Head of Environmental and Building Affairs in Hagfors Municipality

HAGFORS KOMMUN

Värmlands län, Hagfors

Previous experience is desired

31 days left
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WORKPLACE: SOCIAL PLANNING DEPARTMENT

The Environmental and Building department handles regulatory matters concerning construction, environment, health protection, food, alcohol, tobacco, over-the-counter medicines, and gaming. The department is organized under the Social Planning Department but has its own board. As the Head of Environmental and Building Affairs, you will be part of the Social Planning Department's management team and are expected to contribute a holistic perspective and add value to overarching strategic discussions, planning issues, and development goals.

As the Head of Environmental and Building Affairs in Hagfors Municipality, you will play a key role in our vision "Hagfors Municipality 2027 – Attractive." The vision is intended to unite everyone who lives, works, and operates in the municipality and guide us in creating a good life, forward momentum, and drive together. It is a future image that makes us proud residents and enables us to meet the future with courage and positive attitudes. The vision should engage and inspire both in daily life, leisure time, and working life. Please read more about our vision, strengths, prioritized areas, and goals at hagforsstrategin.se.

The Social Planning Department is responsible, in addition to environmental and building affairs, for physical planning, climate and environmental work, property management, technical supply, and a wide range of internal services to our operations. The department also manages the municipality's airport, Hagfors Airport.

DUTIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

As the Head of Environmental and Building Affairs at Hagfors Municipality, you will work with both local and regional issues and collaborate closely with the Head of Social Planning. You will actively participate in the department's strategic assignments.

You have budget and result responsibility for your operations, as well as personnel responsibility for the employees within the department. Since the operation is small, some case handling may occur, but primarily you are expected to ensure that the employees have the right competence and prerequisites to handle the department's issues independently and efficiently with a high level of service orientation.

For Hagfors Municipality, it is important that the operations are characterized by a humble attitude towards the mission and the challenges that the operation's customers and counterparts face. As the head of operations, you should strive for a good working and conversational climate where we prefer to help rather than hinder.

To succeed in the role of Head of Environmental and Building Affairs, you need to be humble but clear in your leadership, have excellent cooperation skills, and good communication skills. It is essential that you have the ability to put your role and work into a larger perspective. Great emphasis will be placed on your personal qualities.

We are looking for you with a relevant university degree, for example in environmental law, planning and building law, or other education that, individually or in combination with work experience, can be assessed as equivalent by us as employers. Previous experience of leadership within municipal or public operations and regulatory authority is meritorious.

You speak and write fluent Swedish and have good knowledge of English in speech and writing. A driver's license with category B is required.

Great emphasis will be placed on your personal qualities. A personality test may be conducted at a later stage of the recruitment process.

SALARY

We apply individual salary setting; please state your salary requirements.

UNION REPRESENTATIVES

You can reach Vision, Ledarna, or SSR through Hagfors Municipality's switchboard, 0563-185 00.

OTHER

We have made our choice for this recruitment and therefore decline contact with advertising salespeople or other sellers of recruitment services.

Hagfors Municipality offers you great opportunities for balance in life. You can build a career while enjoying a good life with quality of life. Here you will find a brave people with forward momentum who appreciate the combination of the small town's potential and proximity to magnificent nature.

Our dynamic business life strengthens the municipality and puts Hagfors on the map internationally. The local airport makes it close to Stockholm and the rest of the world, creating opportunities in both work and private life.

Here we help each other create a rich life and together we make an attractive municipality possible. Read more about the work in Hagforsstrategin.

A extract from the police record may be requested upon employment.

In the position at Hagfors Municipality, BankID is required for certain tasks.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING YOUR APPLICATION!

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