

• Completed secondary education.
• Knowledge of the Office suite.
• Good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form.
• Current experience in customer service, for example, within customer service, retail, sales, or advisory roles. Alternatively, other experience in customer interaction that the employer assesses as equivalent.
• An interest in the environment and a desire to contribute to a sustainable society.
• A valid driver's license for a manual transmission vehicle.

It is meritorious if you also have:

• Wheel loader training (C2 license) and forklift licenses A2 and B1.
• A post-secondary education in a field relevant to the position.
• Experience working at a reuse center or in another environmental or sustainability-related profession.
• Experience handling hazardous waste.

What do you get?

With us, you will have a varied job in a workplace that prioritizes the environment. Here, we care about each other and our work environment.

Read more about what it’s like to work with us here: Work with us (https://vafabmiljo.cruitive.com/)

We want to reflect our customers and society at large and therefore want to hire people from diverse backgrounds and value the knowledge and experience this brings.

Other important information:

The position is a summer temporary position between June 1 - August 31. Desired start for training in April or May.

How to apply:

Does this sound like a position for you? Then you are welcome to apply for the position today. The application deadline is February 1, 2026.

Warm welcome with your application!

Offers of recruitment and advertising assistance are declined.

About Vafabmiljö

Vafabmiljö is a municipal federation formed by Heby, Enköping, and all municipalities in Västmanland. We work with waste management in a way that is sustainable and long-term. Our goals are to reduce waste volumes and to see waste as a resource. Everything should be reused or recycled as far as possible. By sharing our knowledge and offering good solutions, we want to provide you with the conditions to help create a sustainable future. Together, we can save the world a little bit every day, as we like to say.