Job Description

Your responsibilities

You will join the Occupational Health, Safety, and Environmental Protection Unit (HSE), which supports the organisation in implementing and enforcing its safety policy. Within the HSE Unit, the Environment Group (ENV) monitors the impact of the organisation’s activities on the local environment and provides advice on improvement measures.

Within this group, you will become part of the Environmental Prevention Section (EP), which offers environmental engineering expertise for new projects and ongoing activities undertaken by the organisation. These cover domains such as air, water, soil, noise, waste, and the use of chemical agents, including follow-up on environmental incidents or accidents, while ensuring that appropriate environmental indicators are defined.

As an Environmental Engineer, you will actively contribute to helping CERN minimise its environmental impact.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting CERN Departments and the HSE Unit in defining requirements for conventional environmental protection within the framework of projects and existing activities.
• Leading environmental studies in areas such as soil protection, biodiversity preservation, and hazardous substance management, including drafting and following up on technical specifications.
• Organising and managing site visits at CERN to recommend improvements to environmental practices, documented through official reports or notes.
• Monitoring and ensuring environmental protection during engineering and civil works.
• Raising environmental awareness among all stakeholders.
• Contributing to CERN’s environmental monitoring programme, including on-site investigations and follow-up on pollution incidents, in support of continuous improvement in environmental protection.

More information here: https://hse.cern/fr/services-et-assistance/environmental-protection

Your profile

Skills

• Knowledge of French or Swiss Environmental regulations,
  • more specifically on soil protection, biodiversity or hazardous substances is an asset;
• Ability to conduct environmental assessments and implement preventive measures is an asset.
• Willingness to undertake site visits.
• Proficiency in drafting and writing official documents.
• Fluent in French, with the ability to prepare technical specifications and/or scientific reports, as well as deliver oral presentations in French or, if preferred, 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 environmental 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: 13.01.2025 at 23:59 (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

This position involves:

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

Job reference: HSE-ENV-EP-2024-227-GRAE

Field of work: Health, Safety and Environment

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5134 and 5647 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.