Vacant job

We make society function for people on the move, on rails, in the air, and on water. That is why we need the best competence. Our mission is important and has significance in everyday life – for both individuals and businesses. At our agency, we take responsibility, treat everyone well, and respect differences. As an employee, you contribute to a sustainable future.

About the job

In accordance with the Planning and Building Ordinance, the Swedish Transport Administration (Transportstyrelsen) is authorized to prescribe technical performance requirements for roads, streets, metro systems, tramways, and railways, as well as facilities associated with them. This means we issue national requirements for the technical properties that are essential regarding:

• load-bearing capacity, stability, and durability,
• safety in the event of fire,
• protection with regard to hygiene, health, and the environment,
• safety during use,
• protection against noise.

Are you genuinely interested in civil engineering challenges and want to use your expertise to develop and manage regulations that support land-based transport infrastructure? Apply for this position! Your work will largely focus on the second generation of Eurocodes and their national application. Together with friendly and helpful colleagues, you will contribute to achieving our transport policy goals for accessibility, traffic safety, environment, and health!

You are important to us

Do you enjoy working with others and want to develop in your professional role? Here, you can expect career development, a trust-based leadership and employee relationship, and a sustainable work life. We are a secure employer that cares about your health with time for wellness activities during working hours, flexible working hours, a generous number of vacation days, and bridge holidays.

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You will

• develop and manage regulations within your area of expertise
• lead and participate in regulatory work, government assignments, examination of exceptions, internal investigations, and respond to consultations
• participate in standardization work nationally and potentially internationally
• serve as an expert resource both externally and internally
• initiate research and development related to technical performance requirements, if relevant.

Since you may participate in national and international working groups, the position involves periodic travel.

You must have

• a degree as a Civil Engineer or a Master's degree in Civil Engineering or Geotechnics, or other education, competence, and experience that we assess as equivalent
• a few years of relevant and current work experience in the design of foundations or structures where Eurocodes have been applied, or alternatively, reviewed documentation of such design
• good investigative skills
• very good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish
• good ability to understand and express yourself in speech and writing in English.

It is meritorious if you also have

• experience from standardization nationally or internationally
• experience of risk analysis or probability-theoretical calculations
• experience from working on developing regulations within an area relevant to the position
• experience from road or railway construction
• doctoral education, for example, a PhD.

We want you to

• be good at seeing and weighing different perspectives, seeing the big picture, and thinking long-term
• have good analytical skills and be meticulous
• have good initiative and teamwork skills and be able to work both independently and in a group
• be good at writing in a structured and understandable manner and have good pedagogical skills in oral and written presentations.

Personal suitability is given great weight.

More information

The employment is permanent. We prefer a location in Borlänge, but placement can be discussed at other operational sites: Norrköping, Örebro, Stockholm, Arjeplog, Visby, Kristianstad, Gothenburg, Härnösand, Mariestad, or Umeå. We normally apply a probationary period.

As an employee, there is an opportunity to work remotely up to three days a week. It is the operational needs and the nature of the tasks that determine if and to what extent this is possible.

An employment with us may involve placement in a security classification. A security investigation with register check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) may therefore be conducted. For some of our security-classified tasks, Swedish citizenship is required.

If you have questions, you are welcome to contact Section Chief Peter Goodfellow, 010-495 30 78, [email protected].

Union representatives ST, Patrik Malmberg, and Saco-S, Ingela Svensson, can be reached via our switchboard at 0771-503 503.

We do not want advertisers or staffing agencies to contact us.

Apply

Apply via our website and attach a complete CV as well as a cover letter marked with reference number TSG 2026-5186.

We need your application no later than August 28, 2026.

If you have protected personal data, you should submit your application by post; contact the hiring manager for information on how to proceed. In your application documents, you need to describe in what way you meet the requested qualifications and merits related to the current recruitment. If you proceed in the hiring process, educational/diploma certificates and employment certificates confirming the knowledge and experience relevant to the position must always be presented.

Welcome to become our new colleague!

Short about the Swedish Transport Administration

The Swedish Transport Administration works to achieve good accessibility, high quality, safe, and environmentally adapted transport within railways, aviation, shipping, and roads. We create regulations, issue permits, and follow up on how they are complied with. Using our registers, we work among other things with fees, permits, and ownership changes.

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