Are you passionate about groundwater and clean drinking water?

Horsens Municipality is seeking a new colleague for our Groundwater Team. Protection of groundwater and clean drinking water is a high priority in Horsens Municipality

In the team we create the framework for clean drinking water, a safe and stable water supply and to protect the groundwater against pollution threats.

With us you will become part of a strong professional environment, where we focus on both quality and efficiency – and where we help each other, even when it is busy. With us you get the opportunity to make a difference in a daily life characterized by professionally exciting tasks, cross-disciplinary collaboration and a strong political focus.

The town of Horsens and the surrounding towns are rapidly growing with many new residential and commercial areas. We support the development in the local plans, constructions and infrastructure projects that naturally follow.

Your tasks

Your tasks will be a wide range of different water supply-, groundwater- and environmental tasks.

Your primary tasks will be physical supervision of waterworks, supervision of drinking water quality, lighter case handling within groundwater and drinking water, approval of tariff sheets and waterworks regulations, internal coordination of raw material hearings, wildlife regulation, sludge reporting and cadastral cases.

You will have a varied workload, where you both get your own areas of responsibility and tasks that support colleagues' areas. Therefore you will have a large interface to colleagues in the department and the organization in general, where the citizen and the applicant are at the center.

We expect

You are educated as an environmental technologist, agricultural technologist, biologist or similar, and have experience within especially drinking water- and groundwater areas.

You must be willing to engage in dialogue with citizens and businesses, where you focus on opportunities that contribute to finding good and constructive solutions within the framework.

We emphasize that you have

• experience with authorities work within the drinking water/groundwater area, preferably from a municipality.
• familiarity with waterworks, including water treatment and boreholes.
• familiarity with mineral hearings, wildlife regulation, sludge reports and cadastral cases.
• good communication skills - both written and oral in Danish - and a desire to communicate and engage in dialogue with waterworks, citizens and advisors
• enjoy working across disciplines and are able to systematize and prioritize in a busy everyday life
• thrive in a team where cooperation is highly valued
• engage in the tasks and the collegial community
• have a flair for using IT systems. We use, among others, WebGIS, SBSYS, GeoEnviron and BEST VN, JAGG, GeoAtlas live and Scalgo

Driver's license is a requirement.

We offer

• a flexible team-based organization
• opportunity for professional sparring
• a good, busy and informal working climate
• permanent employment and a 37-hour flexible workweek
• employee benefits (fitness room, holiday homes, etc.)
• salaries and employment terms are in accordance with the applicable collective agreement. Salary is negotiated with the union representative.

The Groundwater Team consists of 6 skilled employees, of which 5 mainly work with groundwater and drinking water. We are part of the Nature, Environment and Climate Department, where we are a little over 60 committed employees with diverse competencies within nature, water and environmental field.

The Nature, Environment and Climate Department is characterized by an informal tone and a good social environment. We are organized in professional teams with independent assignment solving. The department is responsible for solving the many municipal regulatory tasks in the nature and environment area, which in addition to groundwater/drinking water also include tasks within soil pollution, wastewater, nature, watercourses, agriculture, outdoor life, pests and climate adaptation.

Further information

If you want to know more about the job, you are welcome to contact the department manager Nick Raaholdt Sørensen at 76297450 or groundwater employee Gitte Bjørnholdt Brok at 7629 2507.

Application deadline is 28 October 2026.

We will hold employment interviews on 9 and 11 November with a view to employment from 1 January 2027.

In Horsens Municipality we view diversity as a strength, and we therefore encourage all qualified to apply regardless of age, gender, religion, ethnic origin and disability.

We set salary and terms of employment according to the applicable collective agreement and relevant pre-agreements on local pay formation within the individual professional area. You can see the pay level, including base salary and pension, in the municipal and regional salary data office here .

The concrete salary depends on the position, as well as your experience and qualifications, and may in addition to base salary consist of relevant negotiated allowances.