Health & Safety Director

Do you want to enhance health & safety development in an international organisation Can you take initiative motivate others and ensure compliance with Danish Health & Safety regulations And are you experienced in developing and implementing health & safety management systems with a strategic and operational mindset Then become our Health & Safety Director and contribute to creating a safer tomorrow.

Enhance sustainable health & safety practices
To ensure a steady course and a deeper integration of our management system into business processes and culture we are looking for a Health & Safety Director to join our team. We are a Group team utilising our skills globally with the responsibility for the Danish part of the organisation comprising close to 4000 employees. Our team includes 15 management representatives and 20 safety representatives working alongside our customers on some of Denmarks most significant and innovative projects in health and safety.

We are proud to have contributed to projects like the ISO 45001:2018 certification initiative which strategically improved all aspects of health & safety within our Danish business and other prestigious projects in the construction and environmental research industries.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Collaborate with the Health & Safety Organisation including employee and management representatives at COWI HQ regional offices and on-site projects to set the direction and facilitate continuous HS development.
Promote an environment prioritising Health & Safety to support a speak-up culture enabling learning from mistakes and collective improvement.
Ensure COWI A/S complies with national legal requirements under Arbejdsmiljøloven and any Group requirements from the ISO 45001 certification.
Participate in Group H&S activities and Support and provide sparring to the overall responsible Group Team (QHSE).
Oversee and follow up on findings from external ISO 45001 audits for COWI A/S.
Provide HS performance input to the Management Review report to Senior Management liaise with relevant stakeholders and ensure timely communication of H&S performance information to key stakeholders.

Your Skills. Our Team. Together we design the future.
Like us you believe that leadership success comes from setting a clear and meaningful direction. Youre skilled at organising and coordinating a group around a common purpose encouraging ownership and open trust-based dialogue. You encourage and uplift peers through teamwork and positive feedback allowing each individual to play their part effectively. Attracting and developing a diverse group of high-potential team members is at the top of your agenda as is creating an inclusive caring and trusting culture around the Health and Safety area.

On top of that you will:

Hold 5 years of experience in developing health & safety strategies and objectives within international organisations.
Implement maintain and further develop health & safety management systems in DK including management reviews objective setting process descriptions communication and training.
Understand all health and safety risk factors in psycho-social and physical work environments using a risk-based approach.
Ensure compliance and contribute to ISO 45001 certification: familiarity with ISO 27001.
Stay updated with new developments studies and initiatives in health and safety management and improvements.
Experience with on-site or field engineering work is beneficial.
Possess effective communication skills in Danish and English.

A place to work and so much more
At COWI we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity and sometimes even our courage to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and we cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region the UK North America and India we are currently more than 7500 people who bring their expertise in engineering architecture energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:
To us a fair reward is more than a salary. We want to support our people professionally and personally as well. Some of our benefits include:

Robust technical networks and knowledge-sharing communities (areas of expertise).
A dedicated and active forum for colleagues with a focus on QHSE.
COWI Academy our learning platform packed with quality courses in different disciplines.
Social communities and activities to ensure that we have fun along the way.

Got more questions
If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer please reach out to Process & Quality Director DK Jørgen Pedersen at or Process & Quality Director NO Camilla D. Gressnes at

Get to know us even better at our website where you can learn more about our projects our strategy what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Before you apply
All you need to include in your application is your CV no photo or application letter. At an interview you can tell us everything we need to know about why youre interested in joining COWI. As for the photo we prefer to form our first impression in person rather than from a picture.

Diversity is fundamental to COWI inclusion is key.
We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure our leaders serve as role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture in which diverse perspectives and ideas are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.

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