Company description
Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is Vattenfall's electricity network business and one of Sweden's largest electricity network companies. We are responsible for a socially critical infrastructure that distributes electricity to more than 900,000 companies and households. As an employee with us, you are part of our socially important business and contribute every day to a secure electricity supply for future generations.
Together we build the electricity grid of the future and enable the transition to a fossil-free society.
Read more about what it is like to work here.
About the role
Do you want an exciting everyday life and work for a fossil-free future? As an Electricity Network Engineer/Power System Analyst with us, you get to influence tomorrow's climate-smart society and create the electricity network of the future.
Sweden has embarked on a historic transition and is facing a comprehensive electrification of society. To demonstrate our ambition to contribute to the energy transition and to continue to enable increased electrification of Sweden, we aim to distribute twice as much electricity in our grid by 2030 and to transmit electricity with 99.99% reliability.
This means that Vattenfall Electricity Distribution needs to continue to grow and we are now looking for an Electricity Network Engineer/Power System Analyst who has experience of electricity networks (local or regional networks) and an interest in analysis and calculation.
Responsibilities
As an Electricity Network Engineer/Power System Analyst with us, you will be part of the Selective Planning unit with about 30 colleagues with great technical knowledge and experience of Sweden's regional and local networks. The work we do contributes to increasing Vattenfall Electricity Network's security of supply and is therefore an important piece of the puzzle in Sweden's green electrification.
In your role, you will mainly use your electrical power expertise for complex analyzes and calculations of relay protection settings, as well as be a requirement setter when designing relay protection systems that ensure reliable and safe fault disconnection in our electricity network.
You will work with:
- Investigations and fault analyses in case of operational disturbances
- Development of selective plans for local and regional networks
- Fault current calculations
- Participate in project groups for investment projects
- Management of control facilities
- Internal development of working methods
We work mainly from our offices, but have regular contact with operating staff and control facility engineers in the field. In addition, we often collaborate with other units within the company, such as: Grid Analysis, Project Engineering and Power Quality.
Requirements
We are looking for you who have:
- an engineering degree at post-secondary level in electrical power, or equivalent competence acquired in another way that we consider equivalent
- experience in electricity networks (local or regional networks)
- interest in calculations and analyzes
- good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish and English
It is meritorious if you have experience of
- working with meshed power grids
- development of selective plans
- working with control plants
- working with HVDC
- programming in, for example, Python, VBA, C# or similar
- project management
Further information
We offer
We offer an exciting working day and a good balance in life in an attractive workplace with good opportunities for development. We work in a safe and motivating work environment, with a strong and positive culture of caring for all. To help you thrive, we offer continuous learning opportunities, good working conditions and a wide range of employee benefits.
Read more about our benefits here.
We are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and attractive company and strive to be good role models. Vattenfall Eldistribution values everyone's equal value and 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.
Place of employment
Luleå
If you want to know more about the position, contact recruiting manager Martin Vestling, 070-235 58 19.
For questions about the recruitment process. contact the responsible recruiter: Caroline Grammenos, 072-224 97 01.
Union representatives for this position are Christian Ericsson, Ledarna, Anne-Marie Sjöbohm, Akademikerna, Asim Nokic, Unionen, Ulf Tengman, SEKO. All contact persons can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard 08-739 50 00.
Please send your application no later than April 27, 2025. We do not accept personal letters in the application. You apply quickly and easily by answering selection questions and attaching your CV. We only accept applications via our website. Selection and interviews will take place after the application deadline.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Vattenfall is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, thus many of our services are security classified. If this position is classified, a security clearance will be carried out prior to employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act.