Health & Safety Specialist

Health & Safety Specialist Onshore in BA Wind


Become part of our Mission and help us to achieve our goal of being fossil free within one generation.

Business Area Wind is responsible for Vattenfall’s Onshore and Offshore Wind as well as other non-hydro Renewable activities like Solar and Batteries. Today we develop, construct and operate wind generation and solar and batteries installations in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. We are now looking for the right person to fill the position as Health &Safety Specialist Onshore in BA Wind.


Overall purpose of the role:
To give independent, authoritative advice and support to ensure H&S compliance including legal requirements, the BA Wind H&S ambition and industry best practice through early phases of the asset lifecycle.


As Health & Safety Specialist Onshore you have the following key responsibilities:
• Give independent advice (wanted/unwanted) and support the project team on implementation of the BA Wind H&S Management System in accordance with ISO 45001.
• Support and coach project teams and managers to fulfil their H&S responsibilities and increase H&S awareness and leadership.
• Participate in Technical Due Diligence workshops and Turbine Walkdowns with area team.
• Monitor legislation concerning design / machine directive / permits, etc.
• Ensure accidents/incidents are reported and investigated in accordance with company procedures and legal requirements.
• Carry out and contribute to internal/external H&S inspections, audits and safety assessments when required and on completion provide written reports.
• Effectively coordinate, communicate and report on H&S status.
• Support the Onshore unit to continually improve their H&S culture, leadership and performance.
• Support development and implementation of our H&S strategies, plans, regulations and standards.
• Understand current and future business needs for assigned area and estimate workload.
• Continuously prioritize and drive progress on H&S Onshore goals and change initiatives.


Your profile as Health & Safety specialist
• At least 5 years relevant experience in working in a high hazard industry such as construction / power industry and/or Wind industry with focus on Health & Safety.
• Experience as Machine Safety Expert is a strong plus.
• Relevant Health & Safety education and BAS-P experience.
• Strong ability to influence on management level, build relations, understand the business, manage expectations & facilitate decisions.
• Proactive and ability to function fully independently.
• Full and detailed understanding of EU & Swedish Health & Safety legislation.
• Ability to advise and support projects to ensure high H&S standards.
• Good communication skills both verbally and written in English and Swedish.
The location of this position is Stockholm Solna, regular business trips are required.


We welcome your application, including CV and cover through the portal, last day to apply 9th August 2020. Selection and interviews are held after last application date. We do not accept applications through email.


For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact recruiter Shala Jamshid, Shala.Jamshid@vattenfall.com. Kindly note that it will take us longer to reply due to holidays.


Trade Union representatives in Sweden via Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00, Rolf Ohlsson - Akademikernas, Christer Gustavsson - Ledarna Leif Karlsson - SEKO, samt Anders Bohlin – Unionen och du når samtliga via Vattenfalls växel, 08 739 50 00.


At Vattenfall, we believe, that the only way to make fossil free living within a generation possible is to power and help manage all energy-aspects of our customers’ lives to create climate smarter living building by building, district by district, city by city.

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