Group Leader/Foreman for Service Department in Skövde

In the service sector, you play a vital role in keeping our society running. We work with everything from property maintenance, public meals, and local care to the maintenance of streets, parks, and utility networks – here you contribute directly to creating a better everyday life for our residents. We offer a work environment that promotes development, collaboration, and innovation. Welcome to us; there is always room for more who want to make a difference!

With us, you become part of a positive, engaged, and tight-knit team with a mix of young and experienced colleagues. We work together to achieve our goals, and we strive to be at the forefront when it comes to both technology and safety.

Our working hours are Monday–Thursday 06:45–16:00, while we finish early at 13:00 on Fridays.

Why choose us?

We offer stimulating work in an organization that values community, innovation, and development. Here you have the opportunity for competence development and growth by broadening and/or deepening your professional role, while contributing to creating a better Skövde for the future.

Interested? Welcome to submit your application today!

1 position(s).

Job Responsibilities

In your role as Group Leader/Foreman, you will have varied days where you, together with the client, site manager, and project manager, review the assignment documentation. You prepare this together with your team and ensure that the practical work is carried out correctly.

The daily work includes the following:

Reviewing documentation
Technical detailed planning
Preparing estimates and schedules
Applying for various permits
Booking internal and external resources
Conducting material purchases
Synchronizing the assignment's resource needs with other ongoing projects
Collaborating with businesses and other contractors to minimize consequences for third parties
Leading those who perform the practical work
Creating cross-business planning and prioritizations together with other leaders
Ongoing follow-up and reporting against schedule and economy
Invoicing
Ongoing work with safety and continuous improvements

Throughout the entire process, you will receive support through our business systems and your colleagues.

The focus of the position will vary over time, but will include everything from building new streets, roundabouts, water reservoirs, walls, and paving, to performing both planned and emergency maintenance on the water and sewerage network. The assignments often include coordinating your own operations with other actors who co-lay pipes for vacuum waste systems, district heating, cables (HSP/LSP), street lighting, and fiber.

Qualifications

We would like you to have genuine experience from working with leadership within contracting or construction operations, or equivalent. To succeed in your assignment, you will additionally need knowledge of several of the areas listed below, but not necessarily all of them. The parts you lack, we will train you in over time.

1. Technical knowledge and professional experience

Knowledge of earthworks, excavation, pipe laying, etc.
Drawing reading
Experience working with, or leading work with, excavators, rollers, trucks, etc.

2. Leadership and planning skills

Contribute to a pleasant work climate so the whole team feels good and thrives.
Ability to lead, distribute, and follow up work on site, hold work meetings, and ensure that the right competence and resources are in place at the right time.
Ability to create and follow up on schedules, handle deviations, and coordinate with other contractors and clients.
Understanding of estimates, budgets, material orders, and logistics.

3. Regulations, directives, and safety

Knowledge of work environment plans, risk assessments, protective devices, and routines for safety rounds.
Traffic arrangement plans (TA plans).
Environment and quality.

4. Communication and documentation

Good Swedish in speech and writing is required for contact with clients, employees, subcontractors, citizens, and documentation.
Good knowledge of handling/using digital tools for work orders, digital drawings, time reports, and deviations, etc.

5. Formal merits (desirable)

Vocational education within infrastructure or water/sewerage.
Experience as a machine operator, construction worker, or similar.
Leadership experience.

6. Desirable knowledge (desirable but not required)

Setting out/Surveying.
Knowledge of AMA codes and estimation.
Industry training such as; Work on the road, EBR dig near cable, Dig safely, BAS-P/U, etc.
Knowledge within construction, fiber, and electrical fields is also desirable.

Employment type: Permanent employment.
Duration: Permanent.

Working in Skövde Municipality

In Skövde Municipality, we work with everything from care, support, and education to infrastructure, maintenance, cultural life, and growth. With us, there are hundreds of professions and 5,500 employees. The work looks different depending on which operation we work in, but all represent the same employer, Skövde Municipality, and our common mission is to be a welfare provider, societal developer, and employer. Equal, equitable, and inclusive operations are a matter of course for us.

As an employee in Skövde Municipality, you are an important player in a team that delivers services and support to our customers every day, all year round. We invest in you as an employee and offer competence development, favorable pension conditions, fitness allowances, as well as various offers and benefits.

Read more about us as an employer: https://skovde.se/naringsliv-arbete/Jobba-hos-oss/ (https://skovde.se/naringsliv-arbete/Jobba-hos-oss/)

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