Vacant job

Do you want a key role where you contribute daily to operational success?

Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural surroundings with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is located just a 20-minute drive from Gothenburg and is currently in a period of intensive development with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Dagens Samhälle named Lerum the winner in the category of large municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas such as education, healthcare and social care, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business life, and future factors like digitalization and civil preparedness. Lerum is, therefore, a Super Municipality!

Now, the Staffing Unit is looking for a customer-oriented staffing planner to join our dedicated team. This position is a fixed-term assignment as one of our colleagues is going to study.

We value a workplace with a high ceiling

We value a workplace with a high ceiling, strong team spirit, and a culture where development and cross-boundary collaboration are a natural part of everyday life. Together, we create good service and secure solutions in the meeting between substitutes and operations. We do this with quality, care, and professionalism.

Who are we?

Today, the team consists of two system administrators, seven recruiters, and four staffing planners. We work in an open-plan office located centrally in Lerum, with free parking and close to the train and bus stations.

Working Hours

As a staffing planner, you have annual working hours and work according to a schedule. Work shifts are scheduled between 06:30 and 16:30.

The Mandate of the Staffing Unit

Our mandate is to employ hourly-paid staff and assign work shifts during short-term absences and increased workload within the Education Sector, Support and Care Sector, and Meal Service. Through our work, we directly contribute to operations functioning - every day.

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Job Responsibilities

As a staffing planner, together with your colleagues, you have overall responsibility for the staffing planning of hourly substitutes within the Support and Care Sector, Education Sector, and Meal Service. You ensure that the operations' personnel needs are met during short-term absences and periods of high workload.

This means that you:

• Prioritize and match hourly substitutes to vacant shifts
• Redistribute resources when needs change
• Participate in improvement work that develops and shapes future staffing solutions

In the role, you have daily contact with several parties to ensure well-functioning staffing. This means that you:

• Have ongoing dialogue with hourly substitutes and weigh their availability and wishes against the needs of the operations
• Collaborate with coordinators, administrators, and managers in the operations
• Collaborate with the Staffing Unit's recruiters
• Communicate via email, phone, and Teams

The work also includes administration related to the Staffing Unit's mandate, for example, during on- and offboarding. You work daily in the systems Time Care and Heroma as well as the Office package.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are proactive and have the ability to see the big picture. You have gained experience in this in previous service roles where you have had contact with many different people. You see collaboration as a given and enjoy structuring and driving your work forward independently. You are good at creating and maintaining good relationships and show understanding for people's different conditions and needs.

Since the workload at the Staffing Unit is high at times, you need to be able to adapt to rapid changes, work solution-oriented, and make well-considered prioritizations. The role also requires good communication skills and clarity in dialogue with different target groups.

A high school diploma and good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, are required. Knowledge of the Office package is meritorious.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

The position is a fixed-term assignment of 9 months.

We warmly welcome your application!

Employment Type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer, start date: 2026-08-24, end date: 2027-06-27.
Working Hours: Daytime.

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our management is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and develop the individual, the operation, and society positively. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for gender equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and offensive behavior.

We value a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee, you will have access to a number of benefits, such as a wellness allowance and an employee welfare program.

Lerum Municipality is covered by the Main Agreement HÖK and the General Provisions AB collective agreement. We apply individual and differentiated wage setting, and the individual wage is influenced by both the complexity of the position and your competence and experience.

In accordance with the Pay Transparency Directive, we have made wage statistics available on our website, and you can find information about our collective agreement, employee benefits, and the applicable wage range for the current position here:

Read more about salary and benefits (https://lerum.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/din-lon-och-dina-formaner)

Neither the employer nor the job seeker is bound by this information. The information serves only as a notification for you as a job seeker.

As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use personal Bank-ID in the service for authentication in, for example, system login or other verification.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

We warmly welcome your application!

In connection with this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.