Do you want to work with animal welfare and food safety?

Do you want to work with animal welfare and food safety, supported by competent and helpful colleagues? Do you want an employer that invests in sustainable employment and offers secure, favorable working conditions? Welcome to the role of official veterinarian at the Swedish Food Agency!

A sustainable employment

The Swedish Food Agency actively works to offer all employees sustainable employment. We provide you with a good introduction when you start with us, and we offer secure working conditions and good 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 veterinarian at the Swedish Food Agency, you have an independent job, but in difficult decisions and situations, your knowledgeable colleagues are just a call away. Here you become part of a team where we help and support each other in our daily work. Together we make a difference!

A socially important mission

As an official veterinarian, you contribute to Sweden having good animal welfare and safe food. In your work, you are responsible for the inspection of live animals and post-slaughter inspection. You work to detect any deficiencies in animal welfare by reviewing the animals coming to the slaughterhouse and how the company's employees handle the animals. You ensure that the animals are healthy at both individual and herd levels, and assess whether the meat after slaughter can be approved as food.

As an authority representative, you have an important mission towards the entrepreneur. You have a control function but should also act as support and facilitate for the entrepreneur to do the right thing. You do this by informing about what good animal welfare means, about the animals' needs and species-specific characteristics, and by helping to create an understanding of hygiene and food safety in food production.

Team Gotland

You will belong to Team Gotland and be based in Visby. Here you will work alongside seven engaged and friendly colleagues, both official veterinarians and food inspectors. Since we are a small team, it is required, but we also see it as a given, that we selflessly help and support each other daily in the issues and tasks that need to be addressed. We have a family atmosphere where coffee breaks together are important, and we constantly learn from each other in our work. Travel is included in connection with inspection assignments and meetings within the team. It may be relevant to work in another location within the unit.

The Swedish Food Agency actively works with team development and has many employee benefits; wellness and additional vacation days are some of these.

Your competencies

To be able to work as an official veterinarian with us, you must have a Swedish veterinary license, or a veterinary license from another country that has been approved by the Swedish Board of Agriculture for professional practice in Sweden.

You have recent experience of working as an official veterinarian for at least six months. You should also have a B driver's license, good knowledge of Swedish, and be able to understand and communicate in English. Good administrative skills and strong written Swedish skills are also highly valued for this position.

As a person, you need to be flexible, punctual, efficient, and able to make well-founded decisions and initiatives. You have high personal maturity with the ability to reflect on your own strengths and areas for development, and can see and contribute to the whole. You dare to make the decisions required in consultation with your colleagues and manager. You have good collaboration skills and help selflessly where needed. You stay updated on the latest in your field of knowledge and are happy to share your knowledge and experience. At the same time, you are open to learning from others. It is together with your 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, while being confident in your authority role. We will place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Welcome to contact us

The application deadline is April 12, 2026. You apply via the job advertisement on Available Jobs (livsmedelsverket.se)

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact the recruiting team manager Mathilda Wickman. The representative for Saco-S is Chong Lama Sherpa and for ST Tomas Edvardsson, all can be reached via our switchboard, tel. 018-17 55 00.

More information about the position

Employment form: Temporary position, August 2026 – December 2027

Scope: Full-time

Start date: August 1 or by agreement

Organizational affiliation: Department of Food Control / Unit for Food Control in Central Sweden

Location: Visby

Diary number: 2026/01086

Before the interview

Veterinary license, relevant grades, and ID documents supporting your application should be brought to the interview if applicable. We will also ask for references.

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.