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Company Description

Vattenfall is one of Europe's largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. The Vattenfall Group employs approximately 21,000 people. We have electrified industries, delivered energy to homes, and transformed lives through innovation for over a hundred years.

Vattenfall Heat is a European supplier of electricity, heat, and cooling with operations that help our customers transition to a fossil-free life. We are just over four thousand employees delivering district heating, district cooling, and steam to industries, property owners, and individuals in four countries with our headquarters in Solna.

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 approximately 200,000 Swedish households as well as 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.

Read more: Come into the warmth - Discover district heating | Vattenfall

About the Role

Vattenfall Heat is now looking for a new leader who wants to influence tomorrow's climate-smart society and drive development and digitalization forward.

About the Role

Metering and Customer Solutions is tasked with providing customers and our own operations with data on the consumption of heat, cooling, and steam from our customers across all networks within Vattenfall Heat Sweden. The group is responsible for the entire metering process, which includes installation services, troubleshooting, and meter revisions, as well as customer-facing services such as installation services, maintenance, troubleshooting, and technical support.

We are looking for someone who wants to lead the group in the ongoing transformation within digitalization, new customer offerings, and a changing energy market. An engaged leadership close to your employees is one of your most important tasks, along with active participation in the development of new products and services related to our value proposition to customers.

Responsibilities and Tasks

• Lead and develop a team of 10 employees located in our district heating areas of Uppsala, Haninge, and Nyköping
• Develop the operations of the group in the short and long term
• Work environment responsibility and budget responsibility for operational costs and investments
• Collaborate and build relationships with stakeholders inside and outside the company to achieve the group's own and the business's overall goals
• Responsible for competence development and staffing

Requirements

Your Profile

We prefer that you have:

• Previous leadership experience as a manager, team leader, or project manager.
• Master's degree in engineering, bachelor's degree in engineering, or equivalent technical education.
• Good ability and experience in process-oriented work, improvement work, and preferably change management.
• You have a B driver's license.

As a person, you are motivated to develop both people and working methods and have the ability to inspire and create engagement among your employees. Furthermore, you have a good ability to build trust and collaborate with others to achieve results. You also have the ability to lead the business through change and uncertain conditions and to quickly adapt when new requirements arise.

Additional Information

We Offer

In addition to being part of shaping the future smart energy society, we offer you a developing and varied job with many points of contact. For us at Vattenfall, it is important that work and private life have a good balance, which is why we offer flexibility in work and the possibility to work from home when needed. We also have a number of other employee benefits such as reduced working hours, favorable pension agreements, parental leave supplements, and more. Read more about our benefits here.

Location: Uppsala, alternatively Stockholm. As a manager, you are expected to be on-site at least 3 days/week at the office in Uppsala.

Contact

For more information about the position, please contact Karolina Odeblad, [email protected]. For information about the recruitment process, please contact recruiter Cecilia Wijkman, [email protected].

Union Representatives are Stefan Andersson - Akademikerna, Kjell Karlsson - Ledarna, Jan Svensson - SEKO, and Patrik Nenzén - Unionen. You can reach them via Vattenfall's switchboard, 08 739 50 00.

Please submit your application, CV only, by March 20, 2026. Selection and interviews are ongoing, so do not wait to submit your application.

We are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and appealing company and strive to be good role models when it comes to 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.

Working within Vattenfall Heat means working with critical infrastructure. Therefore, many of our services are security classified. If this position is security classified, a security clearance will be conducted before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act.