Company description

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 around 20,000 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.

Vattenfall Eldistribution is one of Sweden's largest electricity grid companies and more than half of all electricity produced is distributed via our electricity grid. We have an important responsibility to enable the energy transition and work to ensure a robust electricity network and a secure electricity supply. We operate, maintain, develop and constantly expand the electricity network so that society can function and develop. Our employees are an important part of our socially important mission and all contribute to a sustainable and secure electricity supply for future generations.

Our mission is really important - become part of us!

Read more about us at https://www.vattenfalleldistribution.se/om-oss/

About the role

Do you want a job that is challenging, developing and important? With us, you will have the opportunity to grow professionally and make a real difference, both for society and the energy transition.

The Asset Surveillance department has a national responsibility for Vattenfall Electricity Distribution's detection capability in the security area physical protection, which includes the operation and management of all security technology as well as full operational and staffing responsibility for our monitoring centers.

About the role: Do you want to lead a team that is on the front line of securing our critical infrastructure? We are now looking for a Group Manager responsible for our operational technical resources, who will lead and motivate staff in their daily tasks. As a manager, you will have overall responsibility for leading and coaching the team, supporting incident management and further developing security practices to meet both current and future challenges. You play an important role in ensuring that our critical assets remain protected. The role reports directly to the Executive Director of Asset Surveillance and is part of his/her management team.

Duties:

• Managing and developing the team: Responsible for managing and developing 10-15 technical specialists, maintaining a high level of security with accuracy and efficiency.
• Security Strategy and Incident Management: Develop and implement strategic plans for monitoring, managing serious incidents and supporting the technicians in decision making.
• Collaboration and Reporting: Communicate and interact with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the highest security standards. Report incidents and actions to the management team.
• Training and safety culture: Ensure that the team has the necessary training and knowledge for a safe and secure working environment and is given the right conditions to handle our technical systems.

Requirements

We are looking for someone who is

• Communicative and inspiring: You have the ability to motivate and build strong and safe teams and are clear in your communication.
• Relationship building: You have a natural way of creating a positive and open work climate in a technology and engineering driven environment.
• Driven and result oriented: You have a natural drive and with accuracy you ensure that the team reaches its goals.
• Experienced in security: You have experience in the field of physical security, preferably in a leading position.
• Strategic and analytical: You see the big picture and can quickly make decisions to deal with acute situations while working long-term on development issues.

We attach great importance to your personal qualities. As a person, you are driven, energetic, thorough and unpretentious. Furthermore, you are a confident and stable person who can easily adapt to new conditions. You have a strong ability to lead and motivate a number of technical specialists in their work, with support and coaching, and are clear and straightforward in your communication. In this position, it is also important that you are persistent, structured and safety conscious. Furthermore, you have good communication skills, in Swedish and English, and are easy to make good contacts both internally and externally.

• It is advantageous if you have experience of working in a large group.

We offer

• A responsible role where you lead a team that protects society's critical infrastructure.
• Opportunities for further training and personal development in security and leadership.
• A workplace with a strong security culture and a focus on collaboration and innovation.

Further information

As a manager at Vattenfall Eldistribution, you are motivated by driving transformation by:

• Engaging your employees to participate in development work
• Responsible for raising new business development needs
• Taking a clear sponsorship including responsibility for benefit realization for our business development projects
• Responsible for reception and compliance of new ways of working

Other information In addition to being involved in shaping the smart energy society of the future, we offer a workplace with good opportunities for development. We encourage you to move on and explore new areas within the company. With our career and development model, we want to create clarity in the opportunities you have to develop in the direction you want. It's important to make your whole life work, which is why we are committed to ensuring that our employees enjoy a good work-life balance. We believe that diversity and inclusion lead to innovation, improved business performance and increased engagement and we strive to represent the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we operate. Read more about us at: www.vattenfalleldistribution.se

Location

Luleå

Want to know more?

For more information about the position, please contact the recruiting manager Mathias Hedgren on 070-261 43 09 or mathias.hedgren@vattenfall.com.

For questions about the recruitment process, please contact recruiter Jessica Petersson 0700-398770, jessica.petersson@vattenfall.com

Union representatives for this position are Christian Ericsson, Ledarna, Anne-Marie Sjöbohm, Akademikerna, Asim Nokic, Unionen and Ulf Tengman, SEKO. All contact persons can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard 08-739 50 00.