Property Engineer with Operational Responsibility at Stockholm City Cemetery Administration

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. We are now looking for someone who wants to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

The Stockholm Cemetery Administration is responsible for burial services in Stockholm. The administration conducts burial and service operations with high ethical standards and is responsible for 12 cemeteries, 13 chapels, one ceremony building, and 2 crematoria with significant cultural-historical values.

We are looking for a driven property engineer who wants to strengthen our property technical competence and join us on our journey forward. We have several buildings of different functions and sizes to manage. Among our properties are everything from crematoria, staff buildings to culturally valuable chapels and the World Heritage Site Skogskyrkogården.

Welcome to us!

The Building and Landscape Unit is a team consisting of a unit manager, two property engineers, and property technicians. Other competencies within the unit include landscape architects, landscape engineers, tree specialists/arborists, and building conservators. The unit's office is located at Palmfelts Center near Globen.

A major ongoing project at the administration is the restoration of the Skogskrematorium at Skogskyrkogården. The Skogskrematorium, with three chapels and a monument hall, is the largest building at Skogskyrkogården. Skogskyrkogården is also listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. New technology and modern functions will be carefully installed in a culturally sensitive environment.

We offer an exciting assignment in a unique environment with varied tasks under significant personal responsibility. With us, we care about a good working environment and ensuring our employees feel involved. We are a competent, unpretentious, positive team that values a good atmosphere, sharing knowledge, and supporting each other.

As an employee of the City of Stockholm, you have access to benefits such as flexible working hours, wellness benefits, training initiatives, and seminars on current operational issues, as well as the opportunity to exchange vacation day supplements for extra time off.

If you want to be part of this context and help develop our operations, you are warmly welcome to apply for the advertised position as a property engineer.

Job Content and Responsibilities

As a property engineer with us, you have a central role in developing and managing our property portfolio and improving our working methods. You will work strategically with maintenance planning and budget work, drive maintenance and investment projects, develop property operations, initiate energy-saving measures, and be the administration's technical contact with the city regarding energy issues.

You will collaborate with other engineers in the department, support property technicians in ongoing property operations, and work closely with colleagues such as landscape architects, building conservators, and arborists. There are great opportunities to influence the group's working methods in a forward-moving property management with high ambitions.

Your responsibilities include:

planning, coordinating property maintenance, executing ongoing technical management within HVAC, refrigeration technology, electrical and energy technology, and property automation
preparing materials for operational budgets, monitoring energy consumption, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements regarding electrical responsibility, fire protection, occupational safety, etc.
planning investments and investment budgets as well as project management of investment and maintenance projects
reviewing quotes/tenders and procurement/follow-up of framework contractors

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who:

is a trained engineer or has relevant vocational training. Alternatively, you have acquired equivalent competence through several years of experience in a similar role
has current experience from a similar role
experience in control and regulation technology
experience in contract law
has experience in monitoring regulatory requirements regarding properties and installations
experience in maintenance planning
experience in project management within construction and installation
experience in procurement and purchasing of contracts, services, and goods.
has a driver's license (B)
has a good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both verbally and in writing

Desirable Experiences

experience in municipal/public administration.
knowledge and application of LOU (Public Procurement Act).
interest in cultural-historical buildings and environments, as well as experience in restoration and maintenance of buildings with cultural-historical value.

In the recruitment process, we place great emphasis on personal suitability, motivation for the position, and the following personal abilities.

You are flexible and enjoy varied tasks and are used to having multiple ongoing projects simultaneously. In the work with technology and management within burial services, unexpected situations always arise in sensitive operations, which requires good collaboration skills, great patience, and a solution-oriented approach. Last but not least, an economic awareness and understanding of costs, revenues, and efficiency from a property economic perspective is required.

Other

The work involves travel within the City of Stockholm. We see diversity as enriching and welcome all applicants. The City of Stockholm works with competence-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competence and thus counteracting discrimination.

We recruit without a personal letter in this recruitment to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences required for this role. In assessing your application, we will only consider your CV and a number of questions you will need to answer when applying for the position. We ask that you respond concretely and succinctly to the questions and that there is a clear connection between your answers and your CV.