Vocational teacher for the Industrial Technology Program, Dragon School Type of Employment Full-time
Job position Vocational teachers
Work model On location
Application due date 16 June 2025
Are you the one? We work together to help children and young people develop and grow up safely.
We teach children to read, write and count. We help develop children's imagination and belief in their own abilities. We support children and young people to live an independent life. We have Sweden's most important job - our mission is to give young people confidence in the future.
Dragonskolan is Umeå's largest meeting place for young people! Here you will meet 2,000 students in a newly renovated building. We have a wide range of programs, courses and options that allow students to shape their own education. We offer good and up-to-date teaching and a pleasant environment in modern premises. The school has a Technology Center that aims to create Sweden's best arena for technology education in close collaboration with the business community.
Becoming part of Dragonskolan's Technology Center offers exciting development opportunities and active collaboration with working life. Together with prominent technology companies in large parts of northern Sweden, we conduct technology and industrial technology upper secondary education, but also technology education at post-secondary level within Umeå University of Applied Sciences.
We are now looking for a proud vocational teacher for education in the industrial technology program at Dragonskolan.
Your tasks
Your mission will be to educate at upper secondary level, for work in the industrial and technical field. You thus have a unique opportunity to shape and influence future employees in Swedish industry for a developing and sustainable future. The assignment includes:
Being involved in the work with our education at upper secondary level and possibly our contract education
Planning, implementation and follow-up of teaching based on the curriculum, current syllabi and close cooperation with your colleagues in the education and with companies on APL
Mentoring and parental contacts
About you
We are looking for you who like to work with teaching and have competence in welding technology (e.g. TIG, MAG, MMA) and vocational theory. We would like to see that you have a vocational teacher's degree with qualifications in the Industrial Technical subjects at upper secondary level or you have equivalent competence from industry.
It is also advantageous if you have:
Experience of teaching in the industrial program or other teaching
Good IT skills
Knowledge and experience in APL; procurement, coordination and planning
You are part of a team where you share tasks and together create a stimulating work environment with collegial learning. You see it as a matter of course to contribute to the other daily work and to actively work to support and motivate the young people and any adult students in their development, both socially and knowledge-wise. We want you to have a good knowledge of the sector and a good ability to cooperate and plan your activities.
A B license is a requirement for this position and heavy lifting is involved.
Welcome with your application! You can either attach your CV and personal letter or fill in your details in the application form. If you have a teacher's license, attach it.
As a result of the law on suitability control, an extract from the police's criminal record must be presented upon employment.
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