Health and Safety Engineer with focus on Chemicals

Do you want to be part of our journey to a world class safety culture? Come and join us at Northvolt. We are now looking for a Health and Safety Engineer, with a focus on chemicals to join our HSE-team in the manufacturing organization at Northvolt Labs, Västerås.

Northvolt is a group of highly motivated individuals from diverse backgrounds, who share a common passion for enabling the future of energy. We strive to create a high-performance company that is purpose-driven, meritocratic and ethical. Our values are bold, passionate and excellent.

The HSE is an organization with focus on expert support in the field of work environment, environment and security.

You will support the organization with your expertise in matters regarding health and safety and work for continuous improvements. The work tasks include constitute support regarding risk assessments, chemical exposure, investigations and legal requirements. Another important part of your work will be to support the organization in integrating health and safety as part of the general culture in the workplace.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

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Work in close collaboration with managers and other parts of the organization to coordinate and drive the work with health and safety as well as safety culture

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Support the organization with expertise on chemical related health and safety in for example instructions, SEVESO and emergency preparedness

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Develop and improve chemical compliance related processes, instructions, audits etc.

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Approval of new chemical products and actively work on substitution of chemicals

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Perform exposure measurement

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Contacts with authorities and yearly reporting to KemI etc. on chemical import and manufacture in Västerås

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Monitor and interpret changes in regulations

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Contribute to, drive, develop and follow-up on the work done regarding systematic work environment

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Inform, train and coach leaders and employees in health and safety

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Manage and be superuser for existing systems regarding occupational health and safety (for example IA, iChemistry)



Education/Experience

You have an academic education as a work environment/occupational health and safety engineer or similar with 5-10 years work experience, or alternatively have acquired corresponding knowledge through longer work experience.
You have good knowledge and experience:

- of working with chemical risks including occupational exposure limits and exposure measurements.
- with Swedish legislation regarding work environment and its application.
- of risk assessments.
- in root cause analyses.
- in integrating health and safety as part of the general culture in the workplace.

Furthermore, knowledge of battery manufacturing, process industry, process safety and the Machine Directive are merited. Experience from the construction and civil engineering sector is also an advantage.

Specific Skills/Abilities

You are fluent in English and can write in both English and Swedish. Driver’s license class B is a required.

As a person, you are highly organized, result-driven and has a can do attitude. You are also trustworthy, proactive and flexible. We see it as a prerequisite that you have the ability to prioritize based on the business strategies and needs in an everyday life with sometimes a high pace and tight deadlines. You also have the ability to be persistent in your challenges and to complete your work tasks. Furthermore you have a good ability to analyse information to find the root cause.

You are responsive, communicative and have the ability to work well with others in a team environment, as well as independently. We also cherish that you have a sense of humor.

Apply with CV and cover letter or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full time employment, fixed salary.

Planned starting date is asap.

Northvolt makes green batteries for a blue planet. Affordable cells and high-quality battery systems. All manufactured with a record-low carbon footprint. Purposely built to provide Europe with the opportunity to switch to renewable energy – efficiently and entirely.

To accomplish this, we do things differently. We design, manufacture, and recycle everything under one roof. We even build our own factories. All this is incredibly challenging and requires us to think in unconventional ways. We’re constantly experimenting, learning and adapting to make batteries so great – they will one day make oil history.

Northvolt is growing fast. We’re staffing our international office in Stockholm, our R&D facility, Northvolt Labs, in Västerås, as well as our Gdansk facility for production of battery systems. We're also hiring for our two gigafactories: Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå, Sweden, and Northvolt Zwei in Salzgitter, Germany. We want to work with smart individuals from all disciplines. Strong individuals that truly want to make a positive impact on the future. Those of us already on board share a passion for our mission. We’re prepared to work hard in pursuit of excellence. We enjoy the ride and our main drive is to make a difference for real. As a team, we’re dedicated to thinking new, working hard and having fun.