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Your Responsibilities

As an Automation Electrician, you will become part of the maintenance department and a team of 22 colleagues who together are responsible for ensuring stable and reliable production. You report to the Maintenance Manager and work closely with production, the technical department, and other maintenance personnel. A large part of the role involves developing and optimizing the company's automation solutions. You work with everything from individual machines to complex supervisory systems and actively contribute to improving production availability, quality, and efficiency. Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Programming, developing, and managing the company's automation systems.
• Troubleshooting and performing preventive and corrective maintenance.
• Developing and optimizing control and regulation technology.
• Participating in projects and technical improvement work.
• Planning and executing maintenance activities.
• Collaborating with production, technicians, and other functions to find long-term solutions.
• Documenting completed work and contributing to continuous improvements.
• Participating in occupational health and safety work and reporting risks, near misses, and deviations.
• Joining the company's emergency response team when needed.

Your Profile

We are looking for you who have at least five years of experience in industrial automation and have worked practically with Siemens software and products. You are confident in your skills and enjoy working with troubleshooting, programming, and development of automation solutions in a manufacturing environment. As a person, you are results-oriented and accustomed to working close to production, with a focus on keeping facilities running and minimizing disruptions. You work systematically even when the pace is high and have the ability to quickly analyze process faults to find long-term sustainable solutions. You are accustomed to collaborating in cross-functional environments, where you have a natural dialogue with production, maintenance, and technology to solve problems and drive improvements. You actively contribute your expertise to daily work and share experiences that strengthen the group's collective capability. You have a strong safety mindset and work consistently according to current routines and methods, with a focus on ensuring stable, safe, and high-quality operations.

Requirements for the role:

• Education as an automation electrician, service electrician, or equivalent competence acquired through work experience.
• Experience with programmable logic controllers (PLC).
• Good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Valid driver's license (Category B).
• Ability to work shifts.

Meritorious experience:

• SCADA systems.
• Control technology (PID control).
• Maintenance of industrial machinery, preferably heavy industry.
• Drawing reading and CAD.
• Microsoft Office.
• Leading or driving projects.
• ESA or other relevant training, such as forklift license, crane license, fall protection, mobile work platforms, or Hot Work certification.

About the Company

Åkers Sweden AB is a Swedish industrial company with roots dating back to the 1500s, making it one of the country's oldest operations. The company is part of the international Ampco-Pittsburgh group and is part of Union Electric Steel, a leading player in the manufacturing of rolls for the steel and metal industry. Advanced rolls and special products with high demands for precision and quality are produced from the facility in Åkers Styckebruk. The company operates in a global environment with both production and customers across several continents. The manufacturing is based on electrical processes and a high proportion of recycled material, which is an important part of the company's sustainability work. At the same time, Åkers has a clear focus on developing stable and efficient production processes and reducing its climate impact.

About Us

Auxante AB is a Swedish staffing and recruitment agency targeting the industry. It is a family-owned company that, through its own experiences in industrial manufacturing and other service and installation trades, conceived the idea of a company aimed at assisting the industry's recruitment needs. Thus, Auxante was founded with the ambition to engage and employ skilled white-collar workers and blue-collar workers in Sweden.