Vacant job

As a veterinarian at Kronfågel, you will play a key role in ensuring good animal health, high animal welfare, and stable production throughout the entire value chain. You will work closely with our contracted growers and collaborate with colleagues in production, hatcheries, slaughterhouses, and quality assurance.

The role is characterized by proactive work, knowledge sharing, and continuous development, where you contribute to strengthening Swedish chicken production – with a focus on animal welfare, sustainability, and food safety.

Here, you will have significant room to influence, drive improvements, and put your expertise into practice.

• Provide qualified veterinary advice and support to Kronfågel's contracted chicken growers

• Work proactively and preventively on animal health, disease control, and biosecurity

• Monitor flock health, animal welfare, and production results, and initiate and drive improvement measures

• Contribute to increasing both animal welfare and productivity through data-driven and practical solutions

• Collaborate closely with growers and cross-functional teams to develop the entire production chain

• Participate in development projects and improvement initiatives within Live Operations, nationally and together with Scandi-partners

• Ensure compliance with guidelines, legal requirements, and industry standards

• Be responsible for sampling, including slaughterhouse and salmonella sampling, as well as sanitation and traceability work in connection with salmonella outbreaks

• Be responsible for maintaining the company's animal welfare program, the Campylobacter program, and overall responsibility for disease control strategies

• Share knowledge, educate, and support colleagues and growers through an accessible, generous, and feedback-oriented working style

• Licensed veterinarian (EU / Sweden)

• Experience with or a strong interest in poultry production, animal health, and preventive veterinary medicine

• Good knowledge of relevant legislation regarding animal protection and food safety

• Experience with animal welfare, audits, or certification systems is an asset

• Further education in animal welfare, behavior, or welfare assessment is highly desirable

• A clear drive to develop and improve animal welfare standards

We place great importance on your personal attributes. To succeed in this role, we look for someone who:

• Is communicative, curious, pedagogical, and generous in sharing knowledge

• Builds trust through an open and attentive working style

• Works proactively, structured, and solution-oriented

• Has the ability to analyze data and translate insights into concrete improvements

• Thrives in collaboration and actively contributes to a strong team climate

• Is committed to developing both working methods and results

• Fluent in Swedish

• Good knowledge of English

• Class B driver's license

• Location is Valla; business travel occurs on a regular basis.

APPLICATION & CONTACT Apply today! We process applications on an ongoing basis, and the position may be filled before the final application date 2026-04-30. Start date is negotiable. Candidates who best match the role will first be contacted for a brief phone screening, followed by a competency-based interview with us. For final candidates, we also conduct reference checks and background analysis.

If you have questions about the position, you are warmly welcome to contact Negar Åslund at [email protected]

We do not handle applications via email.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have decided on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact with media sales representatives, recruitment websites, and similar.