Incident Commander/Fire Engineer
Kiruna, Sverige
Ansettelsestype Full-time
Jobbposisjon Fire engineer
Arbeidsmodell On location
Søknadsfrist October 23rd, 2025
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In many ways, Kiruna is a municipality of extremes. Here the light is brighter, the cold colder, the mountains higher, the areas larger and the location more northerly than anywhere else in Sweden. A special place. At 19,447 square kilometers, Kiruna municipality is as big as Skåne, Blekinge and Halland combined. Kiruna municipality has around 18,000 inhabitants living in the central town and the rest spread across 50 or so villages. It is a trilingual area, where the Swedish, Sami and Tornedalian cultures live side by side. We are the city that is constantly changing during an extensive societal transformation with many exciting challenges for us who work at the rescue service. We look forward to hearing from you! WORK TASKS At the rescue service in Kiruna, all staff work with both preventive and operational tasks. As an incident commander/fire engineer, you must be able to function in various management functions during emergency services, carry out inspections in accordance with the Act on Protection against Accidents (LSO) and the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods (LBE). You will also make risk assessments, make response plans, handle referrals, provide fire engineering advice and other tasks relevant to the service. The work also includes being able to provide training both internally and externally. You are expected to be able to work independently on your own cases, but the work also requires close cooperation with colleagues, the public and other collaborating authorities. We have a well-developed collaboration with the other rescue services in Räddningssamverkan Nord with a joint Rescue Center in Luleå. Together with the other members of Räddningssamverkan Nord, we staff several different joint management functions that are based on the Rescue Center in Luleå. We also have a developed collaboration with our neighbors in Norway and Finland. The rescue service in Kiruna municipality is under development with lots of exciting challenges and an urban transformation that means that you will therefore have as a natural part of the work to improve and develop processes, routines and working methods in the business. In the role of incident commander/fire engineer, you will have daily contact with Kiruna's residents, companies, other authorities and the like. QUALIFICATIONS We see that you are a fire engineer with additional training in rescue services for fire engineers or have a rescue leader training with MSB / Rescue Agency and / or experience that the employer considers equivalent. Driving license B is a requirement. Experience from work in the rescue service and work management is an advantage. Previous work with supervision or fire protection planning according to LSO/LBE i is also an advantage. We would like to see that you have good insight into the law on protection against accidents and other laws and regulations that govern and affect the work of the rescue service. We assume that you have good computer skills in the commonly used computer programs and express yourself well in speech and writing. We are looking for a positive, structured and self-motivated person who has the ability to cooperate and enjoys working in a team. We attach great importance to leadership qualities and that you are the right person for the team you will join. Qualities we value are that you are responsive and that you have the ability to create good trust and a climate of cooperation. Kiruna municipality's values of respect, responsibility and collaboration in Kiruna municipality are a natural part of your leadership. As the rescue service is undergoing intensive change and there are major challenges in the work with Kiruna's urban transformation, we attach great importance to you being flexible and change-prone. We also consider it positive if you have experience of working in a politically controlled organization. The position is located at security level. A B driving license is a requirement. Interviews may take place during the recruitment process. OTHER To work with us, you must share Kiruna municipality's common values where respect, responsibility and collaboration are the key words. We offer a pleasant working environment and stimulating tasks and that you as an employee get a good balance between work and leisure. We have many different benefits where you as an employee can train free of charge at various training facilities up to SEK 5000 / year, we have cabins in the mountains that you can rent, we offer the opportunity to exchange salary for days off. We strive for gender balance and see diversity as a strength, we welcome employees with different backgrounds and work to ensure that our workplaces are accessible to everyone. Kiruna municipality sees full-time as a right and part-time as an opportunity. It is an advantage if you have knowledge of Finnish, Sami and/or Meänkieli as Kiruna municipality is an administrative area for these languages. Kiruna municipality has made media choices for this recruitment and therefore refrains from contact with ad sellers or other sellers of recruitment services.