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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, advantageous working conditions? Welcome to the role of Official Veterinarian at the Swedish Food Agency!

A sustainable employment

The Swedish Food Agency works actively to offer all employees a sustainable employment. We provide you with a good introduction when you start with us, and we offer secure working conditions and good benefits. We want you to feel that it is enjoyable to come 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 conversation 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 inspection and post-mortem inspection. You work to identify any shortcomings 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 after slaughter can be approved as food.

As a public authority official, you have an important mission towards the business owner. You have a control function, but you should also act as support and facilitate for the business owner 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.

Team Gotland

You will belong to Team Gotland and be based in Visby. Here you 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 atmosphere where coffee breaks together are important and we constantly learn from each other in work. Travel is included in connection with control assignments and meetings within the team as part of the job. It may become relevant to work at other locations within the unit.

The Swedish Food Agency works actively with team development and has many employee benefits; fitness programs and extra vacation days are some of these.

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 driving license, good knowledge of Swedish, and be able to understand and communicate in English. Good administrative skills and good written Swedish are also highly valued for this position.

As a person, you need to be flexible, punctual, efficient, and able to make your own well-founded decisions and take initiative. 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 teamwork skills and help without hierarchy where needed. You keep up to date with the latest in your field of knowledge and are happy to share your knowledge and experience. At the same time, you are open to learning from others. It is together with your colleagues that you succeed and develop.

Conversations in meetings with business owners and in contact with other stakeholders are also part of the work, which requires that you are clear, professional, and responsive in your communication, while being confident in the authority role. We will place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Welcome to contact us

The last day for applications is 2026-06-14. You apply via the job posting at the Swedish Food Agency's website (https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/om-oss/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb).

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact the recruiting team manager, Mathilda Wickman. Representatives for Saco-S are Chong Lama Sherpa and for ST, Tomas Edvardsson; all can be reached via our switchboard, tel. 018-17 55 00.

More information about the position

Employment type: Fixed-term contract, August 2026 – December 2027

Scope: Full-time

Start date: August 1 or by agreement

Organizational affiliation: Food Control Department/Unit for Food Control in Middle Sweden

Location: Visby

Case number: 2026/01086

Before the interview

Veterinary license, relevant diplomas, and ID documents confirming your application are to be brought to any 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 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.