Vacant job

Do you want a key role in working with chemical safety and regulatory compliance in the Swedish Armed Forces? We are looking for an overarching chemical coordinator for the Defence Staff Support Unit, Business and Supply Management Division (FST STÖD AFL). FST STÖD AFL creates the prerequisites for meeting the Swedish Armed Forces' needs for contracts with external suppliers, customers, and service products. The purpose is to ensure robust supply at all levels of conflict through good business practices and long-term partnerships.

The overarching chemical coordinator takes collective responsibility for management, legal monitoring, and system support regarding chemicals – serving as a clear support for operations throughout the organization.

Who are we?

At the new Business and Supply Management of the Defence Staff Support, we ensure the supply of the Swedish Armed Forces and the dimensioning of logistics as an ally in NATO at the military strategic level. Currently, we have broad competence from both the military and civilian sectors.

We are to contribute to enabling our national responsibility in international cooperation and within the NATO alliance. Sweden's new role is, among other things, to be a basing and transit country, and since joining the alliance, we have entirely new flows and volumes to handle.

In the long term, we envision that within the section, we will have a breadth of strategic competencies within supply chain, where each conducts change management and projects for a group of supplies. Currently, we are seeking competencies for ammunition, fuel, food, and materiel.

Main Responsibilities

As an overarching chemical coordinator, you work at a strategic and organization-wide level with management, regulatory compliance, and legal monitoring regarding chemicals. You set the frameworks within which the Service Branches and the Armed Forces must operate, and you support and hold accountable chemical coordinators further down in the organization, as well as chemical representatives and chemical responsible persons.

You are also overall responsible for the organization's common system support for chemical management – with a special focus on content and policy.

Key Tasks:

• Overall management, regulatory compliance, and legal monitoring in the chemical field
• Develop guidelines and frameworks for the Service Branches and Armed Forces to adhere to and work within
• Support and hold accountable chemical coordinators, chemical representatives, and chemical responsible persons within the organization
• Responsible for content and policy in the organization-wide system support
• Monitor and interpret relevant legislation and ensure it is implemented in practical guidelines

Requirements

Qualifications

• Relevant higher education/university degree, for example in chemistry, environment, occupational health and safety, or equivalent
• Current and relevant experience working with chemical management and preferably chemical management systems
• Good knowledge of chemical legislation (e.g., REACH, CLP) and systematic occupational health and safety work
• Current and relevant experience in developing governing documents, guidelines, and policies
• Current and relevant experience in coordinating, supporting, and holding accountable across organizational boundaries
• Good skills in Swedish and English – both spoken and written

Personal Attributes

As a person, you are structured, self-initiating, and accustomed to driving issues forward with a holistic perspective. You have good collaboration skills and feel confident in dialogue with different roles within the operations, from specialists to managers. Through your clear communication and ability to build good relationships, you contribute to efficient collaboration and good results.

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Merits

• Current and relevant experience of working in the Swedish Armed Forces

For the agency's mission to be successful, it is assumed that all employees act according to the existing value base. The Swedish Armed Forces' value base protects the equal value of all people, fairness, and equality, and promotes democracy and human rights (read more at www.forsvarsmakten.se (http://www.forsvarsmakten.se)).

Other Information

Employment Type: Civil position, permanent employment. If you are not currently permanently employed by the Swedish Armed Forces, a 6-month probationary period applies.

Full-time/Part-time: Full-time

Location: Stockholm

Start Date: As agreed

Tests may occur during the recruitment process.

For information about the position, contact:

Manager Anders Ellström via switchboard 08-788 7500

Union Representatives:

SACO: Stefan Ungerth
SEKO: Monika Danielsson/Liselott Larsson
Försvarsförbundet, OFRS: Kjell Tetzlaff
OFRO: Roger Ericsson

All can be reached via switchboard 08-788 7500.

Application

Please submit your application by 2026-07-02. Your application should include a CV and a cover letter where you justify why you are suitable for this position, as well as answers to the specified selection questions.

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

Information about the recruiting unit: The Chief of Defence and the Director General are located at Headquarters. Headquarters has approximately 1,000 employees – both career officers and civilian experts. As of 2023-01-01, Headquarters consists of the Defence Staff, the Operations Command, the Military Intelligence and Security Service, as well as Headquarters' Staff Division and independent supervision units. An employment with us implies placement in a security class. Swedish citizenship is usually required. Security clearance with register check will be conducted prior to employment according to Chapter 3 of the Security Protection Act. Employment entails an obligation to be war-placed. The employment also includes an obligation to serve abroad. The meaning of this varies depending on the type of position. A CV and personal 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 agencies and salespeople are declined.