Project Manager - Street and Infrastructure

Vimmerby kommun · plný úvazek

Stångågatan 28, Vimmerby, Švédsko

Vimmerby is a small municipality in Småland that has much to offer; in addition to its rich cultural heritage from Astrid Lindgren, the municipality is also characterized by a diverse business community, strong local engagement, active civic organizations, beautiful nature, and a peaceful environment. Through our core values of Responsibility, Courage, and Imagination, we work to provide the best possible service and care to Vimmerby municipality's approximately 15,800 residents, businesses, and all who visit the municipality. These core values permeate the municipality's approach and work methods and are something everyone carries with them in their daily work. 1 position(s). WORK RESPONSIBILITIES As a project manager, you ensure efficient projects with high quality. You receive overall responsibility for exciting and complex investment projects in infrastructure, streets, roads, and development. Your role is primarily that of a client representative and project manager where you coordinate, lead, and follow up on work between the municipality's operations, external consultants, contractors, and other stakeholders. You are responsible for controlling project progress regarding time, budget, and quality, as well as ensuring that project goals are achieved. Beyond your role as project manager, you will also work with other tasks. For example, you will have strategic responsibility for the municipality's asphalt and street maintenance, as well as follow up on restoration work following excavation in the municipality's streets. This work requires strong communication skills as ongoing contact with external parties is common. Your main responsibilities: • Lead and coordinate projects from pre-study to handover. • Establish and follow up on project budgets, forecasts, and schedules. • Procure and manage consultants and contractors. • Ensure quality, work environment, and regulatory compliance in projects. • Develop decision-making documents and present them in political forums. • Collaborate with developers, authorities, the business community, residents, and municipal operations and companies. • Handle project risks, changes, and follow-up throughout implementation. • Long-term planning of the municipality's asphalt and street maintenance. • Be responsible for the municipality's forest assets. • Handle individual road contributions. As a project manager with us, you become an important part of the municipality administration's infrastructure and community development department, where business development, land and development issues, traffic issues, sustainability matters, and public health issues are managed. Together, we work to create an attractive and sustainable municipality for residents and businesses. In your work, you have support primarily from your nearest colleagues who work as land and development engineers, traffic engineer, infrastructure coordinator, and sustainability strategist. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who have: • University education in civil engineering, building technology, or other university education that the employer deems relevant. • Experience working in the street, road, or construction sector. • Experience in project management within the construction, infrastructure, or engineering sector, or other experience that the employer deems relevant. • Documented experience in driving projects from pre-study through implementation and handover. • Good knowledge of contract law for construction and standard agreements in the construction and engineering sector. • Experience with digital systems and tools and viewing digital development as a natural part of working to achieve goals. • Good skills in Swedish, both spoken and written. • Class B driver's license. Meritorious: • Master's degree in roads and water or civil engineering. • BAS-P/BAS-U. • Experience with development projects. • Experience from municipal operations or other politically governed organization. • Knowledge of AMA Construction, contract law (AB/ABT), and public procurement according to LOU. • Experience working with traffic, urban development, or infrastructure issues. • Documented knowledge of or experience with asphalt surfacing and long-term maintenance planning of roads or road surfaces. Employment type: Permanent position. Duration: Permanent, start date: Immediate upon agreement. Vimmerby municipality uses competence-based recruitment to ensure a fair and inclusive process where each candidate's competence is in focus. We welcome applicants with different backgrounds and experiences and place great emphasis on personal suitability based on the competencies described in the announcement. The position is filled on the condition that no employee with priority rights makes a claim to it. To maintain quality and security in our recruitment process, certain background checks may be conducted before employment. We will inform you of which checks apply to this position in connection with the interview. Before employment, you as a candidate need to be able to show a valid ID document and personal identification certificate. In preparing for the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding advertising channels and marketing. We therefore ask that you refrain from contacting us regarding media/advertising sales, recruitment websites, and similar. We welcome your application!