The urban planning administration in Umeå municipality consists of Environmental and Health Protection, Building Permits, Detailed Planning and Surveying. The administration has approximately 200 employees. Our goal is to contribute to a safe, secure and long-term sustainable society with good living environments. Umeå municipality wants to grow sustainably and strengthen environmental and sustainability work in the municipality. A development strategy for water and wastewater has been developed with the aim of achieving good status in water bodies, securing water quality at bathing sites, securing drinking water supplies, and promoting cost-effective and sustainable wastewater solutions. The development strategy for water and wastewater consists of several parts, including a plan for individual wastewater management with the aim of ensuring that all individual sewers in the municipality meet the applicable treatment requirements under the Environmental Code. Based on the strategy for water and sewage and the action plan, supervision of small sewers will be planned and carried out within a limited time period. We are now looking for a unit manager for a newly started unit Small sewers, at the Environmental and Health Protection Department at the City Planning Administration. We know that differences enrich and welcome everyone to apply for a job with us. Your tasks The assignment includes responsibility and development linked to personnel, budget, work environment and other operational issues. As of 2025, the Small Sewers unit will have approximately 12-15 employees. We offer you Close cooperation and support from colleagues, manager and HR A management and leadership development program Continuous skills development Flexible working hours Subsidized health care Read more about our benefits here. About you We are looking for you who have; higher education in the field of environmental and health protection or equivalent work experience in supervision and testing under the Environmental Code documented experience of leadership work. As a person, you are driven, clear, goal-oriented and committed. You are confident, responsive and well acquainted with a trust-based and coaching leadership. You are communicative and easy to collaborate with, while you have the ability to make decisions and are results-oriented. You have the ability to think strategically in order to see the bigger picture As a manager in Umeå municipality, we want you to represent the municipality in a trustworthy and positive way. You focus on the benefit to citizens and engage in dialog with your employees about goals and plans so that they understand their role and importance for the whole. It is also important that you stand for common values and are a role model for your colleagues. You encourage your staff to be curious, creative and collaborative, and make both the individual employee and the team visible. We attach great importance to your personal qualities. About Umeå municipality Umeå municipality is the region's largest employer with over 13,000 employees. The municipality has about 440 managers and the business is divided into eight administrations. Our jobs and our values are based on citizen focus, openness, trust and continuous improvement. Umeå is a cultural city in constant development. To meet the target of 200,000 inhabitants by 2050, we need more people working for growth and welfare. We know that diversity enriches and welcome everyone to apply for jobs with us. Over the next ten years, we will be hiring around a thousand people every year. Do you want to join us? Find out what it's like to live in Umeå here: https://www.umea.se/flytta Umeå municipality is part of three administrative areas for Finnish, Meänkieli and Sami www.umea.se/minoriteter. As an employee of Umeå municipality, you can take advantage of a number of benefits. Take part of our benefits https://umea.se/jobbochforetagande/jobbochpraktik/kommunensomarbetsgivare/varaformaner.4.1b4d24fb1752122eb843bf.html Do you sell ads or offer recruitment support? Please do not contact us about it! We select and contact the companies we work with ourselves.