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Are you an experienced Occupational Health and Safety Specialist driven by creating sustainable workplaces where people thrive, develop, and perform at their best? Do you want to combine strategic work with the opportunity to make a real difference for the business, managers, and employees? Then this might be the role for you.

You, us, and the job
As an Occupational Health and Safety Specialist, you are an expert and close collaboration partner to management, HR, and operations regarding issues related to occupational health, rehabilitation, and work adjustment. The role offers numerous contact points and gives you the opportunity to influence and further develop processes, ways of working, and collaborations that create long-term value for both employees and the business.

With us, you will have a key role in strengthening PostNord’s strategic occupational health and safety work and contributing to sustainable working lives in a business that has significant importance for society.

What you will do

In the role of Occupational Health and Safety Specialist, you will:

• Be involved in driving and further developing strategic and preventive occupational health and safety work at the national level.
• Work to ensure that operations comply with occupational health and safety legislation, regulations, and other relevant rules.
• Develop processes and ways of working within rehabilitation and work adjustment, strengthening the link to systematic occupational health and safety work.
• Provide expert support to management, HR, and managers in complex occupational health and safety issues.
• Be responsible for and further develop the collaboration with occupational health services and other external providers.
• Act as a contractual contact and requirement setter towards external providers, contributing to tenders and ongoing contract follow-up.
• Provide support to operations during tender procedures and RFQ processes within the occupational health and safety area.
• Plan and conduct training for managers and HR at both basic and advanced levels.
• Collaborate with safety organizations, safety representatives, and other central stakeholders to strengthen and develop occupational health and safety work.
• Develop and improve technical support systems and ways of working for, for example, risk assessments, safety rounds, and follow-ups.
• Identify areas for improvement through analysis and follow-up, and translate insights into concrete actions.

Who you are
To succeed in the role, you must be able to combine strategic thinking with a pragmatic and solution-oriented approach. You easily build trust and relationships at all levels of the organization. At the same time, you are driven by development and change and have the ability to translate complex issues into clear processes, structures, and solutions.

We would like you to be:

• Analytical and able to identify both strengths and areas for development within occupational health and safety work.
• Strategic and long-term oriented, while also skilled at translating plans into concrete activities and results.
• Communicative and pedagogical, with the ability to adapt messages to the target audience and context.
• Relationship-building and skilled at collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Independent, proactive, and accustomed to driving issues all the way from idea to implementation.
• Change-oriented and motivated by developing businesses, processes, and ways of working.
• Committed to creating conditions for sustainable working lives where people can thrive and perform over time.

What you bring with you

We are looking for someone who has:

• An academic education in occupational health and safety or related fields.
• At least seven years of experience in occupational health and safety work, strategic process leadership, and business development.
• A good understanding of the connection between work, occupational health and safety, and health, within both physical and organizational and social work environments.
• Extensive knowledge of occupational health and safety legislation and relevant case law.
• Experience in systematically developing preventive occupational health and safety work and driving development initiatives.
• Competence in alcohol, drug, and addiction issues in working life.
• Experience in setting requirements, procuring, and following up on specialist support such as occupational health services and other external providers, and developing these collaborations.
• Collaboration with safety organizations and safety representatives.
• Good experience in planning and conducting training for managers and HR at an advanced level.
• Experience with technical support systems for occupational health and safety work, as well as the ability to further develop and improve these.
• Very good ability to communicate and create engagement around policies, guidelines, and ways of working.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish and good knowledge of English, both spoken and written.

Welcome to apply
We conduct ongoing candidate selection, so do not wait to send your application. Do you have questions about the position? Email [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!

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24/7 we are on the move – from one person to another, from one company to another. Every day we deliver over 4.5 million letters and 600,000 parcels. Every shipment is important – mail, parcels, and logistics enable relationships and business. Here you get to influence!

PostNord is the leading provider of parcel and logistics services to, from, and within the Nordics. We are over 26,500 employees, and as one of the largest employers in the Nordics, we take great social responsibility. We offer an attractive and developmental workplace where employees can grow and thrive. With us, you get fair working conditions according to collective agreements, pension benefits, wellness allowances, and other benefits through our own employee foundation, PostNord Plus. We prioritize both our customers and our employees, believing that development and career opportunities are the foundation for being an attractive workplace for employees and a total supplier for our customers.

We are leading the industry into the low-carbon economy, with the goal of becoming fossil-free by 2030. We continuously work to reduce our environmental impact by investing in fossil-free transport and developing sustainable solutions for our customers and employees. With our expertise and unique distribution network, we develop conditions for the communication and trade of the future.