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Company Description

This is us, your new colleagues!

Vattenfall AB Värme Uppsala produces and delivers approximately 1500 GWh of district heating in Uppsala, Knivsta, and Storvreta. In Uppsala, we also produce and deliver district cooling, steam, and the facility generates electricity. The operation consists of waste incineration as the base and mainly biomass-fired plants as a complement during the colder part of the year.

In Sweden, we deliver district heating, district cooling, and steam to industries, property owners, and residential customers in fifteen municipalities. Värme Sverige is the fourth largest district heating supplier in Sweden, providing sustainable heating to around 200,000 Swedish households and heat, cooling, and steam to industrial customers. We are particularly proud that our main product, district heating, plays an important role in the new circular society.

About the Role

At Vattenfall, we have decided to build a future where everyone can choose fossil-free ways to transport, produce, and live. Do you want to join us on the journey towards a fossil-free future? Vattenfall Värme is now looking for an automation engineer with system management responsibility who wants to help shape tomorrow's climate-smart society and assist our customers in transitioning to a fossil-free life.

As a senior automation engineer, you will be involved in planning and monitoring the preventive and corrective maintenance of analysis, control, and regulation equipment. You will also participate in renovation and extension projects as a requirements setter and be part of the procurement of framework agreements and similar.

You will have system responsibility and management responsibility for parts of the facility's automation systems and networks, which includes:

• collecting change requests and assessing them together with other stakeholders
• planning for the lifespan and development of our automation systems
• proposing management and development budgets for system owners
• developing frameworks and requirements for projects and ensuring compliance
• supporting our own staff and consultants
• Tech IT security responsibility

The role also includes being part of the corrective maintenance, both as an executor and as support for our technicians. You will work in our maintenance system SAP-PM with facility registers, work order management, maintenance plans, etc.

The work is varied; for example, you will find yourself out in our operations close to our core activities, participate in project meetings, work in teams, but also independently in and outside your office.

The position also includes scheduled on-call duty.

Requirements

• Post-secondary education, civil engineer, engineering degree, or a YH degree focused on automation/energy technology/electrical power.
• At least 5 years of experience in automation and maintenance/management within a similar industry.
• High competence in Siemens DCS, PLC/SCADA, computers (PC/VMware/vSphere), and networks.
• Good ability to express yourself in both spoken and written Swedish and English.
• A valid driver's license (B) is required.
• Competence in SAP PM/MM is an advantage.

We will place great importance on your personal qualities as well and hope that you are flexible and can quickly adapt to changing needs and situations. You are driven by problem-solving and enjoy taking the initiative to drive your work forward and get things done. You have good collaboration skills and are an effective communicator. The position also requires you to have a structured approach to maintain a safe facility with a good working environment.

Additional Information

What can we offer you?

With us, you will be part of a strong team with fantastic colleagues. The organization is engaged and motivated and faces several exciting challenges. We offer a varied job, modern leadership, and many points of contact. Ensuring that life as a whole works is a given for us; we place great importance on you finding a balance between work and leisure and offer attractive employee benefits. As an employee at Vattenfall Värme, you are involved in creating the heating of the future and shaping tomorrow's fossil-free energy society.

Location: Uppsala. Day trips in the job to our facilities are a natural part of the work.

For more information about the position, please contact the recruiting manager, Anders Holmgren, [email protected].

For information about the recruitment process, please contact recruiter Catalina Roa Rodriguez, [email protected].

We warmly welcome your application by February 2, 2025. We do not accept applications via email, only through our website. Selection and interviews will take place after the application deadline.

Union representatives are Stefan Andersson, Akademikerna, Kjell Karlsson, Ledarna, Jan Svensson, SEKO, and Patrik Nenzén, Unionen, and you can reach all of them through Vattenfall's switchboard, 08 739 50 00.

We are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and attractive company and strive to be good role models regarding diversity. Vattenfall actively works to ensure that all employees have the same opportunities and rights regardless of age, ethnic or cultural background, gender identity, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or disability. Read more about how we work with diversity and inclusion here.

Vattenfall is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, and many services are security classified. If this position is security classified, a security review will be conducted before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act.