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Welcome to Forshaga Municipality!

We are approximately 1,100 employees whose common 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 situated along the Klarälven river. Around 11,500 residents live here with easy access 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 the 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 together with us. As an employee, you have access to a range of different benefits for health, wellness, and leave.

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

Community Technology's responsibility is to meet the needs of both residents and other administrations for services within water, sewage, road maintenance, park maintenance, property maintenance, and waste management.

Description

Do you want to help develop the Forshaga of the future?

Forshaga Municipality is growing and developing. We are now looking for a Land and Development Engineer who wants to help create the prerequisites for future housing, businesses, and attractive living environments.

As a Land and Development Engineer, you will have a central role in the municipality's urban planning work. You will work closely with politicians, colleagues, developers, property owners, and residents, and will be involved in projects ranging from idea and planning to implementation. Through your work, you contribute to the municipality's long-term development and have the opportunity to influence how the Forshaga of the future is shaped.

We offer a varied and developmental role with significant personal responsibility and good opportunities for both professional and personal development. You will become part of an organization with short decision-making paths and close collaboration between colleagues and managers, where engagement, cooperation, and joy in work are valued. Here you have the opportunity to make a real difference and contribute to the development of a growing municipality.

Responsibilities

As a Land and Development Engineer, you are responsible for the municipality's land issues and participate in the work of developing new residential areas, business areas, and other urban planning projects.

Your responsibilities include, among other things:

• Land acquisition, land sales, and land allocation
• Drafting and negotiating agreements, such as development agreements, land transfer agreements, and usage rights agreements
• Participation in detailed planning processes and development projects
• Coordination between the municipality, developers, consultants, and authorities
• Project management within the land and development area
• Property law issues and contacts with the Swedish Land Survey (Lantmäteriet)
• Management of the municipality's land reserve and land strategic issues
• Preparation of decision support materials for the board and municipal leadership

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a university education in urban planning, land surveying, physical planning, property economics, or other education that the employer considers equivalent. You have good knowledge of property and land issues, good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish, and a valid driver's license (Category B).

It is meritorious if you have experience of land and development issues within municipal operations, property law and land survey issues, project management, contract negotiations, or work with detailed plans and other urban planning projects.

To succeed in the role, you have an interest in societal development and want to contribute to a long-term sustainable development of the municipality. You are engaged, solution-oriented, and enjoy taking responsibility for your tasks. You have the ability to see the big picture while working in a structured and meticulous manner. The role involves many contact surfaces, both internally and externally, which requires you to be communicative, cooperative, and have a professional demeanor. You have an easy time creating and developing good relationships and thrive in a role where collaboration is an important part of the work.

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Offer

With us, you receive various benefits such as flexible working hours, wellness allowance, the possibility of remote work, and a wellness hour. For those who do not live in the municipality, there are good commuting opportunities, for example, a cycle path along the Klarälven line and a bus from Karlstad every 20 minutes. We act in the best interest of the individual and work for a sustainable society. We improve and develop by learning from good examples. We have a permissive climate with respect for each other.

As a new employee in Forshaga Municipality, you receive 500 extra points with Forshagabostäder, which is enough to secure an apartment.

Conditions

Permanent position, 100%.

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