We are looking for people who want to work in safe workplaces!
Gävle, Sverige
Type of Employment Full-time
Job position Safety engineer
Work model On location
Application due date 5 June 2025
Are you the one?

Company description

AFRY offers services in engineering, design, digitalization and consulting. We are dedicated experts in industry, energy and infrastructure, creating value for future generations. AFRY has a global reach with deep roots in the Nordics. Together, we are accelerating the transition to a more sustainable society.

Job description

We at AFRY's Machinery Safety and Health & Safety/HSE Capability Cluster work cross-organizationally within AFRY and support with our specialist knowledge. Through collaboration, we contribute to creating safe and sustainable solutions for our clients. We are now looking for you to strengthen our team with your expertise in occupational health and safety.

EHS, SHE, KMA or HSE? Dear child has many names, no matter what abbreviation or designation you recognize yourself in or prefer, we are looking for you who have worked with and have an interest in issues related to health, safety, work environment and environment. Assignments are carried out both in day-to-day operations and in projects. It is a social advisory role, where you work with legal issues and both operational and strategic advice. Your duties may include:

  • Proactively developing and adapting the client's existing approaches, principles, methods, tools and processes
  • Ensuring safe and effective operations that support compliance with applicable standards, laws and other requirements
  • Educating others on HSE activities
  • Developing and implementing business management systems based on e.g. ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and other standards. ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and AFS 2023:1
  • Report to, and prepare inspections, from authorities
  • Conduct internal audits, gap analyses, audits based on standards, legislation and against customer's own requirements
  • Project management of HSE related projects.
  • Acting in roles such as HSE advisor, Safety manager, HSE coordinator in the different phases of an investment project.
  • Acting as a temporary staffing resource such as HSE manager, HSE coordinator, OHS officer, BAS-P/ BAS-U

We believe that you who apply to us are looking for exciting roles that contain great variety and opportunities for cross-functional collaborations. So, are you curious about how you can contribute your knowledge while developing further? Then you may be the one we are looking for!

The location is either Uppsala, Gävle, Västerås, Falun or Borlänge.

Qualifications

We believe that you have a university or civil engineering degree in the foundation but of course it is not a requirement. However, we would like to see that you have at least 3 years of work experience from HSE work obtained through work in industry and/or construction. You are familiar with and have experience of e.g. risk analyses, incident investigations, safety audits of equipment or similar.

As a person, you are trustworthy with the ability to quickly familiarize yourself with new environments, industries and products. You are independent but also like to work with colleagues to develop and learn from each other. To succeed in the role of consultant, you also need to be responsive, flexible and like challenges as well as be communicative and have the ability to build relationships both internally and externally. Of course, you are careful and quality conscious with good knowledge of Swedish and English, both in speech and writing and you have a B driving license.

If you have experience in electrical safety and have previously been active in the energy industry, it is a meritorious experience.

Further information

Our consulting group is characterized by collaboration, openness, professionalism and we are driven by creating added value for our customers.

We offer a workplace with a forward-looking spirit and security in the form of collective agreements and staff benefits for all of our employees. Our staff club organizes social activities in and outside the office.

Contact person:
Christian Kron, Group Manager
christian.kron@afry.com

For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact recruitment partner Fanny Sjödell, fanny.sjodell@afry.com   

We encourage both internal and external applicants.

We interview on a continuous basis so do not wait to submit your application, consisting of a CV and preferably a shorter personal letter describing how you meet the qualifications. The deadline for applications is 2025-06-05, so please apply today!

Some roles may require security clearance before assignments with certain clients - if this is relevant for the position you have applied for, you will receive more information about it at a later stage.

At AFRY, we drive change in everything we do. We believe that change happens when bold ideas come together, when we collaborate, innovate and embrace creative solutions, that is how we create the future. We are constantly looking for qualified candidates to join our inclusive teams around the world. Join us and accelerate the green transition