Food Inspector at the Swedish Food Agency

Are you interested in contributing to good animal welfare and ensuring the safety of the food we eat? As a Food Inspector at the Swedish Food Agency, you will work for the best interests of animals, for consumer health, and to facilitate food companies in doing the right thing. Here, you will be part of a large and secure organization, receive thorough training, and have the opportunity to develop your veterinary skills in a role where you truly make a difference for animals and people.

A Sustainable Employment

The Swedish Food Agency actively works to offer all employees a sustainable employment. We provide you with a thorough introduction when you start with us, and we offer secure working conditions and good benefits. Subsidized massage and daytime work without on-call, evening, and weekend shifts are some of these benefits. We want you to feel that it is enjoyable to go to work and that what you do is important. As an official veterinarian, you contribute to Sweden having good animal welfare and safe food.

As a Food Inspector

As a food inspector, you have a significant role – and it feels good to make a difference! You maintain and contribute to good animal welfare for Sweden's production animals. At the same time, you contribute to sustainable food development, ensuring that the food in Sweden is safe to eat and that food consumers are not deceived.

A Societal Important Mission

As a food inspector at the Swedish Food Agency, you are an important link in the chain for safe food. You are an authority figure with a control mission but should also act as support and facilitate for the entrepreneur to do the right thing.

You are responsible for inspecting animal carcasses after slaughter and making an assessment of whether the meat can be approved as food or should be further examined by an official veterinarian. You may also be required to perform some sampling.

You will have good opportunities to deepen your knowledge in animal welfare, pathology, microbiology, and food safety while learning a lot about food production. With us, you will utilize your knowledge from your veterinary studies and have the opportunity to develop them in practice! During the summer, you will also get to experience the everyday life of our knowledgeable employees and gain deeper insight into what the various roles entail.

Often, you will be stationed at one of our larger slaughterhouses and work side by side with other food inspectors or the responsible official veterinarian, who will support you in your assessments.

We are looking for employees in several locations across the country!

Regardless of placement, you will receive a proper introduction to the work. You do not need to have any previous work experience.

Your Competencies

You should have completed year 3 of the Swedish veterinary education with a passing grade in the food safety course, or have equivalent knowledge from another EU-approved veterinary education. For those studying abroad, you must also be approved in the food hygiene course(s). You are also eligible if you are a veterinarian but lack Swedish veterinary authorization, or have completed the Swedish Food Agency's training to become a food inspector. You should have good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form. A driving license (B) is required in some locations but not all.

As a person, you need to be flexible, punctual, and able to make well-founded decisions and take initiatives. You have high personal maturity with the ability to reflect on your own strengths and areas for development, as well as being able to see and contribute to the whole. You dare to make the decisions required in consultation with your colleagues and supervisor.

You have good collaboration skills and enjoy building good relationships. You willingly share your knowledge and experience while being open to learning from others, as it is together with colleagues that you succeed and develop. Conversations in meetings with entrepreneurs and in contact with other stakeholders are also part of the job, which requires you to be clear, professional, and attentive in your communication. We will place great emphasis on your personal qualities.

Interested?

We are looking for summer substitutes in several locations. When you submit your application, you can choose which locations you are interested in. If you are registered in a location that is more than 10 miles from the placement location, we offer a housing supplement if the workplace cannot provide accommodation options. We will also reimburse you for travel costs for your arrival and return trip. However, the housing supplement and travel reimbursement do not apply to the service location Uppsala. Take the chance to see some part of our long country that you haven't been to yet!

We have a particularly high need for substitutes during weeks 28-31, but we prefer that you work six to eight weeks.

Contact

If you have any questions about the job, you are welcome to contact one of the team leaders Marie Johansson, Mattias Nordlander, or Charlotta Wisbrant. The representative for Saco-S is Nora Arifali and for ST Ricardo Machuca. All can be reached through our switchboard at tel. 018-17 55 00.

Application Deadline

Apply immediately, but no later than 2026-02-18. We review applications continuously, and positions may be filled before the application deadline. Apply via the job advertisement on livsmedelsverket.se/lediga jobb.

Employment Type

Fixed-term employment during the summer of 2026, duration of the substitute position according to agreement.

Scope

80–100%. At one of our facilities, part-time with four-day weeks is applied.

Start Date

According to agreement

Diary Number

2025/04025

Grades, certificates, and licenses that support your application should be brought to any interview. We will also request references.

Welcome with your application!

This recruitment is conducted entirely by the Swedish Food Agency. Therefore, we kindly ask recruitment companies and advertisement sellers not to call.

More about the Swedish Food Agency

The Swedish Food Agency works to ensure that the food produced, sold, and served in Sweden is safe and honest, for a society where it is easy for people to eat in a healthy and sustainable way, and a secure food and drinking water supply in everyday life and crisis. Our tools are knowledge, advice, regulations, and control. In total, we are about 700 employees, of which more than 390 in Uppsala and about 300 working with food control across the country.