He left in 1929, was a deputy judge in Sunnfjord for a short time before working for the counties of Møre og Romsdal from 1929 to 1931 and Oslo-Akershus from 1931 to 1934.
[4] In 1945, at the end of the war in Norway, Schei became acting Minister of Provisioning and Reconstruction (so-called "chief officer" of the Ministry), waiting for the exile Nygaardsvold government to return.
[5] As the normal state of affairs in Norway resumed, Schei was appointed County Governor of Sogn og Fjordane.
The findings of the committee were highly influential; spurring a series of mergers and thus greatly reducing the number of municipalities in Norway.
He was also a board member of the Directorate for Enemy Property, the industrial company Årdal Verk and the Nansen Academy, among others.