Company description

Enabling fossil-free energy that drives society forward - that is our purpose. We are looking for talented students who want to help us on our journey towards fossil-free By writing a thesis at Vattenfall, you get a unique opportunity to contribute to our purpose.

About the role

About the thesis

The group has the overall design responsibility for control, regulation, signaling and alarm management of the plants at Forsmark.

In the nuclear power industry, many plant changes take place in project form where requirements management is a critical part of the work. Today, requirements are often handled in Word documents and requirement matrices in Excel format. These have no intelligence, making follow-up and traceability difficult and unstructured. There are advanced tools such as IBM DOORS, but these are often too complex for our needs.

The purpose of this thesis is to develop a user-friendly tool or template that supports requirements management according to the V-model (Model for Verification and Validation). The tool should enable:

• Decomposition of overall requirements into underlying requirements.
• Traceability between requirements and their origin.
• Visual overview, e.g. requirements tree or links between documents.
• Documentation of why a requirement exists.
• How a requirement is verified or validated.

The output of the job should be:

• A concrete tool or template (e.g. in Excel or other established software).
• A method for requirements decomposition and traceability.
• An evaluation of existing tools/methods.
• A visual model (preferably based on the V model) showing the relationships of the requirements.

This assignment is for 1 student.

Requirements specification

We are looking for student(s) who want to work towards fossil free and who will soon graduate from your academic studies. You are also someone who identifies with our principles: Active, Open, Positive and Safety.

Education: Preferably a civil engineer or university engineer in electrical engineering, energy systems, nuclear program.

You should have an interest in:

• System development or technical documentation.
• Requirements management and project methodology.
• Visualization and structuring of information.

Scope: 15 credits or 30 credits.

Language skills: Swedish.

Additional information

• The assignment starts: spring semester 2026 by agreement
• Location: Forsmark
• Application - a file with your CV and a copy of your grades.
• Last day to apply is 2025-10-26.
• Contact person and supervisor at Vattenfall: Johannes Sundström
• Johannes.sundstrom@vattenfall.com, 072 538 28 71

Diversity and inclusion - in everything we do

We are convinced that heterogeneous teams can outperform homogeneous teams. But we can only unleash and use the power of diversity when everyone feels included. Read more about our important work with diversity and inclusion https://careers.vattenfall.com/se/sv/jobba-med-oss/mangfald-inkludering

About Vattenfall

At Vattenfall, we are committed to enabling fossil freedom. To succeed, as one of Europe's largest energy companies, we must first become completely fossil-free ourselves. But that is not enough. To contribute to a fossil-free society, we need to do more than just focus on sustainable energy production.

Because we are convinced that we need to enable fossil-free, we need to look at the challenge from a broader perspective than just producing energy in a sustainable way.

Join us on the road to fossil-free.

Want to know more about us? Visit www.vattenfall.se

Vattenfall is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure and our operations are subject to rules on security protection, nuclear non-proliferation and export control. Due to these rules, a check of the candidate is carried out for many of the positions in our operations before employment takes place. For those positions that lead to participation in security-sensitive activities or placement in a security class, this control means that security clearance is carried out in accordance with the Security Protection Act.