Stockholm – our capital with millions of dreams, expectations and ambitions. We work for everyone who lives here today and in the future. Now we're looking for you who wants to think big, new and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.
Do you want to be part of our important mission to ensure that everyone in Stockholm lives in a healthy and sound environment? With us, you'll have the opportunity to work in a larger organization with complex and varied cases, while building on your experience in food safety inspection. We work across boundaries – as an entire department – where support, community and great expertise are always close at hand.
We at the Environmental Administration are now seeking motivated food safety inspectors for the food control division - for permanent employment.
Welcome to us
The Environmental Administration oversees Stockholm's internal and external environment and works to ensure that everyone in Stockholm lives in a healthy and sound environment now and in the future. The administration's areas of work are highly varied, ranging from indoor environments and food hygiene to traffic noise, water quality and biodiversity. The food control division is organized in four units and consists of approximately 60 employees working with food and drinking water control within Stockholm city. Here you are offered a workplace with broad expert knowledge, good community and colleagues of varying ages.
The Environmental Administration is centrally located on Kungsholmen in bright and fresh premises, just a few minutes' walk from Central Station.
What we offer
A role where you have great freedom to plan and carry out your tasks yourself
The opportunity to work remotely when work allows, to promote work-life balance. At the same time, we value the community, knowledge sharing and collaboration that is created when we meet at the workplace
Generous flexible hours and the possibility of flexible vacation time. Learn more about the benefits of working within Stockholm City here.
Your role
As a food safety inspector, you have a varied day where you inspect food businesses registered in the municipality, such as food stores, restaurants, school kitchens and food industries. Our mission is to ensure that these businesses comply with food safety regulations and produce safe food. If we find deficiencies, we as an authority require that they be remedied. We also handle incoming complaints concerning food handling, investigate suspected food poisonings and investigate suspected food fraud. The work includes answering questions from the public and providing advice to business operators.
Learn more about the role of food safety inspector from a future colleague
Your competence and experience
As a food safety inspector, we are looking for someone who is organized, communicative and professional. You are driven and have the ability to independently identify what initiatives are required to ensure that tasks and projects are completed correctly and efficiently within the scope of your mission. We value your ability to work systematically, as well as your good judgment, which allows you to make independent and wise decisions. A service-oriented approach is self-evident to you and you have an easy time adapting your communication to the recipient's needs. You have an easy time creating and maintaining professional relationships, are responsive and treat both business operators and colleagues with respect and commitment. We work closely together and see collaboration as an important success factor.
We are looking for someone who has
• relevant university education as a food safety inspector, food agronomist, environmental and health protection inspector or other education that the employer deems equivalent
• current experience in food safety inspection
• very good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.
We will place great emphasis on personal suitability as well as interest and motivation for the position.
Other
We see diversity as enriching and welcome all applicants.
To strengthen focus on the competencies required for this role, you do not need to attach a cover letter. In assessing your application, we will base our evaluation on your CV and a number of selection questions that you will answer when you apply for the position. We ask that you answer the questions concretely and concisely so that it is clear why this position interests you, why you are suitable for the role and what you can contribute.
Work tests may be relevant in the later part of the recruitment process.
Does this sound like something for you? We warmly welcome your application!
Stockholm City works with competency-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competencies and thus preventing discrimination.
Remember never to upload a criminal record extract from the Police (Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) with your application.