Job Description

Diversity, efficiency, innovation, and attractiveness!

The municipality’s core values—MENA (Diversity, Efficiency, Innovation, and Attractiveness)—are a natural part of your leadership style.

We are looking for a positive, organized, and self-motivated individual who is a team player and enjoys working in a group. We place great emphasis on leadership qualities and ensuring you are the right fit for the team you will join. Qualities we value include being responsive and having the ability to build trust and foster a collaborative environment.

We are expanding our team with Assistant Shift Leaders across our 4 shift teams. At Gällivare Rescue Services, you’ll work as a key team member in a small organization. We cover a large geographical area, ranging from mines to mountains and vast mountain forests. Most of the municipality’s residents live in the town of Gällivare, where our full-time station is also located. In our villages, we have five volunteer fire departments that assist us by being first on the scene and providing initial assistance.

We handle approximately 300 emergency calls per year.

We collaborate with our neighboring municipalities and the industrial fire departments in the area.  

Working in the municipality of Gällivare is characterized by job satisfaction, commitment, and respect for the equal value of all people. At Gällivare Rescue Services, it goes without saying that everyone should feel accepted and enjoy their work, regardless of origin or gender. 

Gällivare Rescue Service strives to be an attractive workplace where employees are given opportunities for personal development.

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Team Leader, Gällivare Municipality

As an Assistant Team Leader, you will supervise staff in both daily operations and emergency response. You will work closely with the regular team leader on the shift. Together, you will plan and be responsible for the daily work at the station, as well as other tasks related to preventive and operational activities.

Being a team leader involves leading and planning your own and the team’s work based on the entire emergency services’ mission, which means that you and your staff will work on both accident prevention and damage mitigation tasks.

You are independently responsible for your own cases and tasks, but the work also requires close collaboration with colleagues and other agencies in your area.

The emergency services in Gällivare Municipality are currently being developed, and you will therefore play a natural role in the work to improve and develop the processes, procedures, and working methods within the organization. You are expected to have the ambition and desire to develop the organization in accordance with the municipality’s operational goals, together with the unit manager.

In the role of team leader, you will also be in contact with Gällivare residents, businesses, other government agencies, and similar entities.

We are looking for a positive, organized, and self-motivated person who is able to collaborate and enjoys working in a team. We place great emphasis on leadership qualities and ensuring you are the right fit for the team you will join. Qualities we value include being responsive and having the ability to build trust and foster a collaborative environment.

You should have several years of experience working in emergency services.

We expect you to have a good understanding of the Act on Protection against Accidents and other laws and regulations that govern and affect the work of emergency services.

We require that you have strong computer skills in commonly used software programs and are able to express yourself clearly both verbally and in writing, in order to, among other things, train your own staff and members of the community. You are independent, responsible, and able to communicate both verbally and in writing in a manner that inspires confidence.

You must be committed to helping drive the organization’s future development.

Since the emergency services are undergoing an intensive transformation process and the work involves significant challenges, we place great importance on your flexibility and willingness to adapt to change. We also view it as a positive if you have experience working in a politically governed organization.

To thrive in the role of team leader, you need the ability to make well-founded decisions on your own based on the organization’s core values and goals. It is important that you have a broad perspective and can see the big picture in your approach to work.

As an assistant team leader, you must also be able to serve as a firefighter and in the role of smoke diver leader.

Before employment begins, an aptitude test will be conducted, and you must pass a medical examination; to be hired, you must be certified as a smoke diver in accordance with the Swedish Work Environment Authority’s regulations.

Qualifications

• Approved and completed SMO or GRIB, along with experience in operational emergency services or older training that we deem equivalent. Driver’s license, minimum Class C
• LK 1 Team Leader or older equivalent
• Meet the requirements for smoke and chemical diving
• Inspection A with a passing grade
• Passed treadmill test in accordance with AFS 2007:7 (no older than 3 months) must be attached to the application.
• Good swimming ability; at least a Guldbojen certificate must be attached to the application
• Class BC driver’s license
• Good teamwork skills
• Good administrative skills and computer proficiency
• You are committed, driven, and responsible

Meritorious:

• LK2 Incident Commander or higher equivalent
• Snowmobile license
• CPR instructor
• Management or leadership experience

Other:

Great importance is placed on personal suitability.

Work Hours/Duration

Full-time, permanent position

A 6-month probationary period applies

Salary

Monthly salary; we use individual salary setting – please state your salary expectations in your application.

Start Date / Application

Please include a resume and a cover letter with your application.

We also require a treadmill test (no older than 3 months), a certificate from Guldbojen with a passing grade, and certificates for completed SMO and Tillsyn A training courses.

Original documents must be provided upon request.

Interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis.

Start date: As soon as possible or by agreement. Orientation begins 20260914

Application deadline: August 16, 2026

Number of positions: 3

Information

Unit Manager, Emma Franz 0970-818340 emma.franz@gallivare.se

Union representatives

Union, contact information: Kommunal, tel: 010-4429919, mailto:Gallivare.norrbotten@kommunal.se

Other

Gällivare Municipality offers you: Wellness benefits in the form of strength training/group training/Dundret (part-time, fixed-term, long-term temp)

• Wellness hour (part-time, fixed-term, long-term temp)
• Access to the workplace’s Well-being Allowance (permanent and fixed-term, long-term substitutes)
• Membership in GKFF (Gällivare Municipality’s recreational association) (all employees)
• Opportunity for vacation exchange (excluding vacation service, Pan, Bea, and those who have not earned full vacation time during the year)

We warmly welcome your application!