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A Sustainable Employment

The Swedish Food Agency works actively to offer all employees a sustainable employment. We provide a good introduction when you start with us and offer secure working conditions and good benefits. Wellness allowances, subsidized massages, a generous number of vacation days, and daytime work without on-call, evening, or weekend duties are some of these. We want you to feel that it is enjoyable to go to work and that what you do is important. As a food inspector, you contribute to Sweden having good animal welfare and safe food. Here you become part of a team where we help and support each other in our daily work. Together we make a difference!

A Societally Important Mission

At the Swedish Food Agency, we all work to ensure that the food sold and consumed in Sweden is safe. As a food inspector, you work within our operational food control and contribute to the Agency's mission by inspecting animals destined for slaughter to become food. Your responsibility is to inspect carcasses after slaughter and assess whether the meat can be approved as food or should be further examined by an official veterinarian. In your work, you will make good use of your knowledge in areas such as pathology and meat inspection. In the role of food inspector, you have good opportunities to develop your skills as a public authority official, while also learning a great deal about food production. Together with your team, you will continuously develop in matters concerning the entire food chain.

Team Gotland

You will belong to Team Gotland and be based in Visby. Here you will work together with seven engaged and pleasant colleagues, both official veterinarians and food inspectors. Since we are a small team, it is required, but we also see it as a matter of course, that we help and support each other daily without hierarchy in the questions and tasks that need to be handled. We have a family-like atmosphere where coffee breaks together are important, and we constantly learn from each other in our work. Travel is included in connection with control assignments and meetings within the team. Work at other locations within the unit may also become relevant.

The Swedish Food Agency works actively with team development and offers many employee benefits; wellness activities and extra vacation days are some of these.

Your Qualifications

You must have the eligibility to work as a food inspector. You are eligible if you:

• Have completed the Swedish Food Agency's internal training to become a food inspector.
• Are a trained veterinarian but lack Swedish veterinary licensure.
• Have completed the third year of the Swedish veterinary education with a pass in the food safety course.

For the role, it is required that you have good knowledge of Swedish in both speech and writing, so that you can understand and perform work tasks based on written instructions. You also need to understand and be understood in English. Additionally, you need to have the ability to make quick decisions. Experience from working as a slaughterhouse worker is meritorious.

Your Personal Attributes

As a person, you should be punctual, efficient, and able to follow instructions. You are communicative and happy to share your knowledge and experience, and you are also eager to learn more from your colleagues. Good teamwork skills are a requirement for the position, as it is together with your team that you succeed and develop. You also adapt easily to changed circumstances. We will place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Welcome to Contact Us

The last day for applications is 2026-06-07. Apply via the job advertisement on livsmedelsverket.se/ledigajobb.

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact Team Leader Mathilda Wickman. Representative for Saco-S is Fabio Rostirolla and for ST Ronny Holmqvist. All can be reached via our switchboard, tel. 018-17 55 00.

More Information About the Position

Location: Visby

Employment Type: Fixed-term contract, full-time, until August 2027.

Start Date: August 2026 or by agreement

Organizational Affiliation: Division for Food Control / Unit for Food Control in Central Sweden

Before the Interview

Grades/certificates and ID documents supporting your application should be brought to a potential interview. We will also request references.

About the Swedish Food Agency

The Swedish Food Agency works to ensure that food produced, sold, and served in Sweden is safe and honest, for a society where it is easy for people to eat in a healthy and sustainable way, and for a secure food and drinking water supply in everyday life and crisis. Our tools are knowledge, advice, regulations, and control. In total, we have approximately 700 employees, of whom over 390 are in Uppsala and another approx. 300 work with food control out in the country.