Service Leader

Do you want to shape the future?
Join our journey towards Fossil Free Living within one generation.

Vattenfall is one of Europe´s largest electricity generators and producer of heat, with operations in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and UK. Our strategy is to reduce emissions from power generation with an ambition to become fossil free within one generation.

Energy is our contribution to quality of life – day after day. With around 20,000 colleagues Vattenfall provides comprehensive electricity and heating offerings to several million customers in northern Europe. For the work ahead we need people who are fully dedicated to our customers and to a sustainable society – people like you!


Our offer
We are now looking for a Service Leader in Onshore Wind O&M Delivery Sweden for our Southern cluster. The position is an full-time position located in Southern Sweden.


The Service Leader will report to the Country Manager of Onshore O&M Delivery Sweden, with continuous cooperation with the O&M Managers assigned to the Southern Cluster, Asset Manager Onshore Sweden, inhouse service technicians, inhouse support functions, and external service providers. Currently, the Southern cluster fleet consists of two different turbine platforms located in Halland and Skåne counties, with the ambition to find synergies between the sites using a flexible and skilled workforce, able to operate at all sites.


You will work in an open, agile and modern environment and collaborating with great colleagues who support each other. We are offering you a work environment with diverse, international and inspiring colleagues where we focus on resilience, knowing that this is a key element for your wellbeing. We support the reconciliation between work and private life with flexible working conditions supported by a smart travel policy.


Your responsibilities as Service Leader in Onshore Wind O&M Delivery Sweden
• Continuous cooperate with the above-mentioned parties to obtain a safe working environment and a high operational efficiency
• Planning and execution of scheduled maintenance, repairs and inspections
• Coordinating unscheduled maintenance and repairs, issuing work orders and work notifications
• Coordinate and quality check work done by service providers
• Perform back-office administration, such as handling finished or outstanding work orders, together with service teams
• On a regular basis report on daily issues and site performance to O&M Managers and other team members mentioned above
• Continuously make quality assurance controls of works together with service team
• Together with the O&M Managers report planned outages in internal outage reporting tool
• Coordinate other daily on-site activities such as larger maintenance and repair work, internal and external inspections and/or audit parties etc.
• Take the role as a service technician and perform unscheduled maintenance and troubleshooting, when needed
• Participate in relevant supplier meetings
• On a regular basis take responsibility for daily readiness telephone and e-mail
• Performing work for other Swedish sites than Southern Cluster if needed


Your profile as Service Leader in Onshore Wind O&M Delivery Sweden
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience as a wind turbine service technician and/or service leader (or a similar role) in wind power
• Strong experience maintaining Siemens direct-driven turbines is required. Knowledge of Vestas V90 and/or Gamesa G97 turbines is preferable but not required
• Relevant wind power technician training and medical clearances, according to Swedish standards, such as GWO, ESA and Mast- och stolpintyg, is preferable but not required. All relevant but missing training will be provided by Vattenfall
• High voltage switching experience is preferable but not required
• SAP PM and SAP MM experience is preferable but not required
• Team player with strong problem solving, planning and structural skills
• Excellent communication skills verbally and in writing, fluent in Swedish with good English skills
• Flexible and open to travel for some periods at a time
• Be result oriented and have a positive and operational mindset



Location: Vattenfall prefers the Service Leader to be located at the Falkenberg site office. The current locations of the sites are outside Falkenberg in Halland County, and outside Kristianstad in Skåne County.



We welcome your application, including CV and cover through the portal, last day to apply 3rd January 2020. Selection and interviews are held after last application date. We do not accept applications through email.



For more information about the position you are welcome to contact Hiring manager Maria Hassel +46725089557. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact recruiter Shala Jamshid, Shala.Jamshid@vattenfall.com.


Trade Union representatives in Sweden via Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00, Anders Johansson - Akademikernas, Christer Gustavsson - Ledarna Rebecka Hedsell - SEKO, and Anders Bohlin



At Vattenfall, we believe, that the only way to make fossil free living within a generation possible is to power and help manage all energy-aspects of our customers’ lives to create climate smarter living building by building, district by district, city by city.


Diversity and inclusion – in everything we do
Read more on how we work with diversity and inclusion here:
https://corporate.vattenfall.com/careers/working-at-vattenfall/diversity/




Our Organization
Business Area Wind is responsible for Vattenfall’s Onshore and Offshore Wind as well as other non-hydro Renewable activities like Solar and Batteries. Today we develop, construct and operate wind generation and solar and batteries installations in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
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