Head of Fuel
Umeå, Sverige
Type of Employment Full-time
Job position Site manager, construction
Work model On location
Application due date 17 August 2025
Are you the one?

By the people of Umeå, for the people of Umeå

We are an energy and communications company owned by Umeå municipality and everyone who lives here. With safe and accessible solutions, we ensure that a growing Umeå is always heated, lit and connected. By spreading knowledge, running community projects and supporting a vibrant community life, we are helping to shape the future.

Your mission

As a manager in fuel, you have an important role in creating the right conditions for your employees and you are responsible for all issues throughout the employee life cycle. You also have an important role in ensuring good fuel logistics. The fuel team includes crane operators, weighing station technicians, timber meters and fuel engineers. The role will involve, among other things:

  • Employee appraisals/salaries/individual review meetings
  • Distributed work environment responsibility and budget responsibility
  • Recruitment and competence planning
  • Driving change and development work based on set goals
  • Strategic, tactical and operational planning and prioritization for the competence area
  • Represent fuel in cross-functional forums
  • Ensure good fuel logistics and storage
  • Participation in management team work where you belong to a group with a number of managers and leaders in the sub-area
  • Many contact areas, both internally with production, purchasing, our fuel strategist and throughout the fuel process as well as externally with contractors, suppliers, etc.

What does a day at work look like

Together with your team, you are responsible for deliveries, handling and quality of fuels and waste. Furthermore, you ensure proper storage based on turnover, fire safety and legal requirements. Handling and processing of fuels and residual products is part of the assignment and you ensure, together with production, a good mix into our plants.

Umeå Energi is a company in constant development and in this role you will be involved in several of our forward-looking projects. We believe that you thrive and thrive in finding improvements that benefit both business and employees.

To succeed in the role, you have:

  • High school education in a relevant field or work experience deemed relevant
  • Several years of experience in a leadership role with personnel responsibility
  • Documented experience of running and developing a business in change
  • Good knowledge of Swedish and English
  • Driving license B.

Advantageous

  • A background in, for example, the energy industry, the forest industry, the waste industry, logistics
  • Knowledge of IFS.

Personal qualities

You work to create a pleasant working environment, have a good ability to cooperate and communicate in a clear and humble way. As a person, you are independent, driven, proactive and structured. You enjoy finding ways and opportunities forward for your and your team's work while interacting with other parts of the business.

With us you get more than a job:

  • A workplace where we care about each other and the people of Umeå
  • The opportunity to develop and make a difference - for real
  • Benefits that make everyday life a little easier

Read more about what it's like to work with us at jobb.umeaenergi.se

Welcome with your application no later than: 2025-08-17

For more information about the position, contact recruiting manager Alice Lindberg 070-3304362 who is available and back from vacation on August 8. Union representatives can be reached via our switchboard, 090-16 00 00.