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About the Company

Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant delivers fossil-free electricity every day, year-round. We have over 40 years of experience in electricity production. Ringhals is located on the west coast in Varberg Municipality, six miles south of Gothenburg.

Our employee culture is characterized by competence, expertise, and positive people who want to share their knowledge. At Ringhals, we are constantly working to develop our operations and working methods to meet the demands placed on us by customers and the outside world. Therefore, we view individual development as a major part of the company's future. Here, you are offered personal development at a workplace with many opportunities.

Read more about our operations here: https://group.vattenfall.com/se/var-verksamhet/ringhals (https://group.vattenfall.com/se/var-verksamhet/ringhals)

About the Role

Do you want to work strategically with critical infrastructure and contribute to a stable and fossil-free energy supply?

As a Strategic Maintenance Engineer at Ringhals, you will play a key role in ensuring high availability and long-term performance in our facilities – together with experienced colleagues in an operation where your expertise truly makes a difference.

About Us

You will become part of the Mechanical Maintenance – Strategic group, a knowledgeable and engaged team of approximately 20 maintenance engineers. Together, we are responsible for the mechanical maintenance at Ringhals and work closely together across several technical areas, such as diesel, HVAC, pumps, turbines, valves, piping, tanks, and heat exchangers.

About the Job

As a Maintenance Engineer, you work long-term to develop and ensure effective maintenance strategies within your technical area – with a special focus on pumps. You contribute to analyzing needs, prioritizing efforts, and translating technical knowledge into concrete improvements in operations.

Your Main Responsibilities

• Develop and follow up on strategic maintenance plans.
• Analyze and improve maintenance efforts within your area of responsibility.
• Monitor technical function and contribute with improvement proposals and modifications.
• Compile reports and further develop technical documentation, instructions, and guidelines.
• Be responsible for, drive, or participate in change and maintenance projects.
• Follow technical development within the field and translate knowledge into operational benefits.
• Contribute to economic planning work and monitor and report both technical and economic deviations.
• Act as a technical support and expert in pumps and rotating equipment.

Requirements

About You

We are looking for you who have a genuine interest in technology and thrive in a role where you get to combine analysis, structure, and collaboration.

We would like you to have:

• A university degree in engineering, for example in mechanical engineering, process technology, or as a marine engineer, or equivalent competence from working life.
• Experience in mechanical maintenance, preferably with pumps.
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and create structure – even during periods with varying work pace.
• Very good communication skills in both speech and writing in Swedish and English.

Merits:

• Certification in maintenance. For example, European Expert in Maintenance Management.
• Education or experience in pumps, sealing applications, bearings, vibration analysis, or surface treatment.

As a person, you are curious, structured, and analytical. You enjoy working strategically, handle complex information, and drive improvement work with persistence and engagement. You collaborate naturally with others and express yourself clearly in both analyses, plans, and technical documentation.

Additional Information

To achieve our strategic goals, we continuously develop our employees to ensure that all employees are best equipped for their tasks and areas of responsibility, both now and in the future. Vattenfall and Ringhals is an employer that takes responsibility and listens to the needs of its employees. We also offer a number of employee benefits, such as reduced working hours, favorable occupational pension agreements, and parental leave supplements. Read more about our great benefits here (#).

Location: Ringhals

For questions about the position, contact hiring manager Henrik Andersson at 070-20 55 531.

For questions about the recruitment process, contact responsible recruiter Lina Friberg at [email protected].

NOTE! The advertisement will be online for an extended period over the summer, which means our availability for questions may be somewhat limited.

Union Representatives: Patrik Andersson – Akademikerna, Jonas Eriksson – Unionen, Anders Karlsson – Ledarna, Alexander Johnsson – SEKO. All can be reached at 0340-66 70 00.

Apply by August 16th. Selection and interviews take place after the application deadline. You apply for the job by answering a few selection questions and attaching your CV; no cover letter is needed. We only accept applications via our website. This recruitment process includes tests as part of our procedure.

At Vattenfall, we value being active, positive, open, and safety-conscious. We are looking for employees who share our vision and can contribute to strengthening our corporate culture. We are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and attractive company and strive to be good role models when it comes to diversity. Vattenfall works actively to ensure that all employees have the same opportunities and rights regardless of age, ethnic or cultural background, gender, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or disability. Read more about how we work with diversity and inclusion here (#).

Vattenfall is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, and our operations are subject to regulations regarding security protection, nuclear non-proliferation, and export control. Due to these regulations, a background check is conducted for many of the positions in our operations before employment is offered. For positions that lead to participation in security-sensitive operations or placement in a security classification, this check means that a security clearance is conducted in accordance with the Security Protection Act. You may be called up for military service (total defense duty). Any such placement is based on the employment contract and the law on total defense duty.