Power System Designer for Future Maintenance Operations

Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is Vattenfall's electricity grid business and one of Sweden's largest grid companies. We are responsible for a socially vital infrastructure that distributes electricity to more than 900,000 businesses and households. As an employee, you contribute every day to keeping society running and ensuring a secure electricity supply for future generations. Together, we are building tomorrow's power grid and enabling the transition to a sustainable society. Read more about what it's like to work here (#).

About the Role

Do you want a meaningful job where you can make a real difference for both society and the energy transition? Here, you are part of a socially vital operation with exciting projects, cutting-edge technology, and colleagues who value each other.

We are now looking for several experienced Power System Designers who want to help build the maintenance operations of the future!

We are facing one of Vattenfall Eldistribution's largest investments ever – a historic mobilization to build a stronger, more resilient, and fully independent capability in maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair. In a time when the external environment places increasingly high demands on robustness and durability, we are taking decisive steps to secure a power grid that can withstand harsh conditions and deliver when needed most.

Your Role as Power System Designer

As a Power System Designer focusing on substations and control equipment, you are a key person in our reinvestment projects within the power grid (0.4–400 kV). You drive the design process from requirements and technical choices to detailed design, procurement documentation, and final documentation. The work is carried out primarily in collaboration with our own maintenance organization, meaning you have close dialogue with those who will build, test, and manage the facility. In this role, you also ensure that occupational health and safety are considered at all stages, from design choices and work preparation to implementation and handover.

Main Responsibilities:

• Produce and quality-assure design documentation (single-line diagrams, circuit diagrams, connection tables, assembly documentation, and layouts/cabinet layouts).
• Develop technical descriptions and documentation, and provide technical support during implementation.
• Ensure that the design meets requirements, standards, and internal guidelines, and contribute to technical decision-making and solution discussions.
• Drive documentation all the way to handover, including updates and as-built documentation after construction/commissioning.
• Coordinate and set requirements for contractors/suppliers in project parts where external resources are used.
• When necessary, work with relay protection/IED and communication in substation environments, such as IEC 61850, and support related to substation networks.

Requirements

We are looking for someone who is analytical and enjoys working with complex technical issues. You have good collaboration skills, are willing to share your competence, and contribute to the team's overall success. At the same time, you are responsible, drive your tasks to completion, and are confident in asking for support when needed.

We prefer that you have:

• Post-secondary education in power systems/electrical engineering (university/master's degree) or equivalent experience-based competence.
• Experience in power system design in a project environment.
• Experience producing design documentation: single-line diagrams, circuit diagrams, connection tables, assembly documentation, and layouts/cabinet layouts.
• Good CAD skills.
• Structured and quality-conscious, taking responsibility for technical deliveries and thriving in collaboration with many stakeholders.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Class B driver's license.

Merits:

• Experience with distribution projects/substation and control facilities.
• Relay protection/IED and IEC 61850 (configuration/testing, e.g., SCD/GOOSE/MMS where relevant).
• Experience with testing/commissioning/troubleshooting of control facilities.
• Experience with procurement documentation and technical support during procurement.
• Experience producing as-built documentation and completing documentation after construction.

Additional Information

We offer an exciting workday and a good work-life balance at an attractive workplace with great opportunities for development. We work in a safe and motivating environment, with a strong and positive culture characterized by care for everyone. To ensure you thrive, we offer opportunities for continuous learning, good working conditions, and a wide range of employee benefits – Read more about our benefits here (#).

Location

Trollhättan, Åmål, Borås, Gothenburg, Skövde, Motala, Linköping, Kimstad, Sköldinge, Nyköping, Södertälje, or Sollentuna.

Contact Persons

For more information about the position, contact recruiting manager Anders Palenbring, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). For questions about the recruitment process, contact recruiter Johanna Sperling, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).

Union representatives for this position are Christian Ericsson, Ledarna, Anne-Marie Sjöbohm, Akademikerna, Jan-Olof Eriksson, Unionen, and Ulf Tengman, SEKO. All contacts can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard at 08-739 50 00.

Apply by August 9, 2026! We do not accept cover letters. You apply quickly and easily by answering selection questions and attaching your CV. We only accept applications via our website.

We are conducting ongoing selection. However, during the summer period, it may take a little longer before you receive feedback on your application or answers to your questions – thank you for your patience.

Working at Vattenfall means working with socially vital infrastructure. Therefore, many of our positions are security classified, and you may be assigned to wartime duties. If this position is security classified, a security check will be conducted before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act. Any wartime assignment is based on the employment contract and the Total Defence Service Act.