Area Manager for Planning, Technology and Environment

We are looking for a new colleague to handle the management of the municipal areas.

About the job

As an area administrator, you will have an important role in the work with the municipal areas that are part of lease or tenancy agreements.

You will assume the ownership role in connection with concrete tasks to be carried out on the areas you are responsible for.

The work takes place in collaboration with both our contracting department and colleagues in other departments.

You should

• be responsible for the use of the municipality's land, from small areas in urban areas to large field areas
• handle cadastral cases, lease agreements, tenancy agreements, prescriptive rights disputes, utility line cases, etc.
• collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including lessors, contractors and authorities
• manage the financial management of your own budget for the management of the municipal areas
• join a cross-cutting working group that coordinates tasks with municipally owned areas across the municipality.

About you

You have a relevant background with experience in area management. Perhaps you are an agricultural technologist, forest and landscape engineer, land surveyor or similar - and you have experience with or the desire to work in a municipal administration.

• You thrive with a broad task portfolio with both routine tasks and challenging tasks - and tasks with short deadlines
• You thrive in a job with many diverse tasks and many inquiries
• You are structured, efficient and take responsibility for delivering on time
• You take responsibility and show initiative. This also means that you are good at planning your own time and tasks, and that you naturally coordinate your own tasks with other colleagues' tasks and timelines
• You should feel it natural to ask if there is something you do not know – and to help a colleague who needs your help
• You are good at building relationships, are positive and thrive in a busy and informal work environment.

More concretely, you have the following qualifications

• You have some knowledge of farming and an understanding of handling municipal areas
• You have financial understanding, including budgeting and financial management.
• You are skilled at communicating both verbally and in writing ’with the citizen in focus’, and at forming good relationships
• You are pragmatic, meet people at eye level and are skilled at handling and resolving conflicts, where you can put yourself in their place
• It would be an advantage for you to have knowledge of the municipal sector, municipal planning, legislation, culture and political processes, but this is not a requirement.

You have a driving license (category B), as the position involves travel to external parties.

We offer

• An inspiring and challenging everyday life with experienced and engaged colleagues
• A workplace focused on collaboration and good colleagues
• A very broad network inside and outside the organization
• Flexible working hours and a health scheme.

About us

You will become part of Water and Nature, which is part of Plan, Technical and Environment. We prioritize collaboration, knowledge sharing and well-being – and we have an informal tone and great influence over your own tasks. You will experience a daily life with both professional challenges and room for development – and the opportunity to influence the use of municipal areas in Skanderborg Municipality.

We work in Plan, Technical and Environment based on our shared values

• Professional, efficient and solution-oriented approach
• Holistic
• The We together.

Core task for Plan, Technical and Environment

• We work to ensure the Council's political goals succeed
• We manage and develop Skanderborg Municipality's towns, infrastructure and nature, to create Denmark's most beautiful and greenest municipality
• We carry out efficient, solution-oriented and well-coordinated authority processing so that citizens and businesses can realize their wishes – without harming others
• We are cheerful, skilled and effective staff and leaders, with shared strong values. We value each other and a good and valuable collaboration.

About Skanderborg Municipality

Skanderborg Municipality is an attractive, beautiful and well-located municipality. We experience strong growth and interest in building, living and doing business in the municipality. We therefore expect to reach around 70,000 inhabitants in the coming years, which means an ever-increasing need for planning for housing, institutions and businesses.

The climate agenda is politically high-priority, and it affects all tasks both directly and indirectly. It can be in the form of large solar parks to plan for, requirements for organic and pesticide-free operation of the municipality's areas and much more.

Under the motto “People meet people in Denmark's most beautiful municipality” we meet each other eye to eye, with the aim of creating beautiful and well-functioning frameworks for good living and balanced growth in the municipality's towns and villages.

Further information about the position

If you have questions about the position, you are very welcome to contact department head for Water and Nature Bent Hodde Mortensen at mobile 30 84 34 81 / email [email protected] or forester Søren Peder Kirstein Knudsen at phone 87 94 77 12 / email [email protected] .

Workplace

Plan, Technical and Environment, Skanderborg Fælled 1, 8660 Skanderborg.

Salary and employment terms

Salary and employment terms are according to the applicable collective agreement.

The position is full-time. There is no part-time option for this position.

Application deadline

We must have your application and relevant attachments – including CV, certificates and any recommendations – no later than Wednesday, 11 November 2026.

We expect to conduct interviews in week 47.

We would like you to start as soon as possible and no later than 1 January 2027.

Salary and employment terms

Salary and employment terms are determined according to the applicable collective agreement, including the provisions regarding local pay formation. You can find information about the salary level in Skanderborg Municipality via this link: KRL . Here you will also find information about base pay and pension. In addition to base pay, the salary may include negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

In Skanderborg Municipality you see more strollers, trees and lakes than elsewhere in the country. Here there is a view. Not only to Denmark's most beautiful nature, but also to active local communities, growing companies and a club life of exceptional quality. As a workplace, Skanderborg Municipality is known for a flat structure and a high ceiling on the ceiling of possibilities. Welcome to natural surplus.