Unit Manager | Park Maintenance | Mölndal Municipality

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Do you want to be part of developing sustainable and attractive urban environments for the future? We are seeking an engaged and confident unit manager who wants to lead the work with the city's parks, green spaces, and public outdoor environments within the Urban Maintenance Operations area of our City Services Department. Together we create a sustainable city for today's and tomorrow's residents! Read more and apply below. About the role As a unit manager for park maintenance, you have overall responsibility for leading, planning, and developing the operations that manage the city's parks, green spaces, and public outdoor environments. The role involves comprehensive responsibility where you ensure that operations are conducted efficiently, with high quality, and in accordance with applicable laws, guidelines, and agreements. You are responsible for budget, personnel, and work environment, and actively work to optimize resource use to achieve financial goals, high-quality delivery, and engaged employees. In daily work, you lead a team of approximately 25 employees and are responsible for seasonal and summer staff, which requires close, clear, and structured leadership. The unit also consists of 2 coordinators who have a supervisory function and serve as support to the unit manager. You create good conditions for operations and ensure stable and secure management of parks and green areas. The role involves a combination of strategic and operational work. You switch between driving long-term development of the city's park and green structure and ensuring that daily operations function efficiently. You also work closely with internal and external stakeholders, such as other departments, contractors, organizations, and residents. As part of the Urban Maintenance management group, you have an important role in operations development. You contribute to strategic issues, drive improvement work, and participate in urban development processes and development projects. You receive support from coordinators within the operations. In this role, you report to the Urban Maintenance operations manager and are part of the Urban Maintenance management group. You work from our office at Skedebrogatan and on-call duty may occur. Your profile For the role of unit manager for park maintenance, we seek a confident and engaged leader who can combine clear leadership with good understanding of operation and development of outdoor environments. You have relevant higher education or equivalent, as assessed by the employer as equivalent. To succeed in this role, we see that you have documented management experience with responsibility for operations, personnel, and finances. You have experience with operation, maintenance, or development of parks and outdoor environments, and experience leading through others, such as employees or contractors. You have good knowledge of work environment management and experience with contract management and procurement control. You also have good ability to work structurally with budget, follow-up, and resource planning. As a leader, you are clear, communicative, and unpretentious. You create engagement and participation through present leadership and build trusting relationships both internally and externally. You have the ability to set direction, make decisions, and drive development in a structured manner. Since the position involves continuous dialogue with employees, colleagues, and external parties, it is important that you express yourself well in Swedish in both speech and writing. It is meritorious if you have experience from municipal operations or public administration, as well as knowledge of sustainability work, green planning, or urban development. About the workplace At Mölndal Municipality, we are proud of having Sweden's most important jobs where we together create the best possible everyday life for our citizens. With knowledge, courage, and creativity, we develop our operations and contribute to making Mölndal an even better place to live and work. Welcome to make a difference in people's everyday lives every day! The City Services Department has an important and exciting mission to deliver, coordinate, and develop services for residents and departments in Mölndal Municipality. The department has approximately 550 employees and is organized into four operational areas: meals and facility services, water and recycling, urban maintenance, and staff and customer services. Within urban maintenance, approximately 150 employees work with operation, maintenance, and development of the municipality's public environments - from real estate and streets to parks and green spaces. Together we contribute to a clean, safe, and pleasant city for both residents and visitors. Apply for the position today! In this recruitment, Mölndal Municipality collaborates with Jefferson Wells. If you have questions, you are welcome to contact responsible recruitment consultants Maria Svedberg at [email protected] or Anna Edemyr at [email protected]. We conduct ongoing selection, so please submit your application as soon as possible. No interviews will be conducted between weeks 28-32. Before a potential employment, we will verify citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, EU, EES, or Switzerland, you must be able to provide a valid residence/work permit or demonstrate that you are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Background checks may be conducted before employment.Do you want to be part of developing sustainable and attractive urban environments for the future? We are seeking an engaged and confident unit manager who wants to lead the work with the city's parks, green spaces, and public outdoor environments within the Urban Maintenance Operations area of our City Services Department. Together we create a sustainable city for today's and tomorrow's residents! Read more and apply below. About the role As a unit manager for park maintenance, you have overall responsibility for leading, planning, and developing the operations that manage the city's parks,…

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Gothenburg

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Published

30. 6. 2026

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4. 8. 2026

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