Company description

VB Energikoncernen is an environmentally and work environment certified energy company with headquarters in Ludvika. The business with about 65 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 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 fossil-free living possible within a generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.

About the role

Do you enjoy a leading role and want to contribute to a fossil-free future? Now we at VB Energi are looking for you who want to step into the role of Facility Manager for our facilities in Fagersta and Norberg.

With us, you get the opportunity to work in a broad role close to the business. We work with continuous improvements and you have an important role in driving and implementing both large and small changes. We put great focus on safety in everything we do at our plants and it is our highest priority in our daily work.

Your tasks as Plant Manager

As Plant Manager, you are responsible for the production team in Fagersta/Norberg, which consists of 6 people, where you lead and distribute the work in the group. You work both overall with more strategic issues, but the role also contains a lot of operational elements. Tasks such as production monitoring, risk analysis and environmental issues are included in the service. You will be involved in the work with contacts with authorities, permit applications and environmental reporting. In the event of errors or deviations, you are responsible for analyzing and acting on them. You work to ensure a safe and secure working environment for all employees. In this role, you have a close dialog with our suppliers and customers. As Plant Manager, you are part of VB Energi's management team.

Requirements

To succeed in the role, we see that you have:

Leadership experience
Technical University education or KY education
Knowledge and experience of maintenance issues
It is meritorious if you have experience from the energy industry or the process industry
B-Driving license

As a person, we are looking for you who have a genuine interest in people and a desire to develop others. As a leader, you create trust and commitment. With your leadership, you enable employees and operations to reach their full potential. We are looking for you to be structured and thorough. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability where good leadership skills are prioritized.

We see that you share our principles of being active, positive, open and always putting safety first. Much of the business involves collaboration with others and therefore you should be able to collaborate easily to thrive in the role. As you interact with many different actors in the role, you need to be able to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish.

Further information

We offer

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.

In addition to being involved in shaping the smart energy society of the future, we offer a workplace with good opportunities for development. You will come to a workplace where you have the opportunity to take great responsibility, but also the opportunity to develop and drive the business forward. It is important that the whole life works and therefore we are keen that our employees experience a good balance between work and leisure.

Location

The position is located in Fagersta or Norberg.

Contact

If you want to know more about the position, contact the recruiting manager: Christer Johansson, christer.johansson@vbenergi.se. For more information about the recruitment process itself, contact the recruiter: Kajsa Loman, kajsa.loman@vattenfall.com.

The 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

We look forward to your application no later than December 8. In our recruitment processes, we cooperate with Human Resources Services within Vattenfall. Selection and interviews will take place after the application deadline.

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 Energi 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 Energi is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, thus many of our services are security classified. If this position is security classified, a security clearance will be carried out before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act.

We look forward to your application!

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