Program engineer - Vattenfall Eldistribution AB
Luleå, Sverige
Type of Employment Full-time
Job position Program host
Work model On location
Application due date 6 November 2024
Are you the one?

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 fossil-free living possible within a generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.

Vattenfall Eldistribution AB distributes electricity to households, businesses and society - around the clock, all year round. Our electricity network is over 12,000 miles long and we distribute electricity to almost 900,000 customers. We build, operate, maintain and invest in our electricity network to ensure that you as a customer receive a reliable supply.

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



About the role


Sweden has embarked on a historic transition and is facing an extensive electrification of society. To show 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 electricity network by 2030 and to transmit electricity with 99.99% delivery reliability.

Do you want to have an exciting everyday life and work for a fossil-free future and make a real difference for Sweden to succeed in the energy transition? With us, you can help influence tomorrow's climate-smart society and create the electricity grid of the future.

We are now looking for driven individuals who want to be part of our journey towards a fossil-free life. Individuals who can challenge all the ways we think. This will lead us down new paths and help us solve the biggest challenge of our time - climate change. Are you the person we are looking for?

Your areas of work as a Software Engineer

A Programme Engineer's scope of work can be described as supporting the Programme Manager in running the Programme administratively in order to manage the Programme as intended. The tasks will include, among others, the following areas where the program engineer manages the day-to-day work, but is also involved in planning and developing the procedures for:

  • overall monitoring of the program
  • time and resource planning and monitoring
  • risk management
  • financial monitoring and invoice management
  • business management and internal communication
  • system accesses and authorizations
  • feedback of experience
  • orders and authorizations
  • documentation management


The content of the work may vary according to the needs of each program and the interests and strengths of the employee.



Requirements specification


We are looking for you who are at the start of your career and who want to deepen and broaden your skills as a program engineer. We see that in this role you have great opportunities to develop into a role as a project manager here with us.

To succeed in the role, you need to:

  • have a university or college education of at least 180hp (120p) with a specialization in engineering, economics, urban planning or social planning
  • have a good knowledge of Swedish and English in speech and writing
  • have a driving license for a passenger car


It is an advantage if you have

  • experience in business areas related to the energy or utilities industry, preferably from both the client and supplier side
  • competence in the Microsoft package, SAP and some time management tools


Your personal qualities:

To fit the role, we believe that you are a social person with good interpersonal skills who plans and structures your work well. Furthermore, you can adapt your approach and behavior to match changing needs in different situations.



Further information


What we offer

In addition to helping shape the smart energy society of the future, as a program manager you will play a central role in our vision to enable climate-smart living within a generation. With us, you will have the opportunity to work in a corporate culture where we strive to be open, active and positive with tasks that develop and challenge you. The health and well-being of our employees and partners is important to us. A good working environment is fundamental to everything we do and safety is always at the center. It is important to us that your personal values are in line with our culture of making each other better, staying ahead of the game and delivering on our promises.

We also offer a wide range of other staff benefits, such as reduced working hours, favorable occupational pension agreements, parental leave allowance and more. Read more about our benefits here.

Location Solna, Trollhättan and Luleå. Travel within Sweden is included as a natural part of the service.

For further informationabout the position, please contact the recruiting manager: Olle Thorsander tel- 0702875795. For more information about the recruitment process, please contact the recruiter: Johanna Kollander, tel: 0702209288.

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.

Welcome with your application containing your CV and personal letter no later than October 27, 2024.

Vattenfall is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure and our operations are subject to rules on security protection, nuclear non-proliferation and export control. Due to these rules, many of the positions in our operations are subject to pre-employment screening. For those positions that lead to participation in security-sensitive activities or placement in a security class, this screening involves security clearance in accordance with the Security Protection Act. In addition to security screening, drug tests are also carried out.