Company description

Vattenfall Services Nordic AB builds, maintains and develops energy solutions for energy and electricity plants. We develop Sweden's energy infrastructure to create a sustainable future where we find new innovations that contribute to a fossil-free society. We work with many different customers and suppliers that involve major investments for the energy transition. With us, you work in a socially important business and make sure everything works.

Together we create Sweden's safest workplace!

About the role

Vattenfall Services Nordic and the Forest, Land & Environment business area continue to grow and for our forestry department in central Sweden we are now looking for a new employee with experience of harvesting management / production management. Are you interested in people, forests and technology? Then you may be the one we are looking for for the role of Felling Manager!

The Forest, Land & Environment business area is organized into six departments and sells consulting services to network and energy companies throughout the country. In the forestry part, these services consist of land negotiation for infrastructure projects and project management of forest maintenance and other measures at existing and new facilities.

We see that our market is growing and therefore we need to hire the employees today who in a couple of years will take on the major land access and maintenance assignments that we see on the horizon. We are therefore looking for you who want to be part of the solution as we together create the conditions for living a fossil-free life within a generation. In this position, you will have the opportunity to use your forestry skills in large and small infrastructure projects while collaborating with people with different education and background.

Our department is growing and we now see a need for a Forest Inspector who preferably works with planning and harvesting management in our ongoing drives.

As a Forest Inspector/Felling Manager with us, you are responsible for felling within the department's maintenance and infrastructure projects. This role is relatively new to us but there is already an established network of contacts with contractors and working methods, you will continue to develop the role together with the head of department and colleagues with the aim of having clearer interfaces with other functions in the department. Field and office work are roughly equal parts of the role.

The following are some of your main duties:

• Felling management, felling planning
• Pricing of felling services
• Follow-up of quality and environmental issues within the area of responsibility
• Responsibility for business relations with our contractors
• Development issues within the function
• Overall responsibility for planning and following up the work
• You will be an important cog in connection with the procurement of resources
• Create and maintain a good working climate among contractors, colleagues and clients

Requirements

As a Felling Manager with us, you need the following qualifications:

• An academic education such as forester, hunter, forestry candidate or similar
• You have worked with production management / planning for a couple of years and are now ready to link your skills with other functions in an organization that is new to you
• We see it as a merit with experience of both harvesting planning and production management in forestry projects
• Good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, preferably also English
• It is a requirement that you have good computer skills and a B driving license

To succeed in the role of Felling Manager with us, you need to have a great drive and a business approach where you are triggered by challenges and find satisfaction in achieving set goals. Since you will have contact with many external actors, you find it motivating to create and nurture relationships. You do this preferably by being communicative and cooperative.

Further information

We offer

We give you the opportunity and freedom to manage your time towards concrete goals in a corporate culture characterized by entrepreneurial spirit and where creativity, independence and result orientation are key concepts. At Vattenfall Services, we work customer-oriented in a goal-driven and project-oriented organization. We also have a lot of other employee benefits such as reduced working hours, favorable occupational pension agreements, parental leave allowance and more. Read more about our benefits here.

Location

Flexible location in Svealand (e.g. Uppsala, Solna, Västerås) where we apply home posting. However, we value competence before geographical location, therefore other locations can be discussed. Please indicate the desired location in your application!

In this position, travel by car within Svealand is part of the work. Overnight stays occur a couple of times during the year.

Contact

For further information about the position, you are welcome to contact recruiting manager Kristin Olovsson, kristin.olovsson@vattenfall.com. For information about the recruitment process, please contact recruiter Renée Li, renee.li@vattenfall.com

Trade union representatives are Caroline Trogen Unionen, Robert Lönnqvist SEKO, Torbjörn Blom Akademikerna and Magnus Tjergefors Ledarna. You can reach everyone via Vattenfall's switchboard, tel. 08-739 50 00.

Does this feel like a job for you? You are warmly welcome with your application by May 21, 2025! We do not accept personal letters in the application. You apply quickly and easily by answering selection questions and attaching your CV.

Vattenfall is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, thus many of our services are security classified. If this position is security classified, a security clearance will be carried out before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act. In addition to security screening, a drug test is done.

Because the safety of Vattenfall and its employees is paramount, we will conduct a pre-employment screening prior to each hire. These checks are based on the role you will fill within Vattenfall.

We believe that diversity helps build a more profitable and appealing company and strive to be good role models when it comes to diversity.