Health and Safety Engineer (HSE-OHS-PE-2024-33-GRAP)

Job Description

Your responsibilities

The Process Engineering and General Safety Services section, part of CERN's HSE Unit, is providing support to the Organization in matters of safety, including chemical safety, mechanical safety and broad general safety aspects. Within the evolution of the general safety domain, a number of new approaches are being undertaken. This includes: the development of a safety knowledge management system; a toolbox for hazard identification and risk assessment; enhanced project and experiment safety support; and an updated methodology for general safety inspection activities. As a member of the general safety domain team, the role will be to drive the development and implementation of one or more of these new approaches.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Knowledge of hazard identification and analysis, risk assessment and compensatory measures definition;
• Knowledge of risk assessment techniques and tools applicable to complex infrastructure and facilities;
• Safety conformity assessment: knowledge of auditing and certification;
• Occupational safety and risk management: knowledge of assessment of workplace activities;
• Technical and process safety risk management: knowledge of Swiss or French safety legislation and standards, or an equivalent European basis
• Fluent in English or French with the willingness to acquire the other language
• The ability to read and understand regulatory texts in French, standards or other good practices and to produce written summaries.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Health and Safety / Engineering (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: 01.04.2024 at 23:59 CET.

Job reference: HSE-OHS-PE-2024-33-GRAP

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

Target start date: 01-July-2024

This position requires:

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

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6194 and 6808 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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