Vacant job

Do you want to help develop future sustainable and attractive urban environments?
We are looking for an engaged and confident Unit Manager who wants to lead the work with the city's parks, green areas, and public outdoor spaces within the Business Area of City Maintenance in our City Service Administration.
Together we create a sustainable city for today's and tomorrow's residents! Read more and apply below.

About the role
As Unit Manager for Park Maintenance, you have overall responsibility for leading, planning, and developing the operations responsible for the city's parks, green areas, and public outdoor spaces. The role entails holistic responsibility where you ensure that operations are conducted efficiently, with high quality, and in accordance with current laws, guidelines, and agreements.

You are responsible for the budget, personnel, and work environment, and you actively work to optimize resource usage to achieve economic goals, high delivery quality, and engaged employees.

In your daily work, you lead a team of approximately 25 employees and are responsible for seasonal and summer staff, which requires close, clear, and structured leadership. The unit also consists of 2 coordinators who have a supervisory function and act as support to the Unit Manager. You create good conditions for operations and ensure stable and secure maintenance of parks and green spaces.

The role involves a combination of strategic and operational work. You alternate between driving long-term development of the city's park and green structure and ensuring that daily operations function efficiently. You also work in close collaboration with internal and external actors, such as other administrations, contractors, associations, and residents.

As part of the City Maintenance management group, you play an important role in the development of the operations. You contribute to strategic issues, drive improvement work, and participate in urban planning processes and development projects. In your work, you receive support from coordinators within the operations. In this role, you report to the Business Manager for City Maintenance and are part of the City Maintenance management group. You are based at our office on Skedebrogatan, and on-call duty may occur.

Your profile
For the role of Unit Manager for Park Maintenance, we are looking for a confident and engaged leader who can combine clear leadership with a good understanding of the operation and development of outdoor environments.

You have a relevant university degree or equivalent that the employer assesses as equivalent.

To succeed in the role, we see that you have documented managerial experience with responsibility for operations, personnel, and economy. You have experience in operation, maintenance, or development of parks and outdoor environments, as well as experience leading through others, such as employees or contractors.

You have good knowledge of occupational health and safety work as well as experience in contract and tender management. Furthermore, you have a good ability to work structurally with budgets, follow-ups, and resource planning.

As a leader, you are clear, communicative, and unpretentious. You create engagement and participation through present leadership and build trusting relationships both internally and externally. You have the ability to set direction, make decisions, and drive development in a structured manner.

Since the position involves continuous dialogue with employees, colleagues, and external parties, it is important that you express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

It is meritorious if you have experience from municipal operations or public administration, as well as knowledge in sustainability work, green planning, or urban development.

About the workplace
In the City of Mölndal, we are proud to have Sweden's most important job where we together create the best possible everyday life for our citizens. With knowledge, courage, and creativity, we develop our operations and contribute to making Mölndal an even better place to live and work in. Welcome to make a difference in people's everyday lives every day!

The City Service Administration has an important and exciting mission to deliver, coordinate, and develop services for residents and administrations in the City of Mölndal. The administration has approximately 550 employees and is organized into four business areas: food and facility care, water and recycling, city maintenance, and support and customer service.

Within City Maintenance, approximately 150 employees work with the operation, maintenance, and development of the municipality's public environments - from buildings and streets to parks and green areas. Together we contribute to a clean, safe, and pleasant city for both residents and visitors.

Apply for the position today!
In this recruitment, the City of Mölndal collaborates with Jefferson Wells. For questions, you are welcome to contact the responsible recruitment consultants Maria Svedberg at [email protected] or Anna Edemyr at [email protected].

We work with rolling selections, so please send in your application as soon as possible.

No interviews will be conducted between week 28-32.

Before any potential employment, we will check citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must be able to present a valid residence/work permit or prove that you are exempt from the obligation to have a work permit.

Background checks may be conducted prior to employment.