Head of Health & Safety

About the job

Electricity powers our lives. And we move electricity. Every day, we commit ourselves to ensuring supply security in Switzerland. On behalf of Switzerland and in cooperation with international partners, our employees ensure a powerful and reliable electricity grid.

For the management of the Health & Safety team at the headquarters in Aarau, we are looking for you, as a dedicated and ambitious reinforcement, to start as soon as possible in the position

Head of Health & Safety

With passion for safety in electricity supply

In this exciting leadership role, you make an important contribution to ensuring that Swissgrid employees and contracted companies work safely and without health impairments. Your tasks include:

• Leading and further developing our specialist team in the Health & Safety department
• Ensuring the holistic operation of the department with the main goal of promoting safe working at Swissgrid and on our construction sites in high-voltage grid construction
• Continuous development of the Health & Safety domain to further advance the safety culture at Swissgrid as well as at the contracted companies
• Further development of safety standards, methods, and tools to ensure continuous improvement
• Assuming safety-specific committee functions in the Swiss and European environment, maintaining a network with relevant stakeholders, partners, and authorities within and outside the industry, and representing Swissgrid's interests

This is how you make a difference

You are an integrative and empathetic person with extensive experience in leading cross-site teams and are distinguished by your integrity, result orientation, and communicative qualities with a pronounced hands-on mentality. Furthermore, you bring the following:

• Safety specialist / engineer or comparable qualification in the European environment
• Many years of leadership experience and experience in managing and further developing the Health & Safety department
• Presence and competence as a figure of identification for Health & Safety at Swissgrid
• Experienced in dealing with executive management, internal and external partners, as well as contracted companies
• Affinity for the complex environment of critical infrastructure in Switzerland
• Very good German and French skills; English or Italian is an advantage

This is how we inspire you

We offer varied and exciting tasks in a company unique to Switzerland and a state-of-the-art working environment in close proximity to Aarau station. In addition, we offer you the following benefits:

• Modern workplace design and working methods
• The opportunity to actively shape the future of the energy system
• Flexible working hours (42 hours per week) including home office
• At least 30 working days of holiday plus company holidays between Christmas and New Year
• Progressive social benefits and an attractive pension fund

We introduce ourselves

Welcome to the backbone of Swiss electricity supply! The Health & Safety team sets the framework conditions for safe and healthy working at Swissgrid. With enthusiasm and persistence, we promote awareness and safety-compliant behaviour among our internal and external stakeholders. I – you – we: Safe together. Together, we ensure that the quality of life of all persons working for Swissgrid is maintained.

Contact person

If interested, Charlotte De Keersmaecker looks forward to receiving your complete application documents via the career portal.