Do you want to work to create a safe and sustainable work environment?

We are looking for a driven and committed work environment engineer who wants to contribute to developing and improving our work environment. We offer an exciting and varied role where you will have the opportunity to influence both strategically and operationally.

The position is central to SSAB's journey towards the goal of becoming the world's safest steel company. You will be a key player in translating these goals into concrete improvements in the business. As part of our specialist function, you will work to analyze and manage complex work environment challenges. Working closely with the business, you will provide advice and support in identifying risks, proposing measures and creating action plans to improve the working environment. Your work together with the business is crucial to ensure a safe and sustainable workplace for all our employees. As a work environment engineer with us, you have a broad and important role where you support managers and employees in creating a safe and healthy workplace. You work both operationally and strategically to develop the safety culture, follow up on work environment goals and ensure compliance with legal requirements.

The role also includes collaboration with contractors, external parties and authorities to ensure that SSAB complies with applicable legislation and internal guidelines.

About you

We are looking for you who have a few years of experience working as a work environment engineer, work environment specialist or in a similar role. You have an academic degree in the field of occupational health and safety or another relevant education and experience that is considered equivalent.

To succeed in the role, we would like you to have:

• Good knowledge of occupational health and safety legislation and its application in industrial activities.
• You have a good knowledge of ISO 45001 and are also familiar with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, which gives you a holistic understanding of occupational health and safety, quality and the environment.
• Analytical and solution-oriented ability, with the ability to identify and deal with complex occupational health and safety issues.
• Good communication skills and enjoy working both independently and in teams.
• Experience in running work environment projects and implementing work environment improvements.
• Previous experience of contact with authorities and work environment investigations.
• B driving license and good digital skills, including Office 365, the IA system and other relevant work environment systems.

As a strategic partner, you are both supportive, guiding and demanding. You act impartially and neutrally in your analyses - always with the best interests of the business in focus. By applying best practice, you help drive development forward and ensure that the work environment contributes to SSAB's overall goal: to deliver world-class steel.

Additional qualifications

• Experience from the manufacturing industry.
• Basic knowledge of machine safety.
• Experience in exercising authority.
• Basic knowledge of construction work environment coordination.
• Experience in a leading position, for example as a manager with personnel responsibility or project manager.

Your personal qualities - in line with SSAB's values and how we act in everyday life

We place great value on your personal qualities. To succeed in the role, you need to live our values of Driven, Genuine and Leading the Way and at the same time act in line with the criteria that govern our daily cooperation and leadership.

• Driven - you take initiative, are goal-oriented and work in a solution-oriented way to improve the work environment. You want to develop ways of working and add value to the business.
• Honest - you act with integrity and transparency, building trust and long-term relationships. You are unpretentious and have a trust-based leadership style.
• Step ahead - you identify and analyze future challenges in the field of occupational health and safety.

Through a proactive approach, you contribute to a safer and more sustainable workplace.

In addition, we value that you in everyday life show the ability to:

• Collaborate - you build relationships, work cross-functionally and create dialogue between specialist function and business.
• Take responsibility - you are reliable, keep your promises and act consistently even in difficult situations.
• Anchor & influence - you can communicate and anchor changes and inspire others to take responsibility.
• Be flexible & responsive - you understand different needs and priorities and balance demanding with supporting.
• Be inclusive - you contribute to a work environment where everyone feels welcome and respected.

Your main responsibilities

• Strategic and operational health and safety management linked to our TRIF and LTIF safety objectives, including trend analysis, reporting and follow-up.
• Investigation and analysis of accidents and incidents, including root cause analysis and recommendation of actions.
• Management and follow-up in the IA system, as well as ensuring that safety statistics are used for continuous improvement and providing reports in accident statistics.
• Advice to managers and operations in work environment issues, including interpretation of legislation, risk assessments and safety rounds.
• Development, planning and implementation of training courses in occupational health and safety, safety culture and risk management.
• Coordination of work environment issues related to contractors and subcontractors, including ensuring that they meet SSAB's requirements.
• Contact and collaboration with authorities on inspections, reporting and work environment related issues.
• Development of work environment procedures, instructions, policies and advisory documents, as well as the development of action plans to address complex work environment challenges.
• Contribute to our structured annual cycle for health and safety management - where you both develop systems and working methods and support the business in recurring activities linked to legal requirements, ISO standards and health and safety practices.
• Drive learning and improvement by applying best practice and disseminating knowledge from both internal experiences and external comparisons.

Recruitment process

1. Apply

2. Tests

3. Interview

4. Reference checks

5. Come and meet us

6. Health check

7. Sign

Background check may be conducted as part of the recruitment process.

Do you have questions regarding the position?

Contact Kristoffer Linde, Head of Work Environment Department, kristoffer.linde@ssab.com