Company description

Business Unit (BU) Fuel, Engineering & Projects is a business unit of about 350 people within Business Area (BA) Vattenfall Generation that supplies nuclear fuel to Vattenfall's nuclear power plants, develops and implements projects and assignments and provides internal technical specialist services for most of Vattenfall's operations. This includes activities such as project management and project support, analysis management and investigation, product development, nuclear safety and dam safety assignments. The focus of the Fuel, Engineering & Projects business unit is to develop our capabilities in project management and selected key technical disciplines. We work actively with continuous improvement initiatives and development of our models, where our work and expertise create great value for Vattenfall and its initiatives.

About the role

Do you want to work with energy and help create a fossil-free future? Vattenfall is a safe and stable employer that is at the forefront of many exciting areas with the aim of achieving the goal of becoming fossil-free within a generation.

We are looking for several experienced project managers. We are looking for you with a natural drive, who are good at creating high-performance teams and like to work with development and complex challenging projects. We offer you exciting and varied assignments in the energy industry, which means a great variety in the type of assignments and technical areas ranging from electric power projects, instrumentation and control equipment, mechanical and process assignments, new and remodeling of buildings. The size of the assignments varies from smaller assignments with a dozen project members, to large assignments with around fifty project members and several suppliers involved. There are great opportunities to match your skills with the right type of assignment.

As a project manager, you are responsible for leading cross-functional project teams, defining clear requirements, objectives and scope for the team, and working actively to ensure that projects are delivered within the agreed time, cost and quality. We strive to be a learning organization that takes into account experiences in the form of good examples and other lessons learned to constantly improve our business and grow as a project manager.

We know that our employees are the key to our success and therefore want to create the right conditions for you as an employee. We care about your development and will always encourage you to use your skills and provide you with opportunities to grow through new challenges, training and skills transfer. With us, you have great responsibility for your own planning and execution of your tasks, which together with good working conditions and mutual trust provides a high level of flexibility and work-life balance.

You will be part of a team that values openness and cooperation and works for a positive working climate with a good community. You will work with highly competent colleagues both within your own unit and in other disciplines. We work actively with skills exchange and networking.

Requirements

We are looking for you who have an understanding of the project process and have the ability to drive and lead different types of projects. As a person, you are a team player who enables collaboration between different competencies and organizations. You are a good communicator at all levels, both internally and externally. You have an ability to build trust and engage others. You are business-minded, able to see the big picture and have a natural focus on results. You have a structured approach that allows you to manage change, set priorities and adapt to new conditions.

• We are looking for driven project managers with at least five years of experience in project management
• A civil engineer or equivalent academic education in a relevant field is desirable
• You have good experience in managing project budgets and resource planning
• You can work both effectively individually and in teams
• Your role will require good communication with team members, customers and other stakeholders
• We are looking for you with strong leadership skills that can motivate and lead the team towards the project goals
• Your experience in implementing project management tools will be very helpful
• You should have strong analytical skills and be able to develop strategies to manage complex projects
• Experience in nuclear operations is a plus
• Certification according to PMI, IPMA or similar is meritorious
• Good knowledge of Swedish and English, both in speech and writing
• You have a B-driving license

Whether you are suitable for the position or not depends both on your skills / experience but also on your personal qualities. Therefore, do not hesitate to apply even if you do not meet everything listed above, it may be just you we are looking for.

We are convinced that diversity helps to build a more profitable and appealing company and strive to be good role models when it comes to diversity. Vattenfall works actively to ensure that all employees have the same opportunities and rights regardless of age, ethnicity, cultural background, gender, religion/belief, sexual orientation and disability.

Further information

In addition to helping to shape the smart energy society of the future we offer you a developing and varied job with many contact surfaces. For us at Vattenfall, it is important that work and private life have a good balance, which is why we offer flexibility in work and the opportunity to work from home if needed. We also have a lot of other employee benefits such as reduced working hours, favorable occupational pension agreements, parental leave allowance and more. Read more about our benefits here.

Location: Solna, Forsmark, Uppsala or Gävle. Travel is included as a natural part of the service, but we actively work with technical aids to reduce these. However, expect 2-3 days in Forsmark as many of the projects are conducted there. Of course, depending on the project, there is also the possibility of working from home.

For more information about the position, please contact the recruiting manager for Solna/Uppsala: Petronella Schröder tel. 070-3275787 and for Forsmark/Gävle: Erik Westberg tel. 072-2266084. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact recruiter Andreas Nordgren, andreas1.nordgren@vattenfall.com.