Section Manager in Road Transport Regulations, Borlänge

Transportstyrelsen · Full-time

Transportstyrelsen, Borlänge, Sweden

We make society work for people on roads, on rail, in the air and at sea. That's why we need the best expertise. Our mission is important and meaningful in everyday life – both for individuals and businesses. With us, we take responsibility, treat everyone well and respect differences. As an employee, you contribute to a sustainable future. About the job Do you want to help create the transport system of the future? As a section manager, you will lead the work of shaping the regulations that govern tomorrow's road transport, both nationally and internationally. You have direct personnel, operational and budget responsibility for a section with 13 dedicated employees, mainly located in Borlänge. The section works broadly with highly current and strategic issues within the road transport field. This includes, among other things, electrification, automated vehicles, connected and intelligent transport systems, vehicle emissions, fuels and land-based transport infrastructure. The section's work has significant societal impact, which requires you to be able to balance many different perspectives and aspects in regulatory work. As a section manager, you drive early dialogue and invite external stakeholders to create involvement in our strategic assignments. You also ensure that the section functions as expert support to the government, other authorities, organizations and citizens, and that we follow applicable processes for international regulation and reporting. Your leadership As a manager, you are responsible for operations within your section and you actively work with personnel, budget and work environment issues. You lead and create good conditions for employees in their work and represent the employer. As a manager at the Swedish Transport Agency, you actively participate in management team work where you should contribute to developing both your own operations and the Swedish Transport Agency in a positive way within the framework of our mission with citizens and business in focus. You will have personnel, budget and operational responsibility be responsible for the section's competency supply, systematic work environment efforts and other personnel matters plan, monitor and develop the operational assignments and work tasks work to ensure that all employees clearly see their work tasks and how each contributes to the section's results and development represent the operations in various contexts both nationally and internationally be part of the unit's management group and contribute to developing the unit's total operations. You must have academic education or other equivalent extensive experience that we assess as equivalent current experience working in a leadership role as a manager, project manager or similar experience leading development and change initiatives very good ability to communicate in Swedish in both speech and writing good ability to communicate in English in both speech and writing. It is a merit if you also have worked as a manager in public administration experience working in a management group. We want you to be change-oriented and focused on goals and solutions be driven and have a holistic perspective be strategic, structured and analytical in your approach be proactive and enthusiastic have good ability to make decisions be receptive, have good communication skills and dare to engage in discussion for the benefit of operations have an easy time making contacts, creating and maintaining good relationships both within the Swedish Transport Agency and outside the authority have good ability to create engagement among employees have an open mind, curiosity and willingness to develop and evolve with the changes in operations. Great weight is placed on personal suitability. More information The employment is permanent with a management assignment of four years, with placement in Borlänge. Appointment by agreement. The work is mainly performed at the workplace, but remote work can be a complement when deemed appropriate based on operational needs and the nature of work tasks. Employment with us may involve placement in a security classification. A security vetting with background check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) may therefore be conducted. For some of our work tasks in security classification, Swedish citizenship is required. For questions, you are welcome to contact unit manager Lars Walter, 010 – 495 38 75, [email protected]. ST, Tomas Fredlund and Saco-S, Ingela Svensson can be reached via our switchboard at 0771-503 503. We do not want advertisers and staffing companies to contact us. Apply Apply via our website and attach a complete CV and a personal letter marked with reference number TSG 2026-7830. We need your application no later than September 28, 2026. If you have protected personal information, you should submit your application by mail; contact the recruiting manager for information on how to proceed. In your application documents, you need to describe in what way you meet the requested qualifications and merits related to the current recruitment. If you proceed in the employment process, you must always present educational/examination certificates and certificates of service that support the knowledge and experience relevant to the position. Welcome to become our new colleague! About the Swedish Transport Agency The Swedish Transport Agency works to achieve good accessibility, high quality, safe and environmentally adapted transport within rail, aviation, maritime and road. We develop regulations, issue permits and follow up on how they are complied with. With the help of our registers, we work, among other things, with fees, permits and ownership changes. Read more about the Swedish Transport Agency