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Do you want to work with animal welfare and food safety, supported by competent and helpful colleagues? Do you want an employer that invests in sustainable employment and offers secure, favorable working conditions? Welcome to the role of Official Veterinarian at the Swedish Food Agency!

A sustainable employment

The Swedish Food Agency actively works to offer all employees a sustainable employment. We provide a good introduction when you start with us and offer secure working conditions. We want you to feel that it is enjoyable to go to work and that what you do is important. As an Official Veterinarian, you contribute to Sweden having good animal welfare and safe food.

As a veterinarian at the Swedish Food Agency, you have independent work, but when facing difficult decisions and situations, your knowledgeable colleagues are just a call away. Here you become part of a team where we help and support each other in daily work. Together we make a difference!

A socially important mission

As an Official Veterinarian, you contribute to Sweden having good animal welfare and safe food. In your work, you are responsible for live animal inspections and post-mortem inspections. You work to identify any deficiencies in animal welfare by examining the animals arriving at the slaughterhouse and how the company's employees handle the animals. You ensure that the animals are healthy at both the individual and flock level, and assess whether the meat from the animals can be approved as food. You will work primarily within slaughter control, but some controls, especially within animal welfare and export control, may occur.

As a public authority official, you have an important mission towards the entrepreneur. You have a control function, but you must also act as support and facilitate for the entrepreneur to do the right thing. You do this by informing about what good animal welfare entails, the animals' needs and species-specific characteristics, and by helping to create an understanding of hygiene and food safety in food production. The role also includes authority reporting, administration, and a fair amount of car travel.

About the team

You will belong to the West Scania and Halland team with your workplace in Trelleborg. Here you work together with engaged and pleasant colleagues, both official veterinarians and food controllers. We are a cheerful and open-hearted group that takes advantage of our individual and common strengths.

The team's facilities, which mainly consist of a large pig slaughterhouse and a medium-sized cattle and sheep slaughterhouse, as well as several smaller slaughterhouses and game handling facilities, are located from Trelleborg in the south to Kungsbacka in the north. The team has close cooperation with the poultry team and KLF (control of food businesses) during slaughter and export control.

Your competencies

To work as an Official Veterinarian with us, you must have a Swedish veterinary license or a veterinary license from another country approved by the Swedish Board of Agriculture for professional practice in Sweden. You must also have a B driver's license, good knowledge of Swedish, and be able to understand and communicate in English. Good administrative skills and IT knowledge are also highly valued for this position. Experience from working with export control is meritorious.

As a person, you need to be unpretentious, flexible, punctual, efficient, and able to make well-founded decisions and initiatives on your own. You have high personal maturity with the ability to reflect on your own strengths and areas for development, and you can see and contribute to the whole. You dare to make the decisions required in consultation with your colleagues and manager. You have good cooperation skills and help unpretentiously where needed. You keep yourself updated on the latest within your field of knowledge and are happy to share your knowledge and experience, while also being open to learning from others. It is together with your colleagues that you succeed and develop! Conversations in meetings with entrepreneurs and in contact with other stakeholders are also part of the work, which requires that you are clear, professional, and receptive in your communication. We will place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Welcome to contact us

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact the recruiting team leader Charlotta Wisbrant. Representatives for Saco-S are Nora Arifali and for ST Fredrik Olsson. All can be reached via our switchboard, tel. 018-17 55 00.

The last day for applications is 2026-05-24. Apply via the job advertisement at https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/om-oss/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb (https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/om-oss/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb), mark the application with the case number 2026/01829. The application must be written in Swedish.

More information about the position

Employment type: Special fixed-term employment until 2026-12-31, full-time

Start date: As soon as possible, according to agreement

Organizational affiliation: The Unit for Food Control in Southern Sweden

Workplace: Trelleborg

Before the interview

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

About the Swedish Food Agency

The Swedish Food Agency works to ensure that the 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 about 700 employees, of which over 390 are in Uppsala and another approx. 300 who work with food control out in the country.