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Organization Description

Diversity, efficiency, innovation, and attractiveness!

The municipality's core values, MENA (Mångfald, Effektivitet, Nyskapande, Attraktivitet - Diversity, Efficiency, Innovation, Attractiveness), are a natural part of your leadership style.

We are looking for a positive, structured, and self-motivated person who has the ability to collaborate and appreciates working in a team. We place great emphasis on leadership qualities and that you are the right person for the team you will join. Qualities we value are that you are receptive and have the ability to create good trust and a collaborative climate.

We are expanding with Deputy Strength Leaders in our 4 shift teams. At Gällivare Rescue Service, you work as an important player in a small organization. We have a large geographical area to manage, ranging from mines to mountains and extensive mountain forests. Most of the municipality's inhabitants live in Gällivare town, where our full-time station is also located. In our villages, we have five rescue stations that help us by being first on the scene and able to provide initial assistance.

We handle approximately 300 alarms per year.

We collaborate with our neighboring municipalities and industrial fire brigades in the area.

Working in Gällivare Municipality is characterized by joy in work, engagement, and respect for the equal value of all people. At Gällivare Rescue Service, it is obvious that everyone should feel accepted and enjoy working here, regardless of origin and gender.

Gällivare Rescue Service works to be an attractive workplace where employees are given the opportunity for personal development.

Here you can read more about the municipality and what we can offer you!

Strength Leader Gällivare Municipality

As a Deputy Strength Leader, you are a supervisor for staff both in daily work and operationally. You work closely with the regular Strength Leader on the shift team. Together you plan and are responsible for the daily work at the station, as well as other preventive and operational work.

Being a Strength Leader involves leading and planning your and the group's work based on the entire rescue service's mission, which means that you and your staff will work with both accident prevention and damage mitigation tasks.

You are independently responsible for your own cases/tasks, but the work also presupposes close collaboration with colleagues and other authorities around you.

The Rescue Service in Gällivare Municipality is under development, and you will therefore have a natural part in the work of improving and developing processes, routines, and working methods in the operation. You are expected to have the ambition and desire to develop the operation in accordance with the municipality's operational goals together with the unit manager.

In the role of Strength Leader, you also have contact with Gällivare's residents, businesses, other authorities, and similar.

We are looking for a positive, structured, and self-motivated person who has the ability to collaborate and appreciates working in a team. We place great emphasis on leadership qualities and that you are the right person for the team you will join. Qualities we value are that you are receptive and have the ability to create good trust and a collaborative climate.

You should have a few years of experience from work within the rescue service.

We expect that you have good insight into the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Act and other laws and regulations that govern and affect the rescue service's work.

We assume that you have good computer skills in commonly used programs and are able to express yourself well in speech and writing, for example, to train own staff and citizens in society. You are independent, responsible, and can communicate in both speech and writing in a trustworthy manner.

You should have the desire to help develop the organization forward.

Since the rescue service is in the midst of intensive change work and there are great challenges in the work, we place great emphasis on you being flexible and open to change. We also see it as positive if you have experience working in a politically governed organization.

To thrive in the role of Strength Leader, you need to have the ability to make well-founded decisions yourself based on the organization's values and goals. It is important that you have a broad perspective and can see the whole picture in your way of working.

As a Deputy Strength Leader, you should also be able to function as a firefighter and in the role of smoke diving leader.

Before the employment begins, a suitability test will be conducted, and you must have a passed medical examination. To receive an employment, you must be approved as a smoke diver according to the Swedish Work Environment Authority's regulations.

Qualifications

• Passed and completed SMO, or GRIB together with experience of operational rescue service or older education that we assess is equivalent. Driver's license at least C.
• LK1 Strength Leader or older equivalent.
• Meet the requirements for smoke and chemical diving.
• Supervision A with a passing grade.
• Passed treadmill test according to AFS 2007:7 (not older than 3 months) attached to application.
• Good swimming ability, at least Gold Diver certificate attached to application.
• Driver's license BC.
• Good teamwork skills.
• Good administrative skills and computer literacy.
• You are engaged, driven, and responsible.

Meritorious:

• LK2 Incident Commander or older equivalent.
• Snowmobile license.
• CPR Instructor.
• Manager or leadership experience.

Other:

Great importance is attached to personal suitability.

Working Hours/Duration

Full-time, permanent.

Probation period: 6 months applies.

Salary

Monthly salary, we apply individual salary setting – please state salary expectations in the application.

Start Date / Application

To your application, we want a CV and a cover letter.

We also want a treadmill test (not older than 3 months), certificate on Gold Diver with a passing result, and certificate on completed SMO and Supervision A training.

Original documents will be provided upon request.

Interviews may take place on an ongoing basis.

Start date: As soon as possible or by agreement. Introduction starts 2026-09-14.

Last day for applications: 2026-08-16.

Number of positions: 3.

Information

Unit Manager, Emma Franz, 0970-818340, [email protected]

Union Representatives

Union organization, contact details Kommunal, tel: 010-4429919, mailto:[email protected]

Other

Gällivare Municipality offers you:

• Wellness benefit in the form of strength training/group training/Dundret (Full-time, fixed-term, longer term).
• Wellness hour (full-time, fixed-term, longer term).
• Participate in the workplace's Trivselpeng (full-time and fixed-term, longer term).
• Membership in GKFF (Gällivare Municipality's Leisure Association) (all employees).
• Opportunity for holiday exchange (not holiday service, Pan, Bea, not earned full holiday during the year).

We warmly welcome your application!