Health & Safety Professional

Are you passionate about ensuring a safe and healthy workplace? Do you have a knack for identifying potential hazards and implementing effective safety measures? If so, we want you to join our team as a Health & Safety (H&S) Professional  at Novo Nordisk. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.
Novo Nordisk has been globally recognized as the Best Place to Work, topping the ranks for two consecutive years in 2022 and 2023. It is an exciting time to join Novo Nordisk and be part of a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, helping us achieve our aspirations to establish a global presence in the industry.

About the departmentNovo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 100 years of innovation in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, hemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 6,000 people in 80 countries, and markets our products in more than 170 countries.
You will join the Business Support Department in our General Administration Team at our Koriyama Factory in Fukushima. Our team is committed to assisting the management on developing strategies and policies to meet business needs. We foster a collaborative and supportive atmosphere, ensuring that H&S initiatives are effectively implemented and supported. With a focus on safety, mental well-being, and total employee health, we strive to create a safe and healthy work environment for all.

The position
As a Health & Safety Professional, you will:

• Conduct regular on-site inspections to identify workplace hazards and unsafe practices, ensuring safety standards are met in equipment and working conditions.
• Thoroughly investigate incidents, find root causes, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Educate employees on H&S policies and procedures and ensure staff awareness and adherence to safety protocols and drive a H&S mindset with focus on keeping ourselves and others safe both mentally and physically.
• Engage with the community, stakeholders, and project teams, effectively inform the organization’s H&S performance and initiatives, and provide H&S expertise and support for local projects in close collaboration with the site H&S Partner and Global H&S Partner.
• Collaborate with project teams to integrate H&S considerations into project planning and execution. The first two years of employment, you will be particularly focused on our extensive facility and capacity expansion project at KFA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational health, safety management, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in health and safety roles.
• Familiarity with H&S regulations and standards.
• Experience conducting safety audits and on-site inspections.
• Advanced level of Japanese and English.

Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment.
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
 
At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

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