Company Description
Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is Vattenfall's electricity grid operations and one of Sweden's largest grid companies. We are responsible for critical infrastructure that distributes electricity to more than 900,000 businesses and households. As an employee with us, you contribute every day to making society function and to a secure electricity supply for future generations. Together we are building the electricity grid of the future and enabling the transition to a sustainable society. Read more about what it's like to work here.
About the Role
Do you want a meaningful job where you can make a real difference for both society and the energy transition? With us, you are part of a socially important operation with exciting projects, cutting-edge technology, and colleagues who value each other.
We are now looking for several experienced Electrical Design Engineers who want to help build the maintenance operations of the future!
We are facing one of Vattenfall Eldistribution's largest initiatives ever – a historic effort to build stronger, more resilient, and completely independent capability within maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair. In a time when the world is placing ever-higher demands on robustness and sustainability, we are taking decisive steps to ensure an electricity grid that can handle difficult conditions and delivers when it matters most.
About the Role
As an Electrical Design Engineer with focus on substations and control equipment, you are a key person in our reinvestment projects within the electricity grid 0.4–400 kV. You drive the design from requirements and technical choices to detailed design, procurement documents, and completed documentation. The work is carried out mainly together with our own maintenance organization, which means you have close dialogue with those who will build, test, and operate the facility. In the role, you also ensure that work environment and safety are considered at all stages from design choices and work preparation to implementation and handover.
Your main tasks and areas of responsibility:
Develop and quality assure design documentation (single-line diagrams, circuit diagrams, connection tables, assembly documentation, and layouts/cabinet layouts)
Prepare technical descriptions and documentation and provide technical support during implementation
Ensure that the design meets requirements, standards, and internal guidelines and contribute to technical choices and solution discussions
Drive documentation all the way to handover, including updates and as-built documentation after construction/commissioning
Coordinate and set requirements for contractors/suppliers in the parts of projects where external resources are used
When needed, work with protective relays/IED and communication in substation environments, for example IEC 61850, as well as support related to substation networks
Requirements Specification
We are looking for someone who is analytical and comfortable working with complex technical issues. You have good collaboration skills, enjoy sharing your expertise, and contribute to the team as a whole. At the same time, you are responsible, drive your tasks to completion, and are comfortable asking for support when needed.
We would like you to have:
Post-secondary education in electrical power/electrical engineering (university/civil engineer degree) or equivalent experience-based competence
Experience in electrical design engineering in a project environment
Experience preparing design documentation: single-line diagrams, circuit diagrams, connection tables, assembly documentation, and layouts/cabinet layouts
Good CAD skills
Structured and quality-conscious, takes responsibility for technical deliverables and enjoys collaboration with multiple stakeholders
Very good Swedish language skills, both spoken and written
Class B driver's license
Meritorious:
Experience in distribution projects/substation and control facilities
Protective relays/IED and IEC 61850 (configuration/testing, e.g., SCD/GOOSE/MMS where relevant)
Experience in testing/commissioning/troubleshooting of control equipment
Experience preparing procurement documentation and providing technical support during procurement
Experience preparing as-built documentation and completing documentation after construction
Additional Information
We offer an exciting working day and a good balance in life at an attractive workplace with good opportunities for development. We work in a safe and motivating work environment with a strong and positive culture characterized by care for everyone. To ensure you thrive, we offer opportunities for continuous learning, good working conditions, and a broad range of employee benefits - Read more about our benefits here.
Work Locations
Trollhättan, Åmål, Borås, Gothenburg, Skövde, Motala, Linköping, Kimstad, Sköldinge, Nyköping, Södertälje, or Sollentuna.
Contact Persons
For more information about the position, contact recruiting manager Anders Palenbring, [email protected]. For questions about the recruitment process, contact recruiter Johanna Sperling, [email protected].
Union representatives for this position are Christian Ericsson, Ledarna, Anne-Marie Sjöbohm, Akademikerna, Jan-Olof Eriksson, Unionen, Ulf Tengman, SEKO. All contact persons can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard 08-739 50 00.
Welcome to submit your application by August 9, 2026! We do not accept personal letters in applications. You apply quickly and easily by answering selection questions and attaching your CV. We only accept applications through our website.
We conduct continuous selection. However, during the vacation period it may take a bit longer before you receive feedback on your application or answers to your questions – we appreciate your patience.
Working at Vattenfall means working with critical infrastructure. Therefore, many of our positions are security-classified and you may be subject to war placement. If this position is security-classified, security clearance will be conducted before employment, in accordance with the security protection act. Any war placement will be carried out with support in the employment agreement and the law on total defense obligation.
At Vattenfall, we value being active, positive, open, and security-conscious.Company Description
Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is Vattenfall's electricity grid operations and one of Sweden's largest grid companies. We are responsible for critical infrastructure that distributes electricity to more than 900,000 businesses and households. As an employee with us, you contribute every day to making society function and to a secure electricity supply for future generations. Together we are building the electricity grid of the future and enabling the transition to a sustainable society. Read more about what it's like to work here.
About the Role
Do you want a meaningful job…