Vacant job

The Department of Care and Elderly Care is looking for you who wants to make a difference! We are responsible for the municipality's elderly and disability care, home healthcare, and the food service unit. With over 1,000 dedicated employees, including assistant nurses, personal assistants, nurses, chefs, and many other important professional groups, we offer a workplace filled with community, engagement, and joy. Here you get the chance to work in a dynamic environment where competence and responsibility are highly valued, and where each day brings new, meaningful challenges.

Do you want to spice up life for others - apply as a chef with us!

Ludvika Municipality's food service unit has ambitious goals where cooking from scratch is high on the priority list. The possibilities are unlimited, from the schools' work with large kitchen operations, focusing on nutrition and special diets, to the more restaurant-like kitchens within elderly care where the fine balance of nutrition and restaurant-quality dishes must be met.

The Workplace

Within the food service unit, approximately 90 chefs work in our 33 kitchens in primary schools, preschools, and elderly care. Every day we prepare approximately 4,300 portions for our diners. All kitchens are preparation kitchens and we constantly strive for development and to increase the proportion of dishes cooked from scratch. We have the opportunity to purchase a certain amount of locally produced meat. We work with seasonal adaptation and take environmental and climate considerations into account. The food service unit has three unit managers with geographically divided food areas. All three areas have kitchens for primary schools, preschools, and elderly care. One food developer and one operations manager.

We are now looking for substitute chefs for two of our school kitchens where we cook for students in primary school. You will be part of a work team with several colleagues, so we are looking for you who has good cooperation skills. Work in another kitchen may occasionally occur.

If you are the one who has the knowledge, will, education, and engagement needed to be part of the team that continues to develop the meal into one of the highlights of the day for our guests, then you are welcome to submit your application.

Job Responsibilities

• Work in a large kitchen with cooking in primary schools, preschools, elderly care, and senior restaurants, including all tasks found in a large kitchen such as preparation, cooking, serving, baking, dishwashing, cleaning, and receiving goods
• Cooperate and contribute to a good working environment, for yourself and for your colleagues. We do the job together!
• Cook food from scratch and you are responsible for preparing good, nutritious, and safe food according to our guidelines to meet the guests' needs
• In a large kitchen, planning is an important part of the work, and you are expected to be part of this as we always want to stay ahead with planning and preparations for upcoming days
• Ordering goods via digital purchasing portal
• Using the diet data program Matilda for self-control and menus
• Responsible for handling and preparing special diets
• Be involved and active in the work to reduce waste and food waste

Qualifications

• A genuine interest in the chef profession, you should enjoy cooking good food
• Chef education and/or long experience from working in a professional kitchen
• Good computer skills as we use digital tools in our communication
• Good knowledge of special diets and feel confident working with them
• Good communication skills in Swedish, both orally and in writing, are a requirement as you need to be able to read and understand recipes, work according to written routines, write emails, etc. You need to be able to make yourself understood in communication even outside our operations

Personal Qualities

You should be able to provide a good reception to our diners. You are positive and service-oriented. You are ambitious and put the diners in focus. You want to deliver high quality to the diners. You want to be part of our team spirit, follow our guidelines, and be a good ambassador for Ludvika Municipality and the food service unit. Great importance will be attached to your personal suitability.

What you get from us!

Aside from working with exciting issues in a varied everyday life, you get the opportunity to become part of an organization that maintains important societal functions for residents in Ludvika Municipality. As an employee, you have access to health benefits, good opportunities for competence development, and exchanging vacation day supplements. Please read more on ludvika.se under the heading "Work with us".

In Ludvika Municipality, we work according to our value base "Lagandan" which consists of four principles: Relationships, Joy, Learning, and Drive. It is based on collaboration and cooperation, a sense of "we", and a desire to continue developing. It is with "Lagandan" that we take on our mission and strive towards our vision of being the municipality of the future, growth, and opportunities.

Employment Type

Employment Type: Fixed-term contract with possibility of extension

Scope: Full-time with possibility of part-time

Working Hours: Schedule, daytime

Start Date: 2026-08-26 or by agreement

Number of Positions: 2

Other Information

In accordance with the Act (2013:852) on register control of persons who are to work with children, it is required that you, who are offered the position, can present an extract from the Police Authority's criminal record. We request that you bring this along with your certification to any potential interview.

If you have a protected identity, you should not apply via our recruitment system but contact us directly.

Information

Manager: Maria Forsberg, Unit Manager Food Service Unit, phone 0240-86405

Employee Organization: Kommunal can be reached at 0240-86 000

Application

Welcome to submit your application by July 15, 2026.

We only accept applications via our recruitment system.

We decline all offers of candidate mediation as well as advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.