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 AB is one of Sweden's largest electricity network companies and supplies electricity to 900,000 private and business customers. Read more about us at: www.vattenfalleldistribution.se
About the role
The Metering department has overall responsibility for Eldistribution's electricity meters, focusing on everything from the actual electricity meters in the field, to the collection of measurement values, to dialogue with electricity traders, to communication equipment and call-off of field services, to finally be able to invoice the customer.
The Metering Technology group is responsible for owning and managing metering facilities and being a competence center for metering technology issues. Ensuring that the technical design of metering systems complies with current regulations and guidelines for local and regional networks. The group also works with delivery follow-up for contracts entered into with our hired contractors and supply of the meter stock through strategic purchasing and stocking of metering equipment and metering transformers.
As a Metering Engineer, you will, among other things:
- Review control reports for metering systems cat2-5
- Call for field services to contractors
- Follow up and work with requirements, deliveries and lead times
- Require metering technology solutions for local and regional networks
- Drive improvement work and develop our IT tools through business development, automations, etc.
- Manage metrological issues
- Monitor the world and follow changes in laws and regulations that affect us
- Possibility of deepening in a specific area
Requirements specification
We are looking for you who:
Have post-secondary education, preferably in electrical power or other education/work experience that the employer considers equivalent.
We would like you to have previous experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Measuring transformers
- Reading and understanding or constructing electrical circuit diagrams
- Electric meters, incl. calculation of metering circuits
- Control of metering systems, accreditation
- Knowledge of Swedac's regulations regarding energy metering systems
- Order experience towards contractors and suppliers
- Improvement work and developing scripts and automations
- Have good experience of working in different IT systems and have easy to learn new systems
To thrive in the role of Metering Engineer with us, you are advantageously a structured person who enjoys working with others. You are self-driven on your way to set goals and you have no problem making decisions, as in this role you are expected to make trade-offs between different possible solutions and act on your own judgment. It is also important to be customer and service oriented in this role to be able to understand the customer's needs for different technical solutions. You have good communication skills and feel comfortable speaking and presenting in both internal and external contexts. In addition to this, you are fluent in Swedish in both speech and writing, equivalent knowledge of English is desirable.
Further information
We offer
In addition to being able to help shape 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.
Other information
For more information about the position, please contact the recruiting manager Faraz de Bruin, 076 215 79 00 For more information about the recruitment process itself, please contact recruiter Jessica Petersson 070 398 77 00
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.
Location: Solna, Trollhättan, Gothenburg, Uppsala or Västerås.
Does this feel like a job for you? We look forward to receiving your application by November 27. Selection and interviews will take place after the application deadline, no application documents will be received by e-mail.
Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, thus many of our services are security classified. If the position is classified, a security clearance will be carried out before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act.
Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is one of Sweden's largest electricity grid companies and supplies electricity to 900,000 private and corporate customers. Read more about us at: www.vattenfalleldistribution.se