Company Description
Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is Vattenfall's electricity distribution business and one of Sweden's largest electricity distribution companies. We are responsible for critical infrastructure that distributes electricity to more than 900,000 businesses and households. As an employee with us, you contribute every day to keeping society functioning and ensuring safe electricity supply for future generations. Together we are building the electricity grid of the future and enabling the transition to a sustainable society. Read more about what it's like to work here
About the Role
Do you want meaningful work where you can make a real difference for both society and the energy transition? With us, you are part of a socially important operation with exciting projects, cutting-edge technology, and colleagues who value each other.
We are now recruiting several experienced Station Technicians who want to help build the maintenance operations of the future!
We are facing one of Vattenfall Eldistribution's largest initiatives ever – a historic consolidation of efforts to build stronger, more resilient, and completely independent capabilities in maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair. At a time when the world is placing ever higher demands on robustness and durability, we are taking decisive steps to ensure an electricity grid that can handle difficult conditions and delivers when it's needed most.
Responsibilities and Tasks
As a Station Technician, you play a central role in ensuring that our electrical power facilities from 0.4 to 400 kV are safe, accessible, and prepared for future energy needs. In this role, you will have varied and practical fieldwork, combining advanced technical problem-solving with careful digital documentation. Together with colleagues in operations, maintenance, and projects, you contribute to an electricity grid with high operational reliability and quality, where your technical expertise makes a real difference in everyday life, both for our facilities and society.
Your main responsibilities include:
Perform service, operations, maintenance, construction, and troubleshooting in substations and electrical power facilities
Conduct rounds, inspections, and checks according to established maintenance programs and report deviations
Work according to ESA, EBR, and applicable safety procedures, and participate in risk assessments and work planning
Perform maintenance, repairs, and connections on switchgear equipment, such as transformers, circuit breakers, disconnectors, tap changers, battery systems, as well as thermography work and grounding tests, etc.
Minor modifications and repairs may be included in the role
Document completed work and manage work orders in our digital systems
Contribute to developing working methods and procedures for increased safety and quality
The role places great emphasis on safety, quality, progress, and commitment. Safety is the guiding star in everything we do – in a high-risk environment, we take care of each other and create security together.
Work is carried out on behalf of the maintenance manager. Travel within the area and on-call duty may be part of the assignment.
Requirements
We are looking for someone with good technical understanding, strong safety awareness, and interest in working with complex electrical power facilities. You are organized, thorough, and take responsibility for both quality and safety in your work.
We would like you to have:
Upper secondary education in electrical engineering/electrical work or equivalent vocational training
Experience as a station technician, electrical power technician, distribution electrician, industrial electrician, or similar
Fluent Swedish, spoken and written
Driver's license category B
It is a merit if you have good ability to read drawings, electrical schematics, and technical documentation, as well as a basic understanding of control, protection, and monitoring systems.
Additional Information
We offer an exciting work environment and good work-life balance at an attractive workplace with excellent opportunities for development. We work in a safe and motivating work environment with a strong and positive culture characterized by care for everyone. To ensure you thrive, we offer continuous learning opportunities, good working conditions, and a wide range of employee benefits - Read more about our benefits here.
Work Location
Motala, Kimstad, Lindköping, or Sköldinge and surrounding areas. Home-based station may become relevant.
Contact Persons
For more information about the position, contact recruiting manager Dennis Krantz, [email protected]. For questions about the recruitment process, contact recruiter Amanda Pehrson, [email protected]
Trade union representatives for this position are Christian Ericsson, Ledarna, Anne-Marie Sjöbohm, Akademikerna, Jan-Olof Eriksson, Unionen, Ulf Tengman, SEKO. All contact persons can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard 08-739 50 00.
Welcome to submit your application by August 9, 2026! We do not accept cover letters in applications. You apply quickly and easily by answering selection questions and attaching your CV. We only accept applications through our website.
We use continuous selection. During the vacation period, it may take a little longer before you receive feedback on your application or answers to your questions – we appreciate your patience.
Working for Vattenfall means working with critical infrastructure. Therefore, many of our positions are security classified and you may be subject to war placement. If this position is security classified, a security clearance will be conducted before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act. Any war placement will take place with support in the employment contract and the law on total defense duty.
At Vattenfall, we value being active, positive, open, and safety-conscious. We seek employees who share our vision and can help strengthen our corporate culture. We are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and attractive company and strive to be role models in terms of diversity. Vattenfall actively works to ensure that all employees have equal opportunities and rights regardless of age, ethnic or cultural background, gender identity, religion/faith, sexual orientation, or functional variation. Read more about how we work with diversity and inclusion here.Company Description
Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is Vattenfall's electricity distribution business and one of Sweden's largest electricity distribution companies. We are responsible for critical infrastructure that distributes electricity to more than 900,000 businesses and households. As an employee with us, you contribute every day to keeping society functioning and ensuring safe electricity supply for future generations. Together we are building the electricity grid of the future and enabling the transition to a sustainable society. Read more about what it's like to work here
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