Vacant job

We are now looking for you who want to work as a Close Protection Soldier, motivate your colleagues, create a good work climate, and strive to continuously improve our operations. We are looking for you who are proactive, physically and mentally strong, have a high degree of personal maturity, see every individual, and can support them to reach their full potential.

We work to create a work environment and culture that provides high well-being for all employees. Together we can achieve fantastic results when we thrive 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 Responsibilities

As a Close Protection Soldier, you work within the framework of your own section. You work actively to develop operational and work environment issues. You, together with your colleagues, ensure that we achieve the results we strive for and ensure that this is done 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, and your ability to work together with other employees in the department.

We offer you

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

• Competence development based on the organization's needs and your career goals.
• Three hours of training per week during working hours, and you can receive compensation for training clothes and start-up fees.
• Good balance between work and leisure with flexible working hours and vacation days depending on your age.
• Salary supplement during parental leave and sick leave for children, as well as the possibility to exchange vacation days for extra pension savings.

Examples of tasks 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 weapons service, vehicle service, close protection, as well as training and care with the group.
• Work in the spirit of the unit to achieve the desired results.
• Act in the role of assistant to train your colleagues.

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 a competitive result (around 48 min)
  • Dips with a competitive result (around 15 repetitions)
  • Chins with a competitive result (around 12 repetitions)
  • Bench press with own body weight as a guideline (around 3 repetitions)
  • Squats with own body weight as a guideline (around 10 repetitions)
• Passed testing moments.

Merits

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

Personal Qualities

We are looking for you who are secure, professional, unpretentious, have a high degree of personal maturity, and can put the team before the self 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 face. 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 position is a military post 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 position. Location Örebro and start as soon as possible or according to agreement.

Welcome to submit your application by 2026-07-05. Your application must include a CV and a cover letter. Also attach copies of relevant military grades, civil grades, and service evaluations 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 command - around the clock, year-round. The unit has a consolidated 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 2000 employees at more than 32 locations around the country. Read more at jobb.forsvarsmakten.se/fmtis (https://jobb.forsvarsmakten.se/fmtis).

Employment with us implies placement in a security class. Swedish citizenship is usually required. Security screening with register control will be conducted prior to 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 agencies and salespeople are declined.