Eksjö Energi Seeks New Manager for Technical Services and Maintenance

Eksjö kommun · plný úvazek

Telegatan 8, EKSJÖ, Švédsko

Eksjö Energi AB is a municipally owned limited company wholly owned by Eksjö Municipality. The company operates district heating production and distribution, manages Eksjö Municipality's waste management operations, water and wastewater services, parks, and maintenance of the municipal road network. The company has two subsidiaries, Eksjö Elnät AB and Eksjö Energi ELIT AB. These companies conduct electricity network operations, electricity sales, and data and telecommunications services. Eksjö Energi AB is a socially beneficial company that works for the benefit of our customers and the environment with a long-term investment horizon. Our vision is to guide the business toward long-term sustainable development through expertise, inspired employees, and continuous improvement. The group has 109 employees and a turnover of 397 million SEK for 2025. With us, you get a meaningful management assignment in a stable organization with short decision-making paths and engaged employees. You have great opportunities to make an impact, develop operations, and contribute to safe and well-maintained living environments throughout Eksjö Municipality. The work is varied, operations-focused, and clearly linked to social benefit and sustainable development. Who are you? We are looking for a confident, clear, and present leader with the ability to create engagement, structure, and development. You see the bigger picture, can switch between strategic issues and operational needs, and make well-founded decisions even when circumstances change rapidly. You work based on trust and build good relationships through open dialogue, participation, and feedback. You have an interest in supporting and developing employees who, for various reasons, do not function well in the open labor market. You have a strong focus on safety and work environment, good financial understanding, and a solution-oriented approach. To succeed in the role, you also need to be communicative and enjoy collaborating with many different professional groups and stakeholders. 1 position(s). WORK TASKS As manager of Technical Services and Maintenance, you will combine close leadership with long-term development of the municipality's roads, parks, and green spaces, as well as our operations in ground and infrastructure work. Your assignment As manager, you have overall responsibility for the department's finances, personnel, operations, and work environment. The department includes roads, parks, and ground and infrastructure work. You lead the operations both strategically and operatively and create conditions for employees to succeed in their assignments. The assignment involves ensuring safe, efficient, and quality operations and development of the municipality's roads, highways, footpaths and cycle paths, parks, green spaces, playgrounds, and public environments. You are also responsible for the operations department handling ground and infrastructure work, which carries out management and infrastructure work for other operations within Eksjö Energi. You are part of Eksjö Energi's management group and actively contribute to the group's joint development. The role involves close collaboration with Eksjö Municipality, other operations within the group, contractors, suppliers, and other external stakeholders. Your main areas of responsibility • Lead, allocate, and develop the department's work with clear goals, priorities, and follow-up. • Manage the department's finances, personnel, operations, and delegated work environment tasks. • Have company-wide responsibility for planning, coordinating, and optimizing resource allocation and long-term project planning. • Be responsible for planning and design of development projects within your own operations. • Develop operational plans, budget proposals, and long-term maintenance and investment plans. • Ensure good planning, quality, cost control, and efficient resource utilization in operations, maintenance, and projects. • Manage contacts and coordination with authorities, police, regional government, Eksjö Municipality, the Swedish Transport Administration, and other external stakeholders. • Serve as coordinator, planner, and reporting officer to the urban planning sector regarding road and park operations. • Develop working methods, processes, and collaboration within the department and with other operations. • Manage customer and supplier contacts and participate in procurements and contract follow-up. • Contribute to the company's work on safety, preparedness, sustainability, and digital development. QUALIFICATIONS Relevant university education in areas such as engineering, construction, infrastructure, urban development, or other education or experience deemed equivalent. Several years of experience in leadership with personnel, finance, and work environment responsibility. Experience from operations, maintenance, contracting, or infrastructure work. Good ability to plan, prioritize, and follow up on operations, finances, and projects. Good communication skills in Swedish, both spoken and written. Good digital proficiency. Class B driver's license. Experience in municipal or other politically governed operations. Knowledge of public procurement, contracting law, and contract follow-up. Experience in winter road maintenance, road operations, park management, or ground and infrastructure work. Experience in change management and development of work processes. Knowledge of preparedness and continuity planning in socially critical operations. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: By agreement. If you are the person we are looking for and find this position interesting, we look forward to your application. Please include a personal letter with your application. You apply most easily via the link in the announcement. We conduct continuous selection, which means the position may be filled before the application deadline expires. As part of the recruitment process, we conduct a background check. Since the position may involve work with classified security information, a security clearance may also be relevant. Permanent employment with a six-month trial period applies and a certificate of health from the company physician is required for the position. If you are called for an interview, you must be able to verify your identity in one of the following three ways: - Passport - National ID card showing citizenship - ID card combined with a personal identification document showing citizenship If you are a citizen of a country outside the EU/EEA, you must also present a valid residence permit and/or work permit in Sweden. Eksjö Energi AB has already selected advertising channels prior to posting and therefore declines calls from recruitment firms and advertising sales representatives. Information on how we handle personal data during recruitment can be found on our website www.eksjoenergi.se (About Eksjö Energi, GDPR).