Senior Electrical Power Engineer
Västerås, Sverige
Type of Employment Full-time
Job position Electrical engineer
Work model On location
Application due date 11 August 2025
Are you the one?

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.


Role and responsibilities

Now, at ABB Electrification, we are looking for an electrical power engineer who has extensive experience in the electric power industry and who wants to become part of our project organization!

Here you will be a key player who will have the opportunity to work with leading technology and exciting projects at a global company. You will be the cohesive link to design the technical solution in our projects and be involved from design to commissioning. We are looking for you who like challenging projects, are responsible and create sustainable solutions with structure and quality.

You report to the Manager Project Operations. The position is preferably located in Västerås but other locations are considered.

Responsibilities:

  • In the role, you will have the opportunity to take personal responsibility for the design work while being part of the project team where you work together to ensure technical solutions and good project deliveries on behalf of our customers.
  • Ensure that the solution with associated construction meets the customer's requirements, laws and standards.
  • Examples of documentation that may need to be constructed or revised:
  • Circuit diagrams
  • Interior/exterior connection tables
  • Appliance lists
  • Cable lists
  • Layouts (control cabinets, switchgear fronts, rooms/buildings)
  • The role includes obtaining information from our customers, conducting site visits and sometimes participating in testing and commissioning.


Your background

  • You have good technical knowledge of electrical power acquired through practical experience in the field as a service technician or control system engineer, for example. It is an advantage if you have a university engineering degree with a specialization in electrical power.
  • You have a good technical understanding of the structure of the electrical system, from low to medium voltage. Meritorious if you have knowledge and experience of ABB's switchgear and its components.
  • You have good knowledge and experience of design in AutoCad, ElProCad and / or elMaster.
  • You are a structured person who likes to design and analyze and understand the problems of electric power facilities to find qualitative solutions.
  • You have good experience of working with relay protection, design and installation. Previous experience in configuration, 61850 protocols, testing & commissioning and troubleshooting is meritorious.
  • Electrical Installation Authorization A, AL is meritorious
  • You are committed, thorough and like to work towards set goals and deadlines.
  • You are service-oriented and have the ability to communicate clearly both in speech and writing in Swedish and English, both internally and to external parties.
  • As travel is included in the service, it is required that you have a B driving license.


This is what we offer you

Take responsibility, share bold ideas and achieve concrete results with us. You will develop through hands-on experience, mentoring and lifelong learning aligned with your goals. Here, your work doesn't just make a difference - it drives progress.

At ABB, you'll receive benefits that support you throughout your career - from health to retirement.


More about us

ABB Electrification Service is a leading provider of products and services for the aftermarket of electrical power plants, primarily low and medium voltage substations. We strive to be close to our customers and are represented around Sweden - from Gällivare in the north to Malmö in the south. Our mission is to maximize the availability, reliability and predictability of electrical power while helping our customers reduce their environmental impact. We cover the entire life cycle of the plant from commissioning to replacement.

With us, you work independently but are part of a skilled team consisting of tender engineers, designer and project manager in low and medium voltage switchgear. The rest of the organization consists of salespeople, service coordinators, contract managers, administrative staff and our service engineers who help our customers on site every day.

ABB Electrification Service has about 60 employees in ten locations throughout Sweden. We have a wide product program and help customers to ensure the availability of their installed base. Our customers are in paper & pulp, ironworks, energy companies, electricity grid companies, water & sewage, chemical and mining industries.

Recruiting Manager Andreas Norgren, +46 706 16 45 57, will be happy to answer your questions about the service. Union representatives - Sveriges Ingenjörer: Senad Hujic, +46 730 88 30 06; Unionen: Hannah Norén, +46 706 34 03 46; Ledarna: Lenny Larsson, +46 706 32 85 47.

We look forward to reading your application in PDF format. Last day to apply is August 11. We work with continuous selection, which means that the position may be filled before the deadline. Please also note that we do not make any selection during the summer, do not expect any feedback until mid-late August.

Please note that the hiring process at ABB Sweden includes a reference check, a drug test and in some recruitments also an extended background check.

We kindly decline direct contact with staffing and recruitment companies as well as sellers of additional job ads.

We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe.