Assistant of Department Safety Officer (EP-DI-2025-29-GRAP)

Job Description

Your responsibilities

We are seeking an Assistant Department Safety Officer to join the EP Safety Office. In this role, you will support the department in ensuring a safe working environment by assessing risks, conducting inspections, and maintaining safety documentation.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Conduct risk assessments for EP activities in experimental areas, laboratories, and workshops, ensuring the implementation of necessary control measures.
• Perform general safety inspections across various activities and installations, coordinating specialized technical inspections with domain experts.
• Assist activity supervisors in preparing essential safety documentation, including operational and maintenance procedures.
• Create and maintain safety files on CERN database (EDMS) for different installations
• Participate in safety-related meetings, collaborating with other safety officers to address and improve safety standards. Any specific knowledge in a certain safety domain (fire, chemical, cryogenic, etc.) could be translated into the role of a Specialised Safety Officer, to support the safety office in assessments related with that domain.

More information here: https://ep-th-safety.web.cern.ch/team

Your profile

Skills

• Knowledge of health and safety principles and associated methodologies;
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office package
• Fluent in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State .
• You have a professional background in Engineer or Physicist (or a related field) and have either:
  • a Master's degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;
  • or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 31.03.2025 at 23:59 hrs CET.

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-May-2025

This position involves:

• Work in Radiation Areas.
• Interventions in underground installations.
• A valid driving licence.

Job reference: EP-DI-2025-29-GRAP

Field of work: Health, Safety and Environment

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6287  and 6911  Swiss Francs per month (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN's comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

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