Do you want to help ensure compliance, certification, and safety in the technologies driving the green energy transition? Join us on an exciting journey at Nel Hydrogen as our new Safety Engineer!
Nel Hydrogen is looking for a Safety Engineer to strengthen our capacity within technical safety, compliance, and certification. In this role, you will help ensure that safety and regulatory requirements are embedded throughout the design and delivery of our products and systems.
Working closely with engineering, project, and execution teams, you will contribute to certification activities, support regulatory compliance, and help ensure that Nel's products and solutions meet relevant industry standards and approval requirements.
If this resonates with you, this could be an exciting opportunity to apply your technical safety and compliance expertise in a global company contributing directly to the green transition.
As a Safety Engineer at Nel Hydrogen, you will work closely with engineering, project, and execution teams to ensure that safety, compliance, and certification requirements are embedded throughout process and product design. You will contribute across tenders, FEED phases, product development, and project execution, acting as a key representative for the technical safety discipline while supporting compliance and certification activities across Nel's product portfolio.
You will help define certification scope, system boundaries, and technical documentation requirements, support interactions with certification bodies, and ensure regulatory requirements are incorporated throughout development and delivery. You will also contribute to system-level safety and risk assessments and support the successful execution of certification and compliance activities.
You will be involved in both analytical and hands-on safety work, contributing to continuous improvement, best practices, and competence development within technical safety.
In this role, you will:
We are looking for a structured and motivated Safety Engineer who enjoys working in multidisciplinary environments and takes a proactive approach to safety and quality. You are systematic in your way of working, thrive on solving complex technical challenges, and collaborate effectively across functions to deliver high-quality results. You have a strong safety-first mindset and are comfortable balancing technical requirements, quality, and project delivery in a dynamic engineering environment.
You bring with you:
The Company has a published Code of Conduct that all employees are expected to follow.
Location: This position can be based in Oslo or Notodden. Some travel should be expected to other Nel locations and occasionally to customer sites.
Nel Hydrogen is the global leader in on-site hydrogen generation and the largest electrolyser manufacturer in the world. Nel Hydrogen is leading the charge into the new green hydrogen economy.
If you are driven by personal initiative combined with loyalty and commitment to your team and the ability to convert complex issues into simple solutions, then we want to talk to you. Join a company that is on the cutting edge of new energy innovations, with an energized, progressive culture.
At Nel, you will join a community where your expertise does more than service a company – it supports a vision. Step into a role where your professional skills will impact the future of green energy.

Nel has a history tracing back to 1927 and is today a leading pure play hydrogen electrolyser technology company with a global presence. The company specializes in Alkaline and PEM technology for production of renewable hydrogen. Nel's product offerings are key enablers for a green hydrogen economy, making it possible to decarbonize various industries such as transportation, refining, steel, and ammonia.
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