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Do you want to work on creating a safe and sustainable working environment? SSAB Special Steels is looking for a driven and engaged Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Engineer who wants to contribute to developing and improving our workplace. We offer an exciting and varied role where you will have the opportunity to influence both strategically and operationally. This 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 operations. As part of our specialist function, you will work with analyzing and managing complex OHS challenges. In close collaboration with operations, you will provide advice and support in identifying risks, suggesting measures, and creating action plans to improve the working environment. Your work together with operations is crucial to ensuring a safe and sustainable workplace for all our employees.

About the role

As an OHS 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 safety culture, follow up on OHS goals, and ensure compliance with legal requirements in dialogue with operations.

The role also involves collaboration with contractors, external parties, and authorities to ensure that SSAB follows current legislation and internal guidelines.

Your main responsibilities

• TRIF and LTIF, including trend analysis, reporting, and follow-up.
• Investigations and analysis of accidents and incidents, including root cause analysis and recommendation of measures.
• Management and follow-up in the IA system, as well as ensuring that safety statistics are used for continuous improvements and providing reports on accident statistics.
• Advising managers and operations on OHS issues, including interpretation of legislation, risk assessments, and safety rounds.
• Development, planning, and implementation of training in OHS, safety culture, and risk management.
• Coordination of OHS issues related to contractors and subcontractors, including ensuring they meet SSAB's requirements.
• Contact and collaboration with authorities during inspections, reporting, and OHS-related questions.
• Development of OHS routines, instructions, policies, and advisory documents, as well as creating action plans to handle complex OHS challenges.
• Contribute to our structured annual cycle for OHS work – where you both develop systems and methods and support operations in recurring activities related to legal requirements, ISO standards, and OHS practice.
• Drive learning and improvement by applying best practices and spreading knowledge from both internal experiences and external comparisons.

About you

We are looking for you who have a few years of experience working as an OHS Engineer, OHS Specialist, HSE Specialist, or equivalent. You have relevant education in the OHS field, or alternatively other education and experience that the employer considers equivalent.

We see that you have:

• Good knowledge of OHS legislation and its application in industrial operations.
• Good understanding of machine safety and the regulations governing the area, such as the Machinery Directive, upcoming Machinery Regulation, relevant prescriptions, standards, and requirements for risk assessment, technical protection, and safe working methods.
• Good knowledge of ISO 45001 and familiarity with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, which gives you a holistic understanding of OHS, quality, and environment.
• Analytical and solution-oriented ability, with the capacity to identify and handle complex OHS issues.
• Good communication skills and thrive working both independently and in teams.
• Experience in driving OHS projects and implementing OHS improvements.
• Previous experience with authority contact and OHS investigations.
• Driver's license class B and good digital competence, including Office 365, the IA system, and other relevant OHS systems.
• As a person, you have the ability to act as a secure and professional partner to operations.
• You combine a supportive and solution-oriented approach with the ability to set requirements and guide when needed.
• You can analyze complex issues, create structure, and drive change forward based on legal requirements, governance, compliance, and operational needs.
• You are objective, clear, and confident in your professional assessment, even when different perspectives or interests need to be weighed against each other.
• You have the ability to translate requirements, risks, and analyses into practical solutions that work in everyday life and contribute to sustainable and long-term OHS work.

Qualifications that are Meritorious

• Experience from the manufacturing industry.
• Experience in regulatory enforcement.
• Basic knowledge in construction OHS coordination.
• Experience in a leadership position, such as a manager with personnel responsibility or project manager.

A few words from your future manager

"Here, you will become a key person in the work to create a safe, secure, and sustainable working environment – a prerequisite for us to deliver world-class steel. You will have significant responsibility for driving and developing OHS work, where your ability to analyze, guide, and translate insights into concrete actions becomes crucial. As an OHS Engineer, you are both supportive and demanding – always with the best interests of operations in focus. We work together with engagement and professionalism to make a difference every day – always with the best interests of operations in focus. Welcome to become part of our team!"

— Kristoffer Linde, Department Manager OHS

The Recruitment Process

1. Apply
2. Digital Interview
3. Tests
4. Come and meet us
5. Checks/References
6. Signing

Do you have any questions about the position?

Please contact Kristoffer Linde, Department Manager OHS, [email protected].