Vafabmiljö is seeking an Occupational Health and Safety Specialist

Vafabmiljö Kommunalförbund · Full-time

Gasverksgatan 7, Västerås, Sweden

Do you want to contribute to strengthening a safe, sustainable, and well-organized work environment? In this role, you'll have the opportunity to develop and lead work on the organization's occupational health and safety matters and help create structures that support safety, quality, and long-term development. You will be part of the Quality unit and work alongside colleagues who work in various ways to develop and improve working methods at Vafabmiljö. About the role As an occupational health and safety specialist, you'll have an important role in developing Vafabmiljö's occupational health and safety work. You will work strategically and long-term to develop systematic occupational health and safety efforts and create good conditions for managers and operations to work preventatively. In close collaboration with managers, you will support their occupational health and safety responsibilities. Together, you will develop approaches for risk assessments, monitoring, and preventive occupational health and safety work. You will conduct planning and training sessions, which gives managers knowledge and confidence in their role. You will develop instructions and materials that make it easy to work in a unified way. Since it's important to stay current with developments in the occupational health and safety field, you will ensure that changes in legislation and regulations become part of the organization's working methods. By monitoring risks, deviations, and other occupational health and safety data, you help the organization see what needs to be developed and improved. You will work closely with colleagues in quality, environment, and safety, and together you will develop approaches and support for operations. You will also have contact with safety representatives and other functions through safety committees and various forums. Part of the role is to drive the implementation and continued development of the IA system. The goal is to create a common structure for reporting, monitoring, learning, and improving occupational health and safety work. The assignment requires the ability to navigate many different contact points and act with integrity in complex situations. You need to be able to listen to different perspectives while being able to raise issues in the right forums and advance occupational health and safety matters in a professional and factual manner. Who are you? For you to thrive and succeed in the role, we see that you are a person who builds good relationships and creates trust, both in your competence and in how you meet people. You work independently and have the ability to see the bigger picture, identify development areas, and drive occupational health and safety matters forward in a structured way. Close and constructive collaboration with managers, safety representatives, and other functions is a natural part of the work. The role requires you to be organized, analytical, and communicative, with the ability to translate complex issues into clear working methods and bring others along in change. You are proactive and solution-oriented and combine a strategic perspective with an unpretentious and helpful approach. As part of our team, you are expected to live and lead according to our core values—Trustworthy, Thoughtful, and Innovative (TON)—and to share our commitment to a sustainable society. In this recruitment, great weight will be placed on personal qualities. We see that you have: - Relevant academic education in occupational health and safety, or other education that the employer deems appropriate, combined with documented work experience. - Several years of experience working with occupational health and safety matters. - Good experience interpreting and applying occupational health and safety legislation and regulations. - Experience working consultatively and supporting managers, supervisors, project managers, and others in occupational health and safety work. - Knowledge of leading projects to implement improvements and changes in operations. - Excellent ability to express yourself in Swedish in both speech and writing. - Class B driver's license, manual transmission. It is an advantage if you also have: - Experience working with physical safety. What do you get? With us, you get varied work at a workplace that puts the environment first. Here we care about each other and our work environment. We offer several benefits, including fitness time off. Read more about our benefits here: https://vafabmiljo.cruitive.com/ We want to reflect our customers and society at large, and therefore want to hire people with different backgrounds and value the knowledge and experience that brings. Other good to know: The position is permanent on a full-time basis and may be initiated with a 6-month probationary period. Location at our head office Navet, Gasverksgatan 7, in Västerås. How to apply: Does this sound like the right position for you? Then you're welcome to apply today. The final application deadline is 18/10. We look forward to receiving your application!