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Are you solution-oriented and want to make a significant societal impact while believing that collaboration is the path to success? Then the role of traffic controller might be for you.

At the Swedish Transport Administration, you help facilitate the daily lives of residents and businesses across Sweden. You do this by contributing to the important work of traffic safety.

"The best part of working as a traffic controller is that we are challenged together to find solutions to ensure that road users get home safely and securely," says an employee about the position.

"With trust and support, I give my employees responsibility and room for action in their assignments. The operational support is led by production managers close to the operations, while I am responsible for the overall and long-term perspective," says Fatima Iramdane, who will be your new manager.

As a traffic controller, you work in a traffic center together with other traffic controllers and operations technicians to ensure that our roads, tunnels, and facilities are passable. In this role, you monitor, control, and inform about road traffic within a designated area of responsibility.

We work together in a stimulating and developing environment where no day is like the other.

Your tasks include:

• monitoring traffic flow using technical equipment in the facility
• informing road users, business transports, media, police, SOS, etc. about the situation on the roads via web and traffic radio
• managing disruptions in traffic due to accidents, obstacles, and stoppages to maintain maximum accessibility
• analyzing and forecasting planned and unplanned events that may affect traffic, such as weather or roadworks
• supporting internal operational management functions during non-normal events through information management and gathering decision-making data

The position involves shift work, 12-hour shifts, around the clock, year-round.

In this role, you will receive an educational, challenging, and enjoyable job with a thorough introduction, training, and guidance to help you get into the work in the best way. The training lasts about 6 months and includes both practical and theoretical components.

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In this recruitment, web-based tests are used as part of the selection process.

Preliminary Timeline:

If you proceed in the process, we will send out tests on March 18

Interviews will be conducted during week 16

To succeed in this role, you should have good analytical skills, meaning you can easily analyze the causes of an event and quickly find a solution. The role requires adaptability as conditions can change rapidly, and you need to be able to reprioritize at short notice. Your communication skills are one of your strengths - you express yourself clearly and professionally, both verbally and in writing, and adapt your communication to the audience and situation. You focus on the safety of road users and employees, ensuring that decisions and actions are taken with security and preventive risk assessment. In addition, you need to have good collaboration skills as you will be working in an environment where you collaborate internally and with external parties.

You are motivated by active employee engagement where you responsibly take charge of your tasks while being aware of how you are part of and contribute to the whole by collaborating with others.

We are looking for someone who:

• has completed high school education or equivalent education
• has good ability and recent experience in using computers and various systems to facilitate work tasks
• has good knowledge of Swedish in speech and writing
• can and wants to work shifts that include daytime, evening, night, and weekend work
• has a driver's license for a passenger car

It is advantageous if you have work experience:

• from an operational environment - for example, from traffic management, operations management, or alarm center or equivalent
• of working shifts

The questions you will need to answer when submitting your application will form the basis for the first selection we make. Unless stated otherwise in the ad, we would like you to attach your CV. We have stopped requesting a cover letter as we do not consider it part of the selection material. If you have protected personal information, please contact the responsible manager for recruitment so that your application is handled according to special procedures. You can find the name and contact information for the manager in the ad.

Within Traffic, you work at the center of events to make our transport system function for all of Sweden's thousands of travelers - around the clock, year-round. We plan, lead, and monitor traffic on 98,500 km of state roads and 14,200 km of state railways. Our task is to ensure that the roads are passable, that trains arrive on time, and that traffic information is current.

At the Swedish Transport Administration, we work to bring Sweden closer. We believe that a combination of different experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives is the best foundation for building a workplace free from discrimination and an environment where everyone thrives and does their best. We believe in diversity where the common denominator is reliability, commitment, and courage. Because that is how we best represent our society.