Job Advertisement: Partsman for the Mark Workshop in Umeå

Do you have experience in warehouse/logistics work or have you perhaps worked for a while as a mechanic? Do you have a general interest in technology and enjoy varied work? Then you might be the one we are looking for at the Mark Workshop in Umeå.

The Position Offers

With us, you will have the opportunity to work with exciting tasks to help make Sweden and the world a little safer. We value mutual trust, and with us, you will have both significant personal responsibility and good opportunities for professional development. We also provide the opportunity to train during work hours, have generous working time agreements, parental salary, and up to seven weeks of vacation per year.

Mark Workshop North is a unit under the Army Staff, and you will belong to the northern department with about 180 employees, operating in Boden, Östersund, Luleå, Arvidsjaur, Vidsel, Sollefteå, and Umeå. We perform maintenance on the Armed Forces' ground equipment and provide technical system support. This includes maintenance in the form of supervision, repairs, manufacturing, modifications, operational support, technical adaptation, and material investigation.

Main Responsibilities

As a partsman, you will work with parts preparation, ensuring and quality assurance of the basis for parts ordering, and determining whether parts should be procured through internal or external parties. You will initiate, monitor, and close customer orders in our support systems. The work also includes searching for and ordering materials, goods handling, and other warehouse management as well as inventory care. Being involved, developing, and driving Mv Umeå forward is something we see as a given.

Requirements Qualifications

• You have at least a two- or three-year high school education in vehicle technology/industry or other education/competence acquired through work experience that the employer assesses as equivalent.
• Experience in warehouse, logistics, or parts management.
• Good knowledge of Swedish and English in both speech and writing.
• High computer skills and good knowledge of the Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Driving license B.

Personal Attributes

You are a team player who works well independently as well as in a group. As a partsman, you are flexible, resilient, and responsible. Since the work involves collaboration and contacts with customers and colleagues both internally and externally, it is important that you are service-oriented. You are meticulous and have a focus on high quality throughout the work process.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

For the authority's mission to be successful, it is assumed that all employees act according to the values that exist. The Armed Forces' values uphold the equal worth of all people, justice, and equality and promote democracy and human rights (read more at www.forsvarsmakten.se (http://www.forsvarsmakten.se)).

Meritorious

• Experience in warehouse, logistics, or parts management.
• Previous experience in technical service within the Armed Forces.
• Training certificates for forklift, crane, wheel loader.
• Experience working in business systems (we work in SAP).

Other

Employment type: Permanent employment starting with a 6-month probationary period.

Employment rate: Full-time, daytime with flexible varying working hours may be applied.

Work location: Mark Workshop North / Umeå.

Start date: As soon as possible or by agreement.

The work also requires travel and service, both domestically and internationally. The position is a civilian position.

Inquiries about the position

Section Chief Andreas Säfström: 073-086 95 86

Union Representatives

SACO: Karin Gällmo

OFR-S: Tony Svensson

SEKO: Irene Ström

AST OF: Tobias Brandt

All can be contacted via phone 08-788 75 00

Application Deadline

Welcome with your application no later than 2026-02-23. Your application should include a CV and a cover letter explaining why you are suitable for this position.

Applications for this position will only be accepted via the Armed Forces' website.