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Welcome to us

The Infrastructure Department at the Traffic Office within Stockholm City has approximately 90 employees and a broad scope of operations. The department handles project implementation, management of the city's bridges, tunnels, traffic signal systems, and public lighting. The operations encompass everything from major operation and maintenance projects to investment and reinvestment in the city's facilities, street costs, urban environment improvements, as well as collaborative projects with the Swedish Transport Administration and the Traffic Administration.

Are you a project manager with experience in infrastructure reinvestment projects? We are now looking for a person who wants to lead important projects in the city and contribute to a sustainable Stockholm. As a Project Manager at Stockholm City, you will become part of the development work for today's and future Stockholmers, where you contribute to sustainable solutions with your knowledge and experience.

We offer

We offer you a secure workplace where we help and support each other in the daily work and value a good working environment. As a project manager on the client side, you will have a broad role where you get to work independently and freely with significant personal responsibility. You are given the opportunity for personal development and skills enhancement, as well as participation and influence at the workplace. We have flexible working hours and the possibility to exchange holiday pay supplements for extra leave. Depending on tasks and operational needs, there is an opportunity to alternate office work with working from home two days a week. We offer fitness allowances, fitness hours, and the opportunity to participate in fitness activities. We are located in modern and newly renovated premises in the Technical Council House on Kungsholmen, just a few minutes' walk from the Central Station. Read more about our benefits here and Stockholm City as an employer here.

Welcome to grow in a growing city – where your contribution truly makes a difference!

Your role

As a project manager with us, you are responsible for driving reinvestment projects within the city's infrastructure. As a project manager, you play a key role in the planning, design, and implementation phases of projects, where you drive the project within given frameworks and towards the city's goals. You will handle your assigned projects with regard to safety, sustainability, and efficiency.

Your responsibilities include among other things:

• Independently lead, plan, administer, and steer your assigned projects.
• Responsibility for results, budget, and follow-up in accordance with the office's routines.
• Staff and organize projects with the right competence (e.g., specialists, consultants, and contractors).
• Responsible for and manage risks and opportunities in the projects.
• Ensure that quality, environment, and working conditions are met according to current laws and regulations in the projects.
• Responsible for ordering services via framework agreements and participating in the procurement of contractors according to the Public Procurement Act (LOU) in your assigned projects.
• Collaborate and hold dialogue with external parties as well as cross-functionally within the city.

Your competence and experience

We are looking for you who have:

• A university education with a focus on infrastructure (e.g., civil engineering, urban planning, town planning) or another equivalent focus.
• Current and several years of experience as a project manager of infrastructure reinvestment projects.
• Experience with result, budget, and follow-up responsibility within construction or infrastructure projects.
• Good knowledge of contract law and industry regulations such as AMA, MER, AB/ABT, and ABK.
• Experience with document management systems such as Avima.
• Knowledge of the Public Procurement Act (LOU) and understanding of how the regulations affect procurement and project implementation.
• Very good ability to communicate in Swedish, both orally and in writing.
• Category B driver's license.

It is meritorious if you also have:

• Experience with complex projects within infrastructure.
• Experience with project management of reinvestment regarding buildings, streets, pedestrian, and cycle paths.
• Experience in negotiating, drawing up, and following up on consultancy and construction contracts.
• Experience working in a politically governed organization.

Your personal qualities

You are a driven and engaged person who takes great responsibility for your assignments and thrives in a role with varying tasks and many contact surfaces. You work independently, structured, and have a good ability to prioritize, make well-founded decisions, and drive the work forward towards set goals, schedules, and budgets. It is also important that you can work efficiently and long-term in your assignments and have the ability to prioritize and quickly switch between different types of operational issues and make trade-offs based on both technical, economic, and operational perspectives. As a person and leader, you are secure, communicative, and relationship-building, with the ability to collaborate and work with many different actors, both internal and external contractors and consultants. To succeed in the role, you need to be able to see and understand the whole picture and lead projects towards constructive, sustainable, and economically value-creating solutions.

Other

An employment with us may involve placement in a security class. A security investigation with register control according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) may therefore be carried out before a decision on employment.

We recruit without a cover letter in this recruitment to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences required for this role. In assessing your application, we will only base ourselves on your CV and a number of questions you will answer when applying for the position. We ask that you answer the questions concretely and concisely, and that there is a clear link between your answers and your CV. Only CVs in Swedish are requested.

During holiday periods, no feedback will be given on applications or questions regarding the position before week 33 at the earliest.