Kristinehamn has clean water because of us! We at the water and waste department in Kristinehamn provide water daily to approximately 5,500 households. We are now seeking a skilled plumber who is passionate about clean water just as much as we are! Come and be part of our first-class team! The position is placed in the pipe network section, which together with the water and waste department currently consists of 11 employees and is part of the Technical Administration. The Technical Administration consists of approximately 150 employees and includes the water and waste department, the public environment department, and the service department. We are responsible, among other things, for ensuring that the municipality's traffic environment is safe and accessible, and that our children, youth, and elderly receive nutritious food in the municipality's preschools, schools, and special housing facilities. We also manage the municipality's properties and are responsible for strategic facility planning. We also handle the collection of household waste and operate the municipality's waste facility. 1 position(s). WORK DUTIES As a plumber at Kristinehamn Municipality, you will have interesting and varied work with regular working hours. We work with installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of piping systems for water, sewage, and heating in the municipality's properties and facilities. Your duties include both planned work and urgent tasks, where you contribute to ensuring a safe and functioning technical infrastructure for the municipality's operations and residents. We also carry out renovation projects on our own for our distribution network. You perform troubleshooting, service, and urgent tasks, and assist with new installations and renovations. The work is carried out in close collaboration with colleagues and other professionals, with a focus on quality, safety, and good service. A major advantage of working for the municipality is that you avoid long business trips and working hours are mostly during daytime, although on-call duty may be part of the position. Working hours are mostly during daytime, but on-call duty may be part of the position. QUALIFICATIONS Requirements: • Installation technical education or other education/experience deemed equivalent. • Driver's license category B • Work experience in pipe and installation work Merits: • Road safety • PE pipe welding • marking responsible • Driver's license category C • authorization for wheel loader • leak detection trained • certified plumber. We are looking for you as an engaged and responsible plumber who enjoys working both independently and in a team. You have a positive attitude and contribute to good cooperation with colleagues, customers, and other professionals. You are self-motivated and take personal responsibility for your work tasks, while being flexible and adapting to changed circumstances and work needs. With your service-oriented approach, you build trust with customers and always strive to deliver high-quality solutions. You have a good overview and understand how your work affects the project as a whole, from planning to completion. As a quality-conscious person, you work carefully and systematically, with a focus on safety, sustainability, and long-term solutions. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. Employment type: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start: As soon as possible or by agreement. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, EU, EEA, or Switzerland and are offered employment, you must be able to prove that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. In Kristinehamn Municipality, we work for active leadership and employee engagement. This is created through dialogue and interaction between leaders and employees, which creates good conditions for job satisfaction in the organization. Our work environment is influenced by how we treat each other, and we all have a responsibility to contribute. Together, we work to ensure that the organization achieves its goals and that decisions made are also followed. A curious basic attitude and willingness to cooperate are prerequisites for continuous improvements that lead to the best possible service to the municipality's residents. As an employee with us, you can expect support for new ideas, good development opportunities, and that we provide you with the tools you need to perform your work well. Kristinehamn Municipality sees diversity as a strength and we welcome all applicants. Our competence-based recruitment methodology aims to focus on the individual's competence and thereby also counteract discrimination. Warm welcome with your application! To ensure quality in the recruitment process and maintain good communication with you as a job applicant with us, we ask you to submit your application only via the application link in the ad. Questions regarding the recruitment process are handled by the recruitment unit.
- City
- Kristinehamn
- Address
- Kristinehamn kommun
- GPS
- 59.309949432482, 14.111380308644
- Published
- 11. 8. 2026
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