R&D Section Manager Energy Transfer & Environment

Om tjänsten

We are looking for an R&D Section Manager Energy Transfer & Environment!

The R&D Section Manager Energy Transfer & Environment leads a group of about 20 highly skilled engineers and biologists working widely for the different business areas of Vattenfall in an exciting time for the energy sector. Emerging technologies, climate change and biodiversity paired with focus on safe, effective and flexible electricity generation dominates the work of the section. The section is run as a cost centre and you will report to the Director of R&D Laboratories.

The majority of the direct reports are based in Älvkarleby. Complementary competences are associated to the group through selected consultants. We have extensive cooperation outside Vattenfall, mainly with related institutes and universities in Sweden and abroad. The section leads laboratory development in several areas, runs the computer cluster of Vattenfall and contributes to coordinate health and safety work for the site Älvkarleby with its laboratories. An important task for you as a manager is to facilitate the work of your staff and their contacts and relations to other units of R&D, Vattenfall and relevant external competence hubs.

Main tasks and responsibilities

The R&D Section Manager Energy Transfer & Environment leads and develops the section, ensures alignment with business goals, fosters innovation and delivers high-quality outcomes. The role involves managing resources, driving competence development, ensuring compliance with health, safety, security, environmental and quality (HSSEQ) standards, and fostering strong internal and external collaborations to support the success of the section. Responsibilities include:

• Develop and implement R&D strategies and objectives that align with the goals and business needs of Vattenfall as an international utility.
• Fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Developing and coaching direct reports individually as well as a team.
• Allocation of resources, ensuring that projects are adequately staffed and funded.
• Monitoring the performance of the teams and taking corrective measures if needed.
• Systematically improving the working environment within the section while complying with HSSEQ requirements.
• Budget management of the section according business plan.

The position involves regular social interaction, such as frequent team building activities, client meetings and R&D-internal presentations. In terms of collaboration and communication, the R&D Section Manager Energy Transfer & Environment:

• Engages with external partners, suppliers and research institutions to foster collaboration and drive innovation.
• Maintains contacts at various levels inside and outside the organisation including co-determination and labour representatives to gather information relevant for the section, to inform and give advice to the various groups on a range of operating issues.

For knowledge management, the R&D Section Manager Energy Transfer & Environment stays updated on industry developments and regulatory requirements (for example HSSEQ) as well as identifies and integrates new technologies and methodologies as appropriate.

Din bakgrund

We think you are an experienced engineer or biologist with at least an MSc degree. In your field of expertise, you demonstrate confidence. A background in supporting business with processes, methods or tools is requested. You are interested in development and embrace challenging R&D demands and innovative opportunities. Former experience in personal management, leadership as well as managing change is a merit. We appreciate if you are well-established and appreciated in the business of electricity generation, especially wind, hydro or nuclear power.

Furthermore, you recognize yourself in the following:

• You engage in interdisciplinarity for the development of holistic solutions.
• You are strong in building teams inspired to collaborate on shared tasks.
• You adopt different leadership styles to best address the demands of a particular situation.
• You systematically improve HSSEQ topics for a laboratory environment.
• You contribute to the development of corporate governance.
• You enjoy working in an international organisation with a multitude of subsidiaries which requires to handle different social and business cultures.

To advance innovation in our co-creative environment, we believe that you act with integrity as well as empathy and fully align with the Vattenfall core values – Active, Positive, Open and Safe.

The position necessitates linguistic proficiency in English. Additional language skills are valuable, particularly Swedish, German, Dutch or Danish.

Mer information

We offer flexible working hours, and we are open to discussing individual solutions to ensure a supportive work environment. Office space with single rooms is available. Most of the rooms face toward the picturesque Dalälven, one of the major rivers in Sweden. Office space and laboratory space are highly integrated.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company, and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. We believe that innovation needs diverse types of profiles to filter and process information in various ways.

Location: Älvkarleby, Sweden.

For more information about the position, you are welcome to contact the hiring manager Holger Ecke, holger.ecke@vattenfall.com. For more information about the recruitment process, please contact the recruiter Peter Blixter,+46 722 37 32 02 .

We welcome your application in English, no later than March 16, 2025. We will not be able to handle applications sent in with other means than via our website.

Trade Union representatives are Akademikerna – Shahriar Badiei, Ledarna – Christer Gustafsson, SEKO – Juha Siipilehto, Unionen – Anders Bohlin. You can reach them via 08-739 50 00.

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed, the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Om oss

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to enable the fossil freedom that drives society forward. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. 

The Staff Function Research & Development (R&D) counts a team of about 150 employees working to accelerate the pursuit of fossil freedom through the development of competitive solutions. From its central position at group level, R&D supports different business units in Vattenfall with deployment of new solutions in the field, while leveraging the synergies across the various businesses. Vattenfall R&D is based at two locations in Sweden, namely the Vattenfall headquarters in Stockholm and the R&D Laboratories in Älvkarleby.

The Vattenfall R&D Laboratories is a department of about 75 employees in five R&D Sections. By means of predominantly hands-on experimental work, the R&D Sections deliver added value through innovation to the business units/areas of Vattenfall such as Hydro, Wind, Nuclear, SKB, Distribution, Markets and Customers & Solutions. In this context, the section Energy Transfer & Environment has teams of key competences in strategic development areas of Vattenfall which are close to seamlessly integrated in its associated business areas/units. Biodiversity, green energy business models, optimizing, trouble shooting and validation of new solutions are important contributions of the section.