Vacant job

Description

The Public Outdoor Environment Department is responsible for the public spaces you experience in Karlstad Municipality. We work with streets, parks, and public land to create a safe and attractive public environment where people have good conditions for a high quality of life.

The position is located at the Street/Park Operations Unit, which manages the municipality's streets and roads, parks and green areas, as well as bathing areas and small boat harbors through operation, maintenance, and development. The work is carried out both in-house and in collaboration with other actors.

Job Responsibilities

We are looking for a construction worker who wants to work with the operation and maintenance of streets and roads, such as stone and paving work. Common tasks include jointing, manual and mechanical weed control, and minor stone maintenance. Other tasks that may occur include, for example, winter road maintenance as well as clearing and cutting of utility streets.

The position also includes on-call duty.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have relevant education deemed suitable by the employer, at least upper secondary education, and documented experience in construction work. You should have experience from stone and paving work.

You need to have a chainsaw license, minimum grade AB. Chainsaw license C and brush cutter licenses RA+RT are meritorious. It is also meritorious if you have experience with winter maintenance of streets and roads.

The position requires a B driver's license. A C driver's license is meritorious.

To thrive in the position, you need to be responsible, proactive, and have the ability to see solutions. You have good physical fitness and a good attitude towards colleagues, contractors, and our citizens.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We apply continuous recruitment, which means that selection and interviews take place continuously during the advertising period.

What We Offer

Read more about our benefits and what it is like to work in Karlstad Municipality at karlstad.se/jobbahososs

Information about salary levels can be found here (select "See salary statistics"). This recruitment concerns AID code 521012.

We warmly welcome your application!

When you apply for a job with us, you will be asked to provide your CV and answer a number of questions where we ask you to describe your competence in the requested area. This means that you should not attach a cover letter as part of your application.

About Karlstad Municipality

The Technical and Property Administration, with approximately 600 employees, is responsible for a safe and beautiful environment, the municipality's drinking water, streets, parks, playgrounds, forest land, and internal services. The administration also develops infrastructure, municipal properties, and manages the municipality's natural areas.

Do you want to be part of creating tomorrow's Karlstad? Here in the Karlstad Municipality group, you can make a real difference. Here, every employee is an important part of the whole, and together we help each other to realize our vision of "A better life in the City of the Sun." Come and grow with us!

Other Information

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application via our recruitment systems and not via email or paper format. We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

If you have protected personal data, you should not register your application documents in our recruitment system, nor send them via email. Instead, contact the municipality's switchboard at 054-540 00 00 for further handling.