Do you want to make a difference for the environment in Stockholm by working with contaminated sites? We work to ensure that current and future generations have the opportunity for a good living environment, public health, and welfare. If this sounds interesting to you, as you are early in your career, we have an exciting and meaningful job to offer.
What is included in the role?
We are looking for you who primarily wants to work with inspection, permitting, and processing of government grants and support in accordance with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's quality manual. This work also includes guiding municipal authorities through the grant process. Other tasks that may become relevant include work such as updating information in the EBH system (database for contaminated sites), inventory of contaminated sediments, and providing supervision guidance to the county's municipalities.
You will also have an important role in various development and infrastructure projects as Stockholm County grows, where the group contributes information and expertise on issues relating to contaminated sites.
The work involves close collaboration with other functions within the County Administrative Board, for example, lawyers and planning officers.
Other tasks within the environmental department may also become relevant.
Are you the person we are looking for?
You should have:
- A degree in natural sciences or engineering at university level, or another degree that we assess as relevant,
- Excellent ability to express yourself well in Swedish speech and writing,
- Experience working with contaminated sites at a municipal, county administrative, or consulting level.
We are looking for someone who is unpretentious and has a good ability to be responsible and constructive with others. To succeed in your role, you also need to be organized and used to handling multiple tasks simultaneously.
You are confident in yourself and in your professional role, and are accustomed to and comfortable with working independently. The versatility of the position requires that you have a good ability to create and maintain good relationships with colleagues, citizens, and other societal actors.
As an employee at the County Administrative Board, you need to:
- Have the ability to make decisions from a holistic perspective considering multiple viewpoints,
- Understand that a central role for the County Administrative Board is to balance different interests,
- Have the ability to prioritize and adapt to work with new tasks or in new contexts.
Great weight will be placed on your personal qualities.
It is an asset if you have:
- Experience with supervision according to the Environmental Code chapters 9 and/or 10,
- Experience with project-based economics,
- Experience managing grant-financed investigation or remediation projects,
- Experience reviewing liability investigations for contaminated sites,
- Driver's license, class B.
More about us and the role
The position is located in the environmental department with approximately 130 employees. You will become part of the unit for soil and water protection that works with permitting, supervision, and supervision guidance within water activities, water protection areas, and contaminated sites. The team working with contaminated sites is a work group of ten people with broad expertise.
We have an open work climate where we work both individually and collectively, but always with the opportunity for discussions and check-ins.
Our office is centrally located in Stockholm. Possibility for remote work arrangements exists based on operational needs.
How we recruit
The position is permanent and begins with a six-month probationary period.
As a permanent employee at the County Administrative Board in Stockholm County, you will be registered for civil defense placement based on total defense needs.
When you register your application and attach your CV, written in Swedish, you will be asked to answer a number of selection questions. You do not need to attach a personal letter. Interviews will take place on an ongoing basis.
We welcome calls from you who are interested in the job, but we decline calls from those selling recruitment services or advertisements.
If you have questions
Questions about the role are answered by recruiting manager Svante Ernberg, phone 010-223 13 93, [email protected]
Erik Blomqvist, coordinator, contaminated sites, 010-223 12 54
Trade union contact persons
SACO: Susann Sass-Jonsson, [email protected] or (from August 10: Jennie Barthel Svedén Saco, [email protected]
ST: Ulrika Holmström [email protected] or Maria Sand Vaziri [email protected]
Last application date: 2026-08-16
Diary number: 112-34197-2026
Welcome with your application!
About the County Administrative Board
The County Administrative Board Stockholm is a unifying force for a growing and sustainable capital region. By taking responsibility for the bigger picture, we find ways forward in complex societal issues.
The bigger picture is an important starting point for us when we collaborate with municipalities, authorities, businesses, and other important societal actors. On behalf of the government, we also work to ensure that national goals are implemented in our county. We have experts in many different subject areas and our combined expertise has a remarkable breadth. Here you learn something new every day.
Read more about us at www.lansstyrelsen.se/stockholm/jobba-hos-oss.Do you want to make a difference for the environment in Stockholm by working with contaminated sites? We work to ensure that current and future generations have the opportunity for a good living environment, public health, and welfare. If this sounds interesting to you, as you are early in your career, we have an exciting and meaningful job to offer.
What is included in the role?
We are looking for you who primarily wants to work with inspection, permitting, and processing of government grants and support in accordance with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's quality manual. This…