Vacant job

We are now looking for you who want to work as a Close Protection Soldier, motivate your employees, create a good work climate and strive to constantly improve our operations. We are looking for someone who is proactive, physically and mentally strong, has a high level of personal maturity, sees each individual and can support them to reach their full potential.

We work to create a work environment and a culture that provides high well-being for all employees. Together we can achieve fantastic results when we are happy and feel good at our workplace. In the Swedish Armed Forces, you will meet friendly and engaged colleagues and our values-based work is guided by the keywords openness, results and responsibility.

Main duties

As a Close Protection Soldier, you work within the framework of your own section. You work actively to develop business and working environment issues. You, together with your employees, ensure that we achieve the result we strive for and also ensure that it happens in the most effective way within the frameworks we have to follow. As a Close Protection Soldier, you work actively to maintain and develop your soldier skills, your physical fitness as well as your ability together with other employees in the department.

We offer you

In the Swedish Armed Forces, there is a strong value base based on openness, results and responsibility. The activity offers great variation and complexity as well as high demands on IT security, which means good development opportunities and conditions for internal career mobility. Our employees have a number of different benefits, including:

• Competence development based on the needs of the business and your career goals.
• Three hours of training per week during working hours and you can receive compensation for training clothes and start fees.
• Good balance between work and leisure with flexible working hours and days of vacation depending on your age.
• Salary supplement during parental leave and VAB (care for sick child) as well as the opportunity to exchange vacation days for extra pension savings.

Examples of duties include

• Participate in work to develop processes, routines, roles and job descriptions to streamline and facilitate work for your own section and supporting units.
• Participate in weapon service, vehicle service, close protection as well as training and care with the group.
• Work in the spirit of the unit to achieve the results required.
• Act in the role of assistant to train your employees.

Qualifications

• Completed military basic training or conscription with a passing grade.
• Swedish citizenship.
• Category B driver's license.
• Passed FM Fyss additional requirement level 4.
• Passed supplementary physical test:
  • 10km run with competitive result (around 48 min)
  • Dips with competitive result (around 15 repetitions)
  • Chins with competitive result (around 12 repetitions)
  • Bench press with own body weight as a target value (around 3 repetitions)
  • Squats with own body weight as a target value (around 10 repetitions)
• Passed testing moments.

Merits

• Experience and/or education in managerial positions in the Swedish Armed Forces.
• Trained security guard.
• Experience and/or education as a combat medic, medic or higher medical education.
• Experience of IBSS and/or TPSS service.
• Experience as drone operator, sharpshooter, marksman, communications operator or support shooter.
• A, BE, C, CI, CE, C1E driver's licenses
• Trained unit commander with a passing result.
• Military driving license for light off-road vehicle, trailer, snowmobile and/or quad.

Personal qualities

We are looking for someone who is secure, professional, unpretentious, has a high level of personal maturity and can put the team before the "I" in your role as a soldier. You can collaborate with other people at different levels and build and maintain trusting relationships. You have a good ability to solve emerging problems and find alternative solutions to the tasks we are faced with. You enjoy working independently as well as in a group.

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Other

We cannot guarantee fur-free premises.

The employment is a military position GSS/K permanent, full-time with a 6-month probation period for those not already employed by the Swedish Armed Forces. Travel occurs in the service. Location Örebro and start as soon as possible or according to agreement.

Welcome with your application by 2026-07-05. Your application should include a CV and a cover letter. Also attach a copy of relevant military grades, civil grades and service assessments if available. For questions about the recruitment process, contact HR generalist Simone Aro at [email protected].

Applications for this position will only be received via the Swedish Armed Forces website.

Information about the Swedish Armed Forces and the recruiting unit:
The Swedish Armed Forces Telecommunications and Information Systems Unit, FMTIS, ensures the Swedish Armed Forces' ability to communicate and lead - around the clock, year round. The unit has a joint responsibility for the Swedish Armed Forces' technical command system that supports military operations at sea, on land and in the air – in Sweden and abroad. The unit has nearly 2,000 employees at more than 32 locations around the country. Read more at jobb.forsvarsmakten.se/fmtis (https://jobb.forsvarsmakten.se/fmtis).

An employment with us means placement in a security class. Swedish citizenship is usually required. Security screening with register control will be carried out before employment according to Chapter 3 of the Security Protection Act. Employment entails an obligation to be war-placed and to serve abroad. The meaning of this varies depending on the type of position.

A CV and cover letter must be attached to the application for employment. If you proceed in the employment process, certified copies of grades and certificates must always be presented. Calls from external recruitment companies and salespeople are declined.