Are you our new occupational safety coordinator for one of Copenhagen Municipality's largest operating departments?

Do you want to help strengthen and develop the occupational safety environment and environmental work for 500 colleagues in an exciting operations organization that works around the clock to ensure a well-functioning city?

Are you passionate about preventive occupational safety work, reducing sickness absence, and organizational development? Can you drive cross-cutting involvement processes, and do you have a flair for advisory work, strategic development, and communication? Do you have experience with occupational safety or environmental work from other larger operations organizations? Then you may be our next occupational safety coordinator.

About the job and your responsibilities

As an occupational safety coordinator you will be responsible for supporting the safety work in Bynatur og Renhold with equal parts advisory, development, and organizational wear. You will need to move between strategic and operational tasks, where you both find job satisfaction in initiating and completing tasks.

Your main tasks will, among other things, be in collaboration with your colleagues to

• drive the occupational safety organization so that the link between decisions at the MED level and the close occupational safety work is strong, meaningful, and effective
• prepare decision proposals to the management team, MED and the occupational safety organization on occupational safety conditions
• plan and drive larger cross-cutting involvement processes as follow-up on wellbeing surveys, formulation of APV action plans etc.
• advise the units’ occupational safety leaders and safety representatives
• handle ongoing cases, e.g., in relation to the Danish Working Environment Authority, where you are responsible for case processing in close collaboration with the responsible occupational safety leader
• support prevention of sickness absence
• follow up on work accidents with focus on preventive measures and action plans
• drive environmental work – including internal and external audits, space reviews, inspections and ongoing controls
• communication of important knowledge, frameworks and rules in the occupational safety field at eye level and without finger-waving
• ensure maintenance and updating of pages about occupational safety and environmental work on the intranet.

You will become part of the management secretariat in Bynatur og Renhold with reference to the secretary-general. Here you will join 20 capable colleagues who solve many different tasks within political support, leadership support, strategy, organizational development, internal communication and not least facilitation of the MED and occupational safety organization. Here you will be part of a close working community on organizational development, occupational safety coordination, systematic follow-up on sickness absence, competence development, facilitation and leadership support.

About you

As a person you are energetic and persistent. You have a strong presence and can build trusting relationships at all levels of the organization.

We anticipate that you have an academic education or the like and at least 2-3 years of prior experience with strategic occupational safety work in a large operations organization, where you have learned to navigate between many opposing interests. It would also be an advantage if you have experience in leading larger cross-cutting change projects.

We also place emphasis on the fact that you

• are innovative and solution-oriented
• are quick to acquire new knowledge
• thrive with a broad task portfolio
• have good communication skills and can explain complex rules and issues at eye level
• have a structured approach to task solving
• have a digital mindset
• approach the task with good humor.

About the department Bynatur and Renhold

Bynatur og Renhold is one of four professional departments in the Climate, Environment and Technical Administration.

The core tasks of Bynatur and Renhold include cleaning the city as well as the operation and development of the city’s parks and green areas. We are also responsible for the city’s public toilets, the winter service with snow removal, pest control and the city’s furniture in public spaces. In short, we are on duty around the clock year-round to keep the city clean, green and inviting for Copenhageners and visitors.

Bynatur and Renhold is thus one of Copenhagen Municipality’s largest operations organizations with over 500 employees from a wide range of trades from gardeners and blacksmiths to academics and engineers with the full spectrum of exciting and demanding occupational safety challenges. The organization has two areas, City Operations and City Spaces, which together are divided into 16 units, each with an occupational safety lead and an occupational safety representative who are responsible for the close occupational safety work near the employees.

Salary and terms of employment

Salary and terms of employment are set in accordance with the applicable collective agreement and after negotiations with the union that has the right to negotiate.

Hiring as soon as possible or no later than December 1, 2026.

More information

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact Secretariat Chief Jannik Knudsen at 20 29 23 23 or [email protected].

Application deadline: Apply via the link no later than Sunday 18 October 2026

We expect to hold interviews on 23 October 2026.

About the Climate, Environment and Technical Administration

The Climate, Environment and Technical Administration handles authorities and provides services to citizens and businesses, among others within the environmental area, local planning, urban renewal, case handling for building applications and the traffic area. In addition, it is the Climate, Environment and Technical Administration that is responsible for cleaning, maintenance and development of the city’s roads and parks, as well as controlling parking. We employ about 2,700 staff and manage a gross budget of just under DKK 4.8 billion.

Application deadline: 18 October 2026

Department: Njalsgade 17 2300 Copenhagen S

Location: Climate, Environment and Technical Administration