Junior Safety Support Officer (TE-RAS-GLO-2025-70-GRAE)

Job Description

Your responsibilities

The Technology Department at CERN is responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of key accelerator hardware, including systems such as cryogenics, vacuum, surface treatment, magnets, and machine protection. Within this department, the Safety Team plays a vital role in ensuring occupational health and safety, safeguarding the well-being of staff, collaborators, and the surrounding environment.

As a Junior Safety Support Officer, your responsibilities will include carrying out safety risk assessments for a range of technological processes, evaluating the conformity of prototype devices and machinery, and developing appropriate compensatory safety measures. You will also be expected to follow up on recommended actions and ensure thorough documentation of all findings. During your time at CERN, the accelerators will be operational, and your primary focus will be the assessment of safety aspects related to activities taking place within CERN's technical buildings.

Your profile

Skills

• Knowledge of occupational health and safety;
• Understanding of technical analysis methods;
• Experience in producing safety documentation.

The following experience would be an advantage:

• Familiarity with risk assessment methodologies;
• Practical experience with content management systems (CMS), like Drupal or WordPress;
• Knowledge of Directive 2006/42/CE (Machinery Directive).

Language requirement:

Spoken and written French, with a commitment to learn English.

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, Safety and Environment (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: 12.05.2025 at 23:59 CEST.

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

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-September-2025

This position involves:

• A valid driving licence.

Job reference: TE-RAS-GLO-2025-70-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.