Vacant job

Your Role

As an Environmental Inspector with us, you play a significant role and are a vital part of the municipality's supervision work within the field of environmental and public health protection. You contribute to promoting sustainable development in Söderhamn Municipality.

Your main responsibility will be to carry out the authority's planned supervision according to the Environmental Code within the area of environmental and public health protection. Additionally, you will handle notification cases, complaint cases, references, and more. You work largely on delegation but are, when necessary, preparatory and reporting for cases in the Community Service Committee. We strive for fair and legally secure assessments, which involves quality assurance work.

An important part of the role is also to be advisory and guiding. This means, for example, acting as a support for private individuals and business owners. It also involves contact with other authorities. Furthermore, you may participate in various projects driven internally or in collaboration with authorities, concerning substantive issues within environmental and public health protection.

We use the case management system EDP Vision and the map system Geosecma in our daily work.

Description of the Workplace

In the coastal municipality of Söderhamn, you will find the sea, archipelago, countryside, mountains, forests, hiking trails, Hälsingland farms, World Heritage sites, a rich association life, and many leisure activities. Söderhamn is located near Gävle, Bollnäs, and Hudiksvall, and it takes approximately 2.5 hours to reach Stockholm and 1 hour to Järvsö. The municipality offers benefits such as flexible working hours, the possibility of some remote work, and health care subsidies.

The Supervision and Permit Unit is organized within the Operational Urban Development activity under the Community Service sector. We are currently fifteen employees working within the authority responsible for the Environmental Code, the Planning and Building Act, and more. We now wish to fill a vacancy and are therefore looking for an additional Environmental Inspector.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a university or college education within the field of environmental and public health protection, or alternatively, other education that the employer deems equivalent.

Experience is meritorious but not decisive. We would like you to have previous experience of working with environmental and public health protection, for example, in the role of an environmental inspector, case handler with a focus on the environment, from supervision work, or from working with environmental issues as a consultant, but great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities.

Personal qualities we value include, for example, having good judgment and taking responsibility for your tasks by independently planning, organizing, and prioritizing to achieve our common goals. Showing interest in the development of the operations and quality assurance of the activities.

Furthermore, we see that you have good communication skills and are team-oriented. As a person, we want you to be attentive and accommodating in your interactions and have a good ability to adapt to the situation.

It is important that you are informative in speech and writing and that you have good knowledge of Swedish.

It is a requirement that you have a B driver's license.

Probationary employment may be applicable.

We Offer

Your well-being is important to us! Söderhamn Municipality works actively with health, wellness, and working environment. We have health inspirers and you receive a wellness subsidy. For us, it is also important that there is a balance between work and leisure, and we are keen that our employees get the chance to recover as needed. Read more about some of our benefits: Benefits and advantages - Söderhamn Municipality (soderhamn.se)

In the archipelago municipality of Söderhamn - where Hälsingland meets the sea, we think new and big. We have the desire to grow to 28,000 inhabitants and start every day from the Söderhamn residents and their needs when we shape and develop our operations. Together we make a difference for individuals and society.

We use competency-based recruitment to create an inclusive and fair process. This means that we assess candidates based on their competencies, experiences, and abilities in an equal and equitable manner. Our goal is an objective recruitment where everyone has the same opportunity to show what they can contribute.

In this recruitment, we have already made our choices of advertising channels and cooperation partners. We kindly but firmly decline all forms of help with the recruitment from outside parties.

Open to All
We focus on your competence, not your other prerequisites. We are open to adapting the role or workplace to your needs.