HR Generalist - Stockholm

Join Saipem and engineer a sustainable future.

We are a global leader in engineering and construction for the energy and infrastructure sectors, delivering complex onshore and offshore projects worldwide. Driven by technological innovation as “One Company”, our 30,000 people from over 130 nationalities in more than 50 countries work every day to enable the energy transition toward Net Zero. At Saipem, your expertise helps shape the future globally for environmental sustainability.

Purpose of the Position: As an HR Generalist, you will be responsible for supporting local HR operations in Sweden. This includes ensuring the compliant management of payroll, employee lifecycle activities, general services, and industrial relations matters for the project. You will ensure full compliance with Company standards, Client requirements, and applicable local legislation throughout construction and commissioning activities.

You will be part of our BECCS project (full-scale Bio-Energy Carbon Capture and Storage) for Business Line ENCAR.

How can you support us? Here below your responsibilities:

• Act as focal point for payroll processing, coordinating with external payroll providers, internal finance teams, line managers and employees;
• Collect, validate and submit payroll inputs (i.e. new hires, leavers, absences, overtime, allowances, benefits in kind, expenses claims, timesheets);
• Assist in the management of tax registrations, social security obligations and onboarding documentation (both locals and posted workers);
• Support the HR Manager in industrial relations matters, interfacing with trade unions, employers’ associations and external labor consultants;
• Act as a key HR interface for subcontractors on industrial relations and labor compliance topics;
• Support implementation and monitoring of applicable collective agreements;
• Ensure compliance with Swedish labor law (Working Hours Act, holidays, sick leave, termination rules, etc.);
• Coordinate general services for local and posted worker staff (office facilities, access badges, IT equipment, onboarding logistics);
• Support mobilization and demobilization processes for locally hired employees;
• Coordinate with Site Management on administrative and workforce support needs;
• Support accommodation, commuting or welfare-related logistics;
  
  

What are we looking for?

Experience: Five years of HR operations experience in Sweden. Demonstrated expertise in payroll coordination and liaising with external payroll providers in Sweden. Familiarity with industrial relations and collective bargaining environments within Sweden is required. Experience managing posted workers in construction, engineering, or industrial projects in a multinational setting is highly desirable.

Technical skills: Solid knowledge of Swedish labor law and Industrial relations system. Familiarity with trade unions (e.g. IF Metall, Unionen) and employers’ associations

IT Skills: Move comfortably among all other common MS Office applications (including AI apps)

Languages: Swedish and English proficient

What Can We Offer To You

• Contract role full time (until mid 2029)
• Our One Saipem Way soft skills model leverages on skills development, career growth, opportunities to innovate through complex challenges by promoting communication and collaboration to achieve common goals.
• Location: Stockholm
• Start date: June 2026
  
  

Additional Information

We support your development! Do you feel you might not fit this role perfectly? If you think you can contribute to our business development in the future, don’t hesitate to apply anyway through our spontaneous application form!

We embrace diversity! At Saipem, we believe that innovation thrives through diversity. Our culture is built on mutual respect, collaboration, inclusion and the belief that our differences drive our progress.

Safety and Sustainability matter to us! Operating in difficult and at times extreme situations, the focus is always on the health and safety of people and the preservation of the natural ecosystem.

Find out more on our career page here

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