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Department Manager – Cleaning and Operational Custodial Services, Karlskrona Municipality

Do you want to lead a socially important operation in Karlskrona alongside dedicated colleagues who contribute every day to functioning schools, preschools, and facilities? Do you want to drive development and change? Then this role as Department Manager for cleaning and operational custodial services within Karlskrona Municipality may be the perfect fit for you.

About the Operations and Service Administration
At the Operations and Service Administration, we create a safe, sustainable, and well-functioning daily life for residents, businesses, and visitors. We employ dedicated staff across a wide range of areas, from cleaning and services to IT and digitalization, water and sewage (VA), harbor operations, customer service, and catering. We are a workplace characterized by collaboration, responsibility, and pride. Here, technology, service, and development meet – and whether you work with digital solutions, water and sewage, harbor issues, meal services, or in one of our service functions, you are an essential part of the municipality's pulse. As part of our team, you will enjoy a varied day-to-day, close to the operations, where your ideas and engagement make a difference.

About the Job
As Department Manager for cleaning and operational custodial services, you have overall responsibility for leading, directing, and developing operations in the municipality's premises, primarily within schools, preschools, and other operational properties. The assignment includes both cleaning and operational services performed by operational custodians and is crucial for creating safe, functional, and well-functioning environments for the municipality's operations.
You are part of the Operations and Service Administration's management group and have a clear strategic assignment to contribute to the administration's collective governance, development, and change management.
In the role of Department Manager, you are responsible for:
• Leading and developing operations based on political goals, assignments, and given financial frameworks
• Having responsibility for personnel, work environment, and budget
• Ensuring quality, efficiency, and equivalent service
• Leading and driving change management through a clear and structured process-based approach
• Using digitalization and developed working methods as tools to streamline, ensure quality, and modernize operations
• Working systematically with follow-up, analysis, and continuous improvement
• Ensuring good collaboration with other administrations, managers, and operations
• Actively contributing to the joint development of the Operations and Service Administration within the management group

About You
As a leader, you are confident, clear, and structured with the ability to lead through change. You have a strategic perspective but are simultaneously close to the operations and daily life. You create engagement, build trust, and have the ability to drive development through clear processes, dialogue, and participation. You view digitalization as a natural support in change management and have the ability to translate ideas and decisions into actual benefits for the operations.
Requirements:
• Relevant academic education or other education/experience deemed equivalent by the employer
• Several years of experience in a managerial or leading position
• Documented experience in change management and operational development
• Experience with personnel, work environment, and budget responsibility
• Good understanding of process work and governance in complex organizations
• Good ability to express yourself verbally and in writing in Swedish
• Class B driver's license
Merits:
• Experience from public sector or politically governed organizations is an asset
• Experience working within cleaning and/or operational custodial services is an asset
We place great importance on personal qualities.

For Your Information
The position is a permanent full-time employment with Karlskrona Municipality, located in Karlskrona. Start date is negotiable.

About Karlskrona Municipality
Karlskrona is a municipality with strong future optimism and a growing population. Here, a unique World Heritage environment is combined with modern operations and development ambitions. Approximately 6,000 employees work in the municipality, and we offer good benefits, such as extra vacation days from a certain age, wellness contributions, free swimming in our swimming pools, and an attractive occupational pension agreement.

Application
In this recruitment, Karlskrona Municipality is collaborating with Adecco.
The application deadline is April 22nd, but we encourage you to apply today as we conduct a rolling selection process.
If you have questions about the position or the recruitment process, you are warmly welcome to contact the responsible recruitment consultant, Carina Falck, at [email protected] or by phone at 0736-847245.

We welcome you if you want to contribute to a Karlskrona that is welcoming, safe, and sustainable – now and in the future.