City Management Office Seeking Four Security Guards

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Description The City Management Office is responsible for the leadership, governance, and coordination of Gothenburg's operations. This mandate includes the city's work on security and civil preparedness, including the protection of the administration's protected objects and critical societal functions. Given a changed security situation and increased demands for robustness, continuity, and control, we are now implementing a long-term strengthening of our internal capacity in surveillance and protection. As part of this effort, we are seeking four security guards for employment directly with the City Management Office. Duties As a security guard with us, you have an important societal mission with responsibility for surveillance and protection of the City Management Office's protected objects, in accordance with the Protection Act (2010:305) and applicable decisions regarding protected objects. As a security guard, your task is to protect operations against sabotage, espionage, terrorism, and similar threats. At the same time, you serve in reception, which involves responsibility for offering a welcoming manner and high level of service, and being a good ambassador for the City of Gothenburg. The work demands high ability to balance these responsibilities. The assignment includes, among other things: Access control, authorization checks, and reception duties. Security and access control in connection with City Council meetings. Stationary surveillance, patrols, and alarm and incident management within the administration's facilities. Reporting of security-related incidents and management of technical security systems. Actively contributing to the office's overall security, protection, and preparedness work. Duties are scheduled, primarily during daytime hours. Qualifications You should have security guard training that is not older than five years. You should have at least three years of continuous and current experience working as a security guard/at a protected object, or other experience that the employer deems equivalent. You should have approved training for service weapons and the prerequisites to be granted a loan authorization/weapons license through the Police Authority. You have good ability to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish. For this position, you need to have a class B driver's license. Personal Qualities Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. The work demands very high standards of your personal profile and maturity. As a person, you are stable, secure, and possess a high level of security awareness. You have a well-developed social and communicative ability, are service-oriented, and can act professionally and trustworthily when meeting with politicians, officials, and the public. At the same time, you have the ability to make quick, resolute decisions and set clear boundaries when the situation requires it. Terms Employment is conditional on necessary decisions regarding expanded operations. Since the position is security-classified, a security vetting under the Security Protection Act may be conducted, which among other things means you must give consent to a background check conducted by the Security Police before you are offered potential employment. A passed security vetting is then a prerequisite for obtaining the position. The City of Gothenburg applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can find more information about, among other things, salary statistics. Salary, compensation, and benefits - City of Gothenburg During the summer months, feedback and response times may be somewhat longer than usual due to vacations. We appreciate your understanding. Interviews will be held in August. Other Information The City of Gothenburg is one of Sweden's largest employers. Our mission is to create a good everyday life for residents, visitors, and the business community. As an employee in the city, you have a secure employment with many career paths where you have the opportunity for interesting and meaningful tasks. The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to counteract discrimination. At the City Management Office, we want all our employees to be engaged in creating workplaces characterized by respect, equality, participation, work satisfaction, and development. We work in pleasant facilities at Gustaf Adolf Square and offer employee benefits such as flexible working hours, wellness contributions, an employee benefits portal, and bicycle benefits. Since we have already made decisions regarding the recruitment channels we wish to use in this recruitment, we ask not to be contacted with further offers of staffing services, advertising, and recruitment assistance. We look forward to your application! Open to All We focus on your competence, not your other circumstances. We are open to adapting the role or workplace to your needs.Description The City Management Office is responsible for the leadership, governance, and coordination of Gothenburg's operations. This mandate includes the city's work on security and civil preparedness, including the protection of the administration's protected objects and critical societal functions. Given a changed security situation and increased demands for robustness, continuity, and control, we are now implementing a long-term strengthening of our internal capacity in surveillance and protection. As part of this effort, we are seeking four security guards for employment directly with…

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active

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City

Göteborg

Address

Göteborgs Stad

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57.705114058146, 11.968068971252copyopen in

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Published

29. 6. 2026

Edited

3. 8. 2026

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