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Welcome to Forshaga Municipality!

We are approximately 1,100 employees whose shared mission is to create a great place to live, work, and thrive. In our vision "Forshaga Municipality 2040 – warmly welcome," the principles behind human rights are at the center. Here, everyone should feel welcome, safe, and included. Together, we make a difference for our residents – every day!

Forshaga Municipality is part of the Karlstad region in southern Värmland, beautifully located along the Klarälven river. Around 11,500 residents live here, close to nature, leisure activities, services, and culture. With us, you have the opportunity to live a secure life rich in experiences at your own pace. Together, we create a place with its heart in the right place to come home to!

We want to be an attractive employer where you, as an employee, thrive and feel pride, engagement, and involvement. We want to offer you development opportunities and employment conditions so that you want to stay and develop with us. As an employee, you have access to a range of different benefits for health, wellness, and leave.

Municipal Technical Services and Care is divided into four units: property, streets and parks, water and sewage, and catering. We manage the municipality's land and operational premises, clean municipal buildings, maintain streets and roads, pedestrian and cycle paths, parks, playgrounds, forests, waste management, and utility networks. We produce drinking water and treat sewage water. Within the catering unit, we prepare meals for schools, preschools, elderly care, and home help services.

Municipal Technical Services is responsible for meeting the needs of residents and other departments for services within water, sewage, road maintenance, park care, building maintenance, and waste management.

Description

Do you want to help shape the future of Forshaga?

We are now looking for a Street and Traffic Engineer who wants to contribute to the development of Forshaga Municipality. In this role, you will have a key position in the work of creating safe, attractive, and sustainable traffic environments for the municipality's residents. As a smaller municipality, we offer short decision-making paths and good opportunities to influence, meaning you can follow the work all the way from idea and planning to implementation.

With us, you will get a varied and developing job where no day is like the other. You are given great personal responsibility and freedom to drive your work forward, while having support from engaged colleagues and close collaboration within the organization. We value collaboration, development, and job satisfaction, and offer a workplace where you have the opportunity to make a real difference for the municipality's development.

Tasks

As a Street and Traffic Engineer, you will become an important part of Municipal Technical Services and Care. You will work both strategically and operationally with issues concerning traffic, streets, pedestrian and cycle paths, and the public environment.

You will, among other things:

• Plan and develop the municipality's traffic and street environments
• Work with traffic safety issues and traffic investigations
• Prepare materials for local traffic regulations
• Lead and coordinate investment and maintenance projects
• Participate in detailed planning and development projects
• Collaborate with contractors, consultants, authorities, and residents
• Handle citizen proposals, comments, and traffic cases
• Work with budget, follow-up, and planning within the operational area

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have an interest in societal development and want to contribute to making everyday life better for the municipality's residents.

You have a university education in civil engineering, road and water, traffic planning, or other education that the employer considers equivalent. You have good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish and hold a B driver's license.

It is meritorious if you have experience in traffic planning or traffic safety work, project management, work within municipal operations, GIS or other map-based systems, as well as work with contracts and procurement.

To thrive and succeed in the role, we believe you are an independent and responsible person who drives your work forward in a structured and meticulous way. You are solution-oriented and proactive, have an easy time collaborating with others, and build good relationships. The role involves many contacts, which requires that you feel confident in meeting and communicating with residents, businesses, and other actors in a professional and trustworthy manner.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

Conditions

Permanent position, 100 %.

Apply now! We want you to send your application via our recruitment tool on our website. Information on how we handle your personal data can be found here. If you for some reason cannot apply (e.g., protected identity), please contact the advertisement's contact person for an alternative application route. We decline calls from staffing and recruitment agencies as well as sellers of job advertisements.