Building Permit Case Worker for Jokkmokk Municipality

Jokkmokk is a municipality with its sights set on the future!

We are a place where community and responsibility are at the center, where your skills and ideas can help shape the path forward. If you value a high quality of life with close proximity to both nature and community, Jokkmokk offers a rich cultural life and affordable leisure opportunities to enjoy.

Welcome to a municipality that combines industriousness and helpfulness – here you can be part of creating something new.

About the Role

As our current building permit case worker moves on to new assignments, we are looking for you who want to join us on our journey forward.

We are a municipality that has everything it takes to succeed. Short decision-making paths, collaboration across operational boundaries, and the courage to dare. Our ambitions give you the opportunity to grow and create a positive lifestyle, provided you have your own drive. Even if the workload can be heavy at times, we are a department with good cohesion where we are close to laughter and have an open-door policy. The Community Planning Office consists of several different units, including environmental inspectors, building permit case workers, and administrators for alcohol and housing adaptation grants.

As an employee of Jokkmokk Municipality, you will have a valuable role, and we look forward to your application.

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Job Responsibilities

As a building permit case worker, you will process applications for permits, pre-decisions, and supervision matters according to the Planning and Building Act, as well as shoreline protection dispensations and supervision according to the Environmental Code. You will act as an advisor to the public regarding building permits, often at an early stage. Service to our citizens is a major part of your duties.

The role also involves leading meetings, preparing and presenting cases to the Community Planning Committee, and participating in the overall development of the operations.

The position involves expected independent work, and many decisions are made through delegation. This means you must be structured, responsible, and confident in your assessments. You will have continuous contact with colleagues, clients, contractors, and consultants.

We work closely together and value good collaboration where we support each other in daily work, both within the team and within the administration.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are educated as a building permit case worker, building engineer, or equivalent. Experience within municipal operations at the community planning administration and experience working with LEX and EDP-Vision are meritorious.

You have a strong interest in urban planning, legislation, and design. You possess personal maturity, are stable and relationship-building, communicative, and have good pedagogical insight. You are expected to work both independently and in a group and have good teamwork skills. You are structured and see service to residents as an important part of the job.

You have a good ability to plan and drive work processes forward.

Computer literacy and the ability to express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing, are basic requirements for the job. A B-class driver's license is required.

Employment Terms

Employment Type: Permanent.
Duration: Permanent.

Jokkmokk Municipality strives for an even gender distribution as well as ethnic and cultural diversity in our operations. Knowledge of the Sami language and Sami culture is seen as an asset. Our core values aim to specify the values that should permeate all operations in Jokkmokk Municipality, where our keywords are respect, equal value, responsibility, courage, engagement, and competence.

To ensure the quality of our recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link "Apply here" and not via email or paper format.

Salary Range: The salary range for this position is between 36,000 - 43,000 SEK/month. We apply individual salary setting based on your experience and competence.

We look forward to receiving your application!

To staffing, mediation, and recruitment agencies and to you who are a salesperson:

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In this recruitment process, we work with continuous selection and interviews.