Company description

Vattenfall Vattenkraft is responsible for Vattenfall's 90 hydropower plants and about 300 dams in the Nordic region. We are about 500 employees in Sweden and Finland with headquarters in Luleå. Hydropower's renewable electricity production is a prerequisite for creating a climate-smart and fossil-free society where we play an important role as an enabler for the sustainable energy system of the future.Our production corresponds to about 25% of Sweden's total electricity needs. To deliver high availability in our production, we need to constantly challenge ourselves, develop our working methods and take advantage of digital opportunities.

About the role

Hydro power will be provided with modern environmental conditions - do you want to be part of the journey? According to current legislation, all hydropower plants and regulation dams used to produce hydropower electricity must have modern environmental conditions.

The national plan for reviewing hydropower (NAP) means that hydropower operations in Sweden are provided with modern environmental conditions. This means, among other things, that the permits of the operations must be provided with the conditions necessary for the quality of the waters affected by the operations to meet the requirements of the Environmental Code. The operator must apply for an environmental assessment if the activity lacks modern environmental conditions.

We are now recruiting a project manager who will have a key role in our work to provide Vattenfall Hydropower's power plants and regulation dams with modern environmental conditions. The work is carried out in project form ("NAP project"). The NAP project includes the phases of preparation, collaboration, environmental investigations, feasibility studies, application, court review, implementation and follow-up.

These are examples of responsibilities/tasks:

• Drive Vattenfall's NAP projects and be responsible for project resource planning, project planning, budget and progress.
• Work is conducted together with the company's water rights managers, the Group's legal functions and other internal and external resources.
• Method/process development of internal working methods.
• Continuous dialogue with authorities, property owners and other stakeholders regarding the reviews.
• Orderer of consultant support for investigations and application documents.
• Internal orderer of technical feasibility studies from the company's investigators and execution projects by the project department.
• Rapporteur in the steering group for reviews, participate in various steering groups for feasibility studies, investigations and project implementation
• Contacts with the Hydropower Environmental Fund
• Participate in various industry forums.
• Participate in evaluations and consultation responses as well as advocacy activities regarding the Water Framework Directive.

Travel in the service is occurring, you travel, among other things, to the relevant plants and to participate in various project and collaboration meetings.

You will belong to our environmental department, which is part of the Technology unit, which is responsible for Vattenfall Vattenkraft's technology management, plant management, environment and dam safety.

Requirements

You have a relevant university or college education and experience of working with environmental and permit issues under the Environmental Code. You also have experience of managing projects, hydropower and the Water Framework Directive.

The work involves interaction with many stakeholders. You are confident in your role, clear and good at communicating and collaborating. The work will also require you to be courageous, decisive and able to engage and enthuse in a geographically dispersed organization. You have a very good IT habit, you speak and write Swedish and English and have a B-driving license.

Further information

Location

At one of our offices in Umeå, Sundsvall, Solna or Trollhättan.

Contact persons

For questions about the position, you can contact the recruiting manager Richard Holmgren, 070-5977175, richard.holmgren@vattenfall.com and/or Pia Redin Lindholm (project manager modern environmental conditions) 070-2604673, pia.redinlindholm@vattenfall.com

Trade union representatives are Anneli Jönsson Ledarna, Samuel Jernlif Unionen, Magnus Nilsson Akademikerna and Anders Karlström SEKO. All can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard, 08-739 50 00.

Does this feel like a job for you?

Please send your application via our ad on Vattenfall's career pages no later than January 10, 2025. Interviews will take place after the application deadline. If you have any questions about your application, please contact recruiter Andreas Nordgren, andreas1.nordgren@vattenfall.com

We are convinced that diversity helps 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, ethnic or cultural background, gender identity and gender expression, religion/belief, sexual orientation or disability.

Vattenfall Vattenkraft is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, and many of our services are therefore classified. If the position you are applying for is security classified, in accordance with the Security Protection Act, a security interview and register check will be conducted before employment.