Junior Safety Officer (BE-ASR-SU-2025-30-GRAE)
Publication date:
05 March 2025- Place of work:Geneva
Job summary
Join CERN as a Junior Safety Officer in the Safety Unit of the Beams department. This role offers a dynamic work environment with great benefits.
Tasks
- Evaluate health and safety hazards in the workplace.
- Enhance the safety management system effectively.
- Conduct safety inspections and risk assessments.
Skills
- Two years max experience in Health and Safety engineering required.
- Knowledge of risk analysis and incident management.
- Fluency in English; French is a plus.
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Job Description
Your responsibilities
Are you passionate about workplace safety and risk management?
Our Safety Unit of the Beams department is looking for a Junior Safety Officer.
In this position, you will:
- Assess health and safety hazards at the workplace.
- Contribute to the improvement of the safety management system.
- Participate in Safety Inspections.
- Take part in risk assessments of beam operations activities.
- Investigate on accidents at the workplace.
- Document safety processes.
Your profile
Skills
- Experience with safety management, including management of safety documentation.
- Knowledge of risk analysis with the ability to conduct risk analysis and define appropriate compensatory measures.
- Knowledge of incident management with the ability to methodically analyse incidents and define corrective measures.
- Knowledge of operational health and safety.
- 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 .
- By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Health and Safety engineering (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor's or Master's degree.
- You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
- Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
- Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.
Additional Information
Job closing date: 29.04.2024 at 23:50h (midnight) CET.
Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Target start date: 01-June-2025
Job reference: BE-ASR-SU-2025-30-GRAE
Field of work: Health, Safety and Environment
What we offer
- A monthly stipend ranging between 5196 and 5716 Swiss Francs (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.
Diversity has been an integral part of CERN's mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.
