Health & Safety Specialist for Customer Projects

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Schneider Electric has a great opportunity for the right person to join our team as a Health & Safety Specialist. This role, based in Sweden, will cover the Nordic and Baltic zones, requiring approximately 50% travel to support complex projects across the region.



Your mission:

To be a leader in health and safety for customer projects, a unified safety culture across complex sites, best practices, and ensuring legal compliance. You will establish standardized health and safety practices to foster a culture of continuous improvement and proactively support project managers and teams in implementing these practices. This role is instrumental in guiding the organization toward higher safety standards, acting as a partner to project managers to increase safety awareness and behaviours across our project ecosystem.

Your main responsibilities:

• Create and implement comprehensive health and safety plans that address specific project risks and align with company and customer requirements
• Validate Risk Assessment Method Statements
• Perform regular site audits and inspections, reporting findings, identifying improvement areas, and innovating solutions to elevate safety practices.
• Represents Schneider Electric in customer interactions on Safety matters
• Authority to alert project managers and stop work to ensure compliance with safety standards and protect all Schneider Electric personnel on-site
• Develop, Implement, and Standardize H&S Practices ensuring compliance and consistency across complex projects.
• Set the standard for health and safety across projects, influencing both our contractors and employees on-site to maintain the highest safety standards.
• Closely advise project managers and site managers to enhance safety practices, leading training sessions, toolbox talks, and site inductions as needed to foster a proactive safety culture.
• Support and bring project teams to actively identify, analyse, and learn from safety opportunities and near misses.
• Along with the project managers, assess root causes, implement corrective actions, and ensure that key lessons are retained and applied across future projects, building a culture of continuous safety improvement.
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to address health and safety concerns, ensuring alignment on safety practices and promoting a smooth, safe project delivery.

About you:

Essential

• Health and Safety Expertise: Comprehensive understanding of health and safety practices, especially in electrical safety and work-at-height environments. Certifications such as NEBOSH, OSHA, or equivalent are strongly preferred.
• Minimum 3 years' experience within a similar role in a Construction or Services organization
• Understanding of regional safety regulations across the Nordic and Baltic zones, with the ability to ensure compliance within diverse project sites.
• Strong Communication and Leadership Abilities
• Languages: Proficiency in English is required. Knowledge of Swedish or another Scandinavian language is highly valued.
• Flexibility to travel frequently (approximately 50%) across the Nordic and Baltic zone, supporting multiple projects.

Desirable

• Familiarity with the installation, maintenance, and commissioning of electrical systems, such as UPS systems, batteries, and power cabinets, with the ability to identify associated risks.
• Collaborative and Proactive Mindset
• Knowledge of behaviour-based safety principles and experience in promoting safe behaviours on-site.
• Adaptability and Cultural Awareness

What we offer:

We are excited to offer you the opportunity to be a pioneer in a newly created Health & Safety Specialist role within our organization. This position provides a unique chance to influence and build operational standards that align with both our company values and customer requirements. Join us in shaping a safer work environment and making a lasting impact on our projects across the Nordic and Baltic regions.

You can look forward to growing your career in a dynamic workplace with significant personal responsibility and flexible working models to ensure the right work/life balance.

A dynamic and personal atmosphere, working across teams

A company culture that encourages performance and cooperation

An attractive compensation package including the comprehensive fringe benefits expected of an international company

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