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About SVA

Dangerous animal diseases can have serious consequences for animals, humans, the economy, and food security. The National Veterinary Institute (SVA) is an expert and emergency preparedness authority that contributes to good animal health and reduced spread of infection between animals and humans through diagnostics, research, and expert knowledge. SVA is part of the emergency preparedness sector for Food Supply and Drinking Water. Healthy animals – secure people.

The position is located at the Department of Microbiology (MIK), which works in the public interest for healthy animals and humans. We achieve this by conducting diagnostics and contributing to SVA's role as a national and European reference laboratory, maintaining preparedness, and deepening existing knowledge while developing new knowledge about infectious diseases. We also adopt and adapt new technologies and diagnostics based on the needs of SVA and Sweden.

The Bacteriology Section (BKT) is tasked with performing diagnostics of zoonoses, epizootic, and other notifiable animal diseases, and contributes to SVA's function as a national reference laboratory. Our mandate also includes advisory services and teaching/training regarding disease diagnostics in bacteriology, both internally and externally.

Your future responsibilities

We offer you a varied job where you, together with a team of approximately 20 employees, work with bacteriological diagnostics in veterinary medicine. The duties include, among other things:

• Culturing, species identification, and resistance testing of clinically relevant findings, and gradually more independent and advanced assessments of cultures
• Responsibility for methods and instruments
• Continuous quality and improvement work

In the long term, the position may also involve working in one of the department's safety laboratories (biosafety level 3). Tasks within the department's other research and diagnostic activities may also become relevant.

Here, you will have the opportunity to develop your interest in microbiology and deepen your knowledge in both traditional laboratory techniques and modern methods. The position includes some weekend work, but the operations are mainly conducted during weekdays with flexible working hours.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who:

• is educated as a biomedical laboratory scientist or has equivalent education assessed by the employer as comparable
• has knowledge of Office 365
• has good proficiency in Swedish, both spoken and written
• has several years of experience in laboratory bacteriology
• has experience with accredited laboratory operations

To thrive in this role, you have a genuine interest in bacteriology and a willingness to continuously develop your theoretical and practical knowledge.

We place great importance on personal qualities. You are meticulous, systematic, and responsible, and you work independently and in a structured manner. You collaborate well, are flexible, and adapt to changed tasks and conditions. You are solution-oriented and wish to contribute to our continuous development work with the goal of being one of the leading veterinary medical laboratories of the future.

Merits

It is meritorious if you have:

• Experience with several different analytical techniques, such as resistance testing and typing of bacteria and fungi using MALDI-TOF
• Good theoretical knowledge in bacteriology
• Experience with culture-based bacteriology from an accredited microbiological diagnostic operation
• Good knowledge of result management in laboratory information systems

Conditions

• Application deadline: 2026-08-12
• Employment type: Permanent position at 100%. We apply a 6-month probation period
• Start date: By agreement
• Department: Dept. of Microbiology (MIK)
• Location: Uppsala

We only accept applications here: https://sva.varbi.com/se/what:job/jobID:951210/ (https://sva.varbi.com/se/what:job/jobID:951210/) and request that application documents be in Swedish.

Other

SVA is a government agency, which means that received documents become public. Applicants with protected identity should contact us directly and not apply via Varbi. Tests and work samples may be part of the recruitment process, and background checks may be conducted. Swedish citizens who are hired for permanent positions are assigned to wartime duties at the agency. For some positions, security clearance with register check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) is required, and in some cases, Swedish citizenship.

In connection with the recruitment process, SVA has taken a conscious and active stance towards recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we do not wish to be contacted by advertising salespeople or recruitment agencies.

Grow and develop at SVA – welcome with your application!

SVA values a good balance between work and private life. As an employee, you will enjoy favorable holiday conditions (28–35 days), the possibility of flexible working hours, fitness activities during work hours, and access to a staff gym. You can also engage in our staff associations focusing on sports, music, and dogs. Read more about our benefits here (#).