Experienced river maintenance worker and project manager for a strengthened effort for the Mølleåen in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality

Do you want to lead the work to give the Mølleåen a boost? Do you have experience with lake and river restoration, and would you like to drive a project with many partners from idea to concrete actions? Then you now have the opportunity to become our new colleague in Team Nature in the Department of Nature and Environment.

The position has been created as a direct consequence of the fact that the parties in the City Council have reached an agreement on the budget for 2027 in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality and have allocated extra funds to strengthen the efforts to improve water quality in the Mølleåen. The funds will both strengthen work on wastewater planning, discharge permits and the effort to improve the river’s condition overall.

You will be the one who drives the final part: identifying the measures that can improve the Mølleåen and the associated lakes. At the same time, we are hiring a colleague in another department to strengthen the work on wastewater planning and discharge permits. In practice, we have a close collaboration.

The Mølleåen and the lakes along the river are among the most valuable nature we have in the municipality – and a water system used by many, from rowers and recreational fishers to pedestrians and cyclists. The river runs through several municipalities, and improvements therefore require close collaboration with the other Mølleå municipalities, the state and the many stakeholders and users of the river and lakes.

About the job

Your primary task will be to drive the work of identifying, prioritizing and maturing measures that can improve the condition of the Mølleåen and the associated lakes upstream (Lyngby Lake, Bagsværd Lake, Furesø). You will receive a clear mandate and political focus behind the task – and the responsibility to translate it into concrete results.

The tasks will mainly be

• Drive the project for a strengthened effort for the Mølleåen from discovery and project description to concrete actions, including timeline, finances, progress and anchoring
• Compile and assess existing knowledge about water quality, ecological condition and sources of load and indicate the need for new knowledge
• Identify and assess possible interventions in the river and lakes, e.g. river and lake restoration, improvement of the physical conditions and reduction of nutrient loading
• Participate in establishing and facilitating cooperation with the other Mølleå municipalities, the state, utility companies, landowners, associations and users of the river and lakes
• Prepare decision bases, agenda items and notices for the political level
• Contribute to the municipality’s other river restoration tasks together with the rest of the team, especially the municipality’s other river professional and colleagues in the operations department and across the administration
• Give and receive sparring on measures with colleagues, especially the river colleague and the colleagues who work with wastewater planning and discharge permits.

The tasks will be carried out both independently and in close collaboration with your nearest river colleague as well as other colleagues across the nature and wastewater area – in your own department and in the rest of the Center for City and Nature.

About you

You have solid experience with lake and river work and restoration and know what it takes to move a project from analysis to action in a field with many actors. You are good at creating momentum and getting others on board, and you thrive in a politically governed organization.

We are looking for a colleague who can check many of the following boxes

• Have a relevant academic education such as a biology or similar
• Have substantial experience with lake and river restoration projects
• Have strong experience with project or program leadership, preferably in projects with many parties
• Have pronounced organizational understanding and can navigate both within your own organization and across authorities and stakeholders
• Have execution power and can translate plans into concrete actions and results
• Work independently and take responsibility for your own task solving
• Have a pronounced sense of collaboration and place high value on sparring and knowledge sharing
• Understand municipal political decision-making processes and can write to a political level
• Have knowledge of the Administration Act and the relevant field legislation in the area
• Write and communicate well in Danish, i.e. short, clear and understandable.

About us

You will become part of the Department of Nature and Environment, where we are 13 employees who handle authority tasks within nature, rivers, soil contamination, companies and livestock farming and also have the responsibility for the municipality’s GIS map. We work in four teams (Nature; Soil; Companies; GIS), of which the position is anchored in Team Nature.

You will work with friendly and skilled colleagues who have solid experience in their areas, and who prioritize a good working environment and community. We therefore meet across both professionally and socially with activities such as elastic exercises, cake, breakfast, Friday bar and a DHL relay for those who can and want to participate.

Leadership style is trust-based with focus on good dialogue and task solving, and we place great emphasis on collaboration and helpfulness in our department and across the municipality while also allowing room for a laugh in everyday life.

We have offices in the beautiful, protected and newly restored town hall in Lyngby. Close to both S-train, light rail and a part of North Zealand’s coziest town centre.

The organization

The department is part of the Center for City and Nature. In the Center for City and Nature we gather the municipality’s physical development and authority tasks – from municipal and local planning to building case processing, traffic and mobility, parking and light rail. The center also handles tasks within nature, environment and biodiversity as well as climate and supply, including heat, water and waste planning, climate adaptation and coastal protection. In the center we are about 110 employees distributed across five departments.

Salary and employment

Salary and terms of employment are in accordance with the applicable collective agreement. The working hours are 37 hours per week with flexitime.

Working language in both written and spoken form is Danish.

The application deadline is 8 November 2026. You will be contacted on 12 November if we would like to see you for an interview. We will hold 1st interview on 16 November 2026 and possibly 2nd interview on 20 November 2026. Expected start is January 2027 or as soon as possible.

We see diversity as a resource and therefore encourage all qualified regardless of age, gender, religion, disability or ethnic background to apply for the position.

Want to know more

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact the Department Head of Nature and Environment, Jonas Gade Mejer tel. 21 27 25 38 or [email protected].

You can apply for the position on our website www.ltk.dk under https://www.ltk.dk/job-i-kommunen