Station Technician, North West Götaland—Vattenfall Eldistribution

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Company Description Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is Vattenfall's electricity distribution business and one of Sweden's largest electricity grid companies. We are responsible for essential infrastructure that distributes electricity to more than 900,000 businesses and households. As an employee with us, you contribute every day to making society function and to ensuring a secure power 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 Would you like a meaningful job where you can make a real difference for both society and the energy transition? With us, you're part of a mission-critical operation with exciting projects, cutting-edge technology, and colleagues who value one another. We are now seeking several experienced Station Technicians who want to help build the maintenance operations of the future! Vattenfall Eldistribution is undertaking one of its largest initiatives ever—a historic consolidation to build stronger, more resilient, and completely independent capacity for maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair. At a time when the world is placing ever-higher demands on robustness and resilience, we are taking decisive steps to secure an electricity grid that can handle difficult conditions and deliver when it matters most. Responsibilities and Tasks As a Station Technician, you play a central role in ensuring that our electrical installations—from 0.4 up to 400 kV—are safe, available, and equipped for the energy needs of the future. In this role, you get varied, practical fieldwork where you combine advanced technical problem-solving with careful digital documentation. Working 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 daily operations, for both our installations and society. Your main responsibilities include: Perform service, operations, maintenance, construction, and troubleshooting in substations and electrical installations 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 switching on switchgear equipment such as transformers, circuit breakers, disconnectors, load tap changers, battery systems, as well as thermography and earthing tests, etc. Smaller modifications and fault corrections may be part of the role Document completed work and manage work orders in our digital systems Contribute to developing work methods and procedures for improved safety and quality The role emphasizes 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. The work is carried out on assignment from the maintenance manager. Travel within the area and on-call service may be a natural part of the assignment. Requirements We are looking for someone with good technical understanding, strong safety awareness, and an interest in working with complex electrical installations. You are organized, thorough, and take responsibility for both quality and safety in your work. We would like to see that you have: Secondary education in electrical power/electrical engineering 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 an advantage if you have a 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 day 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 help 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 Trollhättan or Åmål and surrounding area. Home-based deployment may become relevant. Contact Persons For more information about the position, contact recruiting manager Ulf Nilsson, [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 personal letters with your application. You apply quickly and easily by answering screening questions and attaching your CV. We only accept applications via our website. We work with continuous selection. However, during the holiday period, it may take a little longer before you receive feedback on your application or answers to your questions—thank you for your patience. Working at Vattenfall means working with mission-critical infrastructure. Therefore, many of our positions are security-classified, and you may be subject to civil defense placement. If this position is security-classified, a security vetting will be conducted before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act. Any civil defense placement will be made under the employment agreement and the Total Defense Act. 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/belief, sexual orientation, or functional variation. Read more about how we work with diversity and inclusion here.

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Åmål

GPS

59.06008149561, 12.680469295507copyopen in

Email

[email protected]

Phone

08-739 50 00

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6

Published

10. 6. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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