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As a Spare Parts Technician at the Swedish Armed Forces, you will be a vital part of a successful team within a rapidly growing agency. Together with competent and dedicated colleagues, you will take on responsibility, development, and challenges. All of this with an employer that encourages work-life balance and good health.

Main Responsibilities

As a Spare Parts Technician, you have an important role where you will be responsible for supplying our workshop with spare parts. You will ensure that consumables are available in sufficient quantities and pick up spare parts from the local area when needed. You will generally service the workshop to meet its needs, ensuring work proceeds efficiently. The role also includes maintaining order in chemical cabinets and oil storage areas, ensuring they are tidy and properly documented.

You will also be responsible for maintaining our environmental station. This involves ensuring correct handling and classification of waste, as well as ensuring it is managed in an environmentally sound manner. You must order transport in good time to comply with permit conditions under the Environmental Code and not exceed allowed waste quantities. You are responsible for reporting data on hazardous waste and the volume produced.

What We Offer

The Swedish Armed Forces have a strong value base built on openness, results, and responsibility. The operations offer great variety and complexity, as well as high security requirements, which means good opportunities for development and internal career mobility. Our employees enjoy a number of different benefits, including:

• Competence development based on operational needs and your career goals
• Three hours of exercise per week during working hours, with possible reimbursement for sports clothes and start fees
• Good work-life balance with flexible working hours and 28-35 days of vacation per year, depending on your age
• Salary supplement during parental leave and sick leave for children, as well as the option to exchange vacation days for extra pension contributions

Qualifications

• Complete upper secondary education (3-year high school diploma)
• Documented experience in spare parts management
• Good understanding of workshop operations
• Understanding of chemical handling
• Background in handling and maintaining documentation, with a strong sense of systematics and structure
• Category B driver's license
• Forklift license

Merits

• Completed GMU (General Military Training) or other military education
• Previous experience working within the Swedish Armed Forces' spare parts structure
• Experience in waste management through sorting, packaging, labeling, etc.
• Worked with waste codes, classification, and assessment of how waste should be handled
• Accustomed to working with Safety Data Sheets and understanding of chemical handling
• Previous experience working with risk analyses
• Good knowledge of the Office package
• Category C driver's license

Personal Attributes

To succeed in this role, you need to be a collaborative person who finds solutions through a goal-oriented focus on the common objective, free from hierarchy. A good service mindset contributes to the workshop being run in the best way and provides good support to colleagues to do the right thing. You need to be a structured person who independently follows processes, organizes, and plans work well. Great importance will be placed on personal suitability.

Other Information

The position is a permanent civil service appointment. For those not already employed by the Swedish Armed Forces, it begins with a 6-month probationary period. Employment can start as soon as possible or as agreed.

The position is full-time with regular working hours Monday-Friday with flexible time arrangements. Irregular working hours and duty during inconvenient times may occur, as well as travel for work. The position is located in Örebro.

Application

Please submit your application by 2026-06-07. Your application must include a CV and a cover letter explaining why you are suitable for the position. To learn more about the recruitment process, contact HR Generalist Simone Aro at [email protected]

Applications for this position will only be accepted via the Swedish Armed Forces' website.

--------------------------------------------------------Information about the Swedish Armed Forces and the recruiting unit:The Swedish Armed Forces Telecommunications and Information Systems Unit (FMTIS) ensures the Swedish Armed Forces' ability to communicate and command - 24/7, year-round. The unit has overall responsibility for the Swedish Armed Forces' technical command system, which supports military operations at sea, on land, and in the air – in Sweden and abroad. The unit has nearly 2,000 employees at more than 32 locations across the country. Read more at https://jobb.forsvarsmakten.se/fmtis (https://jobb.forsvarsmakten.se/fmtis) Employment with us involves placement in a security class. Swedish citizenship is usually required. A security investigation with register check will be conducted prior to employment according to Chapter 3 of the Security Protection Act. Employment entails an obligation to be war-placed and to serve abroad. The meaning of this varies depending on the type of position. A CV and cover letter must be attached to the application for employment. If you proceed in the employment process, certified copies of grades and certificates must always be presented. Calls from external recruitment agencies and salespeople are declined.