Context & Environment
Medical Officer, HR – Help safeguard health and wellbeing across our Danish operations
Application deadline: Apply as soon as possible, as interviews are held on an ongoing basis.
Contract type: Permanent, full-time
Job location: Esbjerg, with collaboration across onshore and offshore operations
Appetizer
Are you ready to use your medical expertise to make a meaningful impact on people’s health, safety, and wellbeing? Would you like to take on a central advisory role where you help strengthen occupational health, support safe energy operations, and contribute to business continuity both onshore and offshore?
As Medical Officer, you will be a trusted point of contact for health and medical management across TotalEnergies EP Denmark, working closely with HR, HSSE, offshore teams, contractors, headquarters medical specialists, and external stakeholders.
If you are motivated by combining medical knowledge with stakeholder collaboration, proactive health management, and the opportunity to help protect and support our workforce, we encourage you to apply for this role.
Activities
Key responsibilities
As Medical Officer, you will be responsible for medical oversight and health management across TotalEnergies EP Denmark’s onshore and offshore activities. Your responsibilities will include:
- Medical governance and advisory support: Act as point of contact for the headquarters Medical Department, support TotalEnergies EP Denmark contract owners, advise on offshore medical service delivery, and provide medical oversight, expertise, and leadership across onshore and offshore medical provisions.
- Occupational health and absence management: Manage sickness absence, case reviews, return-to-work planning, workplace adaptations, and verification of offshore medical certificates for personnel travelling to worksites.
- Health risk, wellbeing, and business continuity: Monitor health concerns and pandemics, maintain site health risk assessments, promote healthy lifestyles, support wellbeing initiatives, and help minimize operational disruption.
- Compliance, standards, and health surveillance: Support health programs in line with country regulations, TotalEnergies standards, and relevant international standards, and conduct occupational health surveillance data analysis.
- Service and insurance oversight: Investigate medical service complaints or deviations, consult headquarters for medical expertise, and support HR on workforce medical insurance.
- Industrial hygiene and drug testing: Advise within industrial hygiene, support compliance, plan site audits, and manage the company’s Drug and Alcohol Policy and related testing.
- Stakeholder collaboration: Build strong relationships with HR, HSSE, offshore teams, contractors, medical service providers, government health authorities, and relevant Danish offshore committees.
Personal development opportunities
- Shape and develop a central medical advisory role with influence across onshore and offshore operations
- Develop your expertise within occupational health, offshore medical governance, sickness absence management, and business continuity planning
- Gain broad exposure to HR, HSSE, offshore medical services, and external health authority collaboration
- Contribute to health promotion, wellbeing initiatives, and continuous improvement of medical processes and procedures
- Play an important part in safeguarding workforce health, safety, welfare, and operational resilience
What we offer
At TotalEnergies, we believe that our people are our greatest strength. Joining us means becoming part of a diverse global organization where expertise, innovation, and collaboration drive our success. We offer opportunities to develop your skills, grow your career, and contribute to the energy transition while benefiting from a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package.
Total Rewards Package
As part of our commitment to fair and transparent remuneration practices, the base salary range for this position is DKK 753,000 – 1,004,000 annually, reflecting the expected level and scope of the role.
In addition to the base salary, we offer an annual performance-based bonus, pension contribution, employee share ownership program participation, wellbeing and insurance benefits, flexible working practices, training and development opportunities.
The final salary offer will be determined based on objective criteria such as qualifications, relevant experience, competencies, role scope, responsibilities, organizational needs, and market alignment.
Candidate Profile
What we are looking for in a candidate
- Authorization to practice medicine in Denmark
- Experience as a medical doctor in emergency medicine, general medicine, an emergency department, or prehospital emergency medicine beyond student level
- Strong understanding of occupational health, medical governance, sickness absence management, and return-to-work processes
- Ability to advise on offshore medicals, fit-to-return medicals, workplace adaptations, and health risk assessments
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders
- Knowledge of the oil and gas industry is an advantage
- Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) registration as a doctor, or willingness to become certified
We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every requirement, as diverse experiences and perspectives strengthen our team
Additional background and experience
- Experience with occupational health surveillance, medical case reviews, and sickness absence case management
- Ability to work with offshore medical certificate standards such as Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) and the Danish Offshore Medical Certificate (DANOP) including fitness to work offshore
- Knowledge of industrial hygiene, health risk assessments, wellbeing programs, pandemic preparedness, food safety, mental health, and epidemic control is an advantage
- Experience from the oil and gas industry is a plus
Domain: Process
Type of contract: Regular position
Experience: Minimum 10 years
Employer company: TotalEnergies EP Danmark A/S