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Do you want to work with animal welfare and food safety, supported by competent and helpful colleagues? Do you want an employer that invests in sustainable employment and offers secure, advantageous working conditions? Welcome to the role of Official Veterinarian at the Swedish Food Agency!

A sustainable employment

The Swedish Food Agency works actively to offer all employees a sustainable employment. We provide you with a good introduction when you start with us, and we offer secure working conditions. We want you to feel that it is fun to go to work, and that what you do is important. As an Official Veterinarian, you contribute to Sweden having good animal welfare and safe food.

As a veterinarian at the Swedish Food Agency, you have independent work, but when facing difficult decisions and situations, your knowledgeable colleagues are just a call away. Here you become part of a team where we help and support each other in daily work. Together we make a difference!

A socially important mission

As an Official Veterinarian, you contribute to Sweden having good animal welfare and safe food. In the work, you are responsible for live animal inspection and post-mortem inspection, but export control may also be included. Depending on your experience and personal qualities, other tasks may also become relevant, such as investigations, support work, or handling more complex issues within control.

As a public authority official, you have an important mission towards the business owner. You have a control function, but you must also act as support and facilitate for the business owner to do the right thing. You do this by informing about what good animal welfare entails, the animals' needs and species-specific characteristics, and by helping to create an understanding of hygiene and food safety in food production. The role also includes authority reporting, administration, and a fair amount of car travel.

About the team

You will belong to the team West Scania and Halland. Here you work together with engaged and nice colleagues, both official veterinarians and food controllers. We are a cheerful and open-hearted group that takes advantage of our individual and common strengths.

The team's facilities, which mainly consist of a large pig slaughterhouse and a medium-sized cattle and sheep slaughterhouse, as well as several smaller slaughterhouses and game handling facilities, are located from Trelleborg in the south to Kungsbacka in the north. The team has close cooperation with the poultry team and FBO (Food Business Operator) control during slaughter and export control.

Your competencies

To work as an Official Veterinarian with us, you must have a Swedish veterinary license or a veterinary license from another country approved by the Swedish Board of Agriculture for professional practice in Sweden. You must also have a B driver's license, good knowledge of Swedish, and be able to understand and make yourself understood in English. Good administrative skills and IT knowledge are also highly valued for this position. Experience with public authority exercise, control work, and export handling is meritorious.

As a person, you need to be unpretentious, flexible, punctual, efficient, and able to make your own well-founded decisions and initiatives. You have high personal maturity with the ability to reflect on your own strengths and areas for development, and you can see and contribute to the whole. You dare to make the decisions required in consultation with your colleagues and manager. You have good cooperation skills and help unpretentiously where needed. You keep yourself updated on the latest in your field of knowledge and are happy to share your knowledge and experience, while also being open to learning from others. It is together with your colleagues that you succeed and develop! Conversations in meetings with business owners and in contact with other stakeholders are also part of the work, which requires that you are clear, professional, and responsive in your communication. We will place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Welcome to contact us

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact the recruiting team leader Charlotta Wisbrant. Representative for Saco-S is Nora Arifali and for ST Fredrik Olsson. All can be reached via our switchboard, tel. +46 18-17 55 00.

The last day for applications is 2026-08-24. Apply via the job advertisement on the Swedish Food Agency's website (https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/om-oss/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb), mark the application with case number 2026/01829. The application must be written in Swedish.

More information about the position

Employment type: Permanent, full-time

Start date: As soon as possible, according to agreement

Organizational affiliation: The Unit for Food Control in Southern Sweden

Location: After discussion, but current locations are Helsingborg, Svedala, Trelleborg, or Ängelholm.

All permanent staff at the Swedish Food Agency are war-placed within the authority.

Before the interview

Grades/certificates and ID documents that support your application should be brought to a possible interview. We will also request references.

More about the Swedish Food Agency

The Swedish Food Agency works to ensure that the food produced, sold, and served in Sweden is safe and honest, for a society where it is easy for people to eat in a healthy and sustainable way, and a secure food and drinking water supply in everyday life and crisis. Our tools are knowledge, advice, rules, and control. In total, we have about 700 employees, of which over 390 are in Uppsala and another approx. 300 who work with food control out in the country.