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Company Description

Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is Vattenfall's electricity grid business and one of Sweden's largest grid companies. We are responsible for a society-critical infrastructure that distributes electricity to more than 900,000 businesses and households. As an employee with us, you contribute every day to making society function and ensuring a secure electricity supply for future generations. Together, we are building the electricity grid of the future and enabling the transition to a sustainable society. Read more about what it is like to work here.

About the Role

Do you want a meaningful job where you can make a real difference for both society and the energy transition? With us, you are part of a socially vital operation with exciting projects, cutting-edge technology, and colleagues who value each other.

We are now looking for you to take a key role in shaping the future of maintenance operations as Head of Department for Technology and Control Facilities.

We are facing one of Vattenfall Eldistribution's largest initiatives ever – a historic effort to build a stronger, more resilient, and fully independent capability in maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair. In a time when the external environment demands higher levels of robustness and durability, we are taking decisive steps to secure an electricity grid that withstands difficult conditions and delivers when it is needed most.

Responsibilities and Duties

As Head of Department for Technology and Control Facilities, you are a key figure in this development. You will lead a growing department with approximately 50 employees and two to three experienced managers reporting directly to you. Together, you will build an organization characterized by engagement, security, and pride, where safety is always our guiding star – in a risky environment, we take care of each other and create security together.

This is a mission for you who want to combine strategic leadership with proximity to daily operational activities. In the near future, much will be about building the team – creating structure, direction, and common ways of working that strengthen both capacity and competence. You work with a solution focus and drive the development of our processes, ways of working, and practical execution, always with safety and quality in focus.

In this role, you are responsible for, among other things:

• Leading, coaching, and developing your management team and ensuring the organization has the right capabilities and competence over time, as well as being active in the unit's management group.
• Driving the development of work processes, execution, and ways of working with a focus on improvements, efficiency, and safe operation of our facilities.
• Being responsible for budget, forecasting, and follow-up.
• Ensuring good communication and collaboration both internally and externally.
• Contributing to a high standard in facility maintenance and establishing robust routines for safety and quality.

The role is central to our continued build-up of an independent maintenance capability where you drive development through participation, clear direction, and a strong focus on collaboration.

Requirements Specification

We place great emphasis on your personal qualities and are looking for you who are a secure, communicative, and development-oriented leader who creates engagement, direction, and collaboration through others. You have experience leading teams in operationally complex businesses and are used to building ways of working, structure, and culture in organizations that are growing and changing.

We are looking for you who have experience of:

• Driving improvement work and developing ways of working and culture.
• Working in a structured manner with planning, budget, and follow-up.
• Creating trust, security, and clarity in change processes.
• Building strong teams and leading through participation.

We expect you to have an academic education and/or several years of experience in a leading position with responsibility for personnel and operations. You communicate fluently in Swedish and English and have a B driver's license as business travel occurs. Leadership experience and the ability to develop both individuals and the business are considered meritorious.

Additional Information

We offer an exciting workday and a good work-life balance at an attractive workplace with good opportunities for development. We work in a safe and motivating work environment, with a strong and positive culture characterized by care for everyone. To ensure you thrive, we offer opportunities for continuous learning, good working conditions, and a wide range of employee benefits. Read more about our benefits here.

Location

Luleå, Umeå, Uppsala, Västerås, Solna, Linköping, Motala, or Trollhättan.

For more information about the position, contact the hiring manager Dick Larsson, [email protected]. For questions about the recruitment process, contact the recruiter Johanna Sperling, [email protected].

Union representatives for this position are Christian Ericsson (Ledarna), Anne-Marie Sjöbohm (Akademikerna), Jan-Olof Eriksson (Unionen), Ulf Tengman (SEKO). All contact persons can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard 08-739 50 00.

Welcome to apply by April 19, 2026! We do not accept cover letters in the application. You apply quickly and easily by answering selection questions and attaching your CV. We only accept applications via our website. Selection and interviews take place after the application deadline. Tests will be part of this recruitment process.

Working at Vattenfall means working with society-critical infrastructure. Therefore, many of our positions are security-classified, and you may be subject to wartime placement. If this position is security-classified, a security clearance will be conducted before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act. Any wartime placement will occur with support from the employment contract and the Total Defense Act.

At Vattenfall, we value being active, positive, open, and safety-conscious. We seek employees who share our vision and can contribute to strengthening our corporate culture. We are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and attractive company and strive to be good role models regarding diversity.