Company description
VB Energikoncernen is an environmentally and work environment certified energy company with headquarters in Ludvika. The business with about 75 employees includes electricity sales, district heating, electricity distribution and operation of hydropower stations. The company's main owner is Vattenfall with Ludvika municipality and Fagersta municipality as co-owners. Please visit our website vbenergi.se for further information.
Vattenfall is one of Europe's largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 21,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming lives through innovation for over a century. We now want to make it possible to live fossil-free and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.
About the role
Would you like to work as a Planning Engineer within regional grids with us at VB Elnät and contribute to fossil freedom?
Investing, expanding and maintaining the electricity grid is part of our everyday life. The electricity network is monitored around the clock via our operations center in Ludvika. We are also responsible for measuring how much electricity our customers use. Within Västerbergslagens Elnät, we are currently 28 employees who together accelerate our digital transformation, test and implement new technology that contributes to increased delivery reliability and delivery quality for our customers. We are in a growth phase with major investment plans and to meet our customers' needs and contribute to the energy transition, we are now looking for a Planning engineer in regional networks. Do you want to join our journey?
Your responsibilities
As a Regional Grid Planning Engineer you will contribute to the energy transition by creating a more flexible and smarter grid for our customers. You will plan and implement electricity network projects within regional networks and be responsible for the progress, economy, quality and safety of the projects. You will:
- plan and participate in projects
- responsible for finance and follow-up
- interact with customers and suppliers
- contribute to internal projects
You will belong to a workplace characterized by commitment, cooperation and openness. The organization is small and family-oriented, creating a strong sense of community and high standards. We support each other and offer a varied workday. There are good opportunities for development and training.
Requirements
- Engineering education or equivalent work experience that is considered equivalent
- A few years of experience in high voltage design
- Fluent Swedish and English in speech and writing is required
- Experience from the power industry is meritorious.
We are looking for you who thrive in a customer-oriented role where you get to drive your work forward together with others. You have the ability to see the big picture and plan ahead - especially when it comes to investments and development. You're used to working in a structured way and independently driving your projects forward. You have a high level of safety awareness and together we make it our top priority in our daily work.
Further information
We offer
In addition to being involved in shaping the smart energy society of the future, we offer you a developing and varied job with many contact surfaces. An opportunity to be part of a team that works together for a safe and stable operation and thus contributes to our customers receiving delivery of environmentally friendly energy. You get a varied everyday life with challenging tasks, the opportunity to develop both yourself and the business by participating in various projects and working on improvement measures. For us at Västerbergslagens Elnät, it is important that work and private life have a good balance, therefore we offer flexibility in work and the opportunity to work from home if necessary.
We also have a lot of other staff benefits such as reduced working hours, favorable occupational pension agreements, parental leave allowance and more. Read more about our benefits here: Welcome to us! (vbenergi.se).
Location: Ludvika.
For more information about the position, contact Lars Bertilsson, 076-763 45 77 lars.bertilsson@vbenergi.se. For questions about the recruitment process, contact recruiter Catalina Roa Rodriguez, catalina.roarodriguez@vattenfall.com.
Trade union representatives are Torbjörn Jonsson Unionen, Mikael Boström Sveriges Ingenjörer and Pertti Palonto SEKO. You can reach them through the switchboard at 0240-876 00.
Welcome with your application no later than July 27, 2025. Selection and interviews will take place after the deadline. We only accept applications via our website. We do not accept personal letters in the application. You apply quickly and easily by answering selection questions and attaching your CV.
We are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and appealing company and strive to be good role models when it comes to diversity. VB Elnät works actively to ensure that all employees have the same opportunities and rights regardless of age, ethnic or cultural background, gender, religion/belief, sexual orientation or disability. Read more about how we work with diversity and inclusion here.
VB Elnät is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, thus many of our services are security classified. If this service is security classified, security clearance will be carried out before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act.
Welcome with your application!