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 join the Environmental Prevention Section (EP), which offers environmental engineering expertise for new projects and existing activities undertaken by the organisation. These include domains such as air, water, soil, noise, waste, and the use of chemical agents, as well as follow-up on environmental incidents or accidents, ensuring that appropriate environmental indicators are defined.

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

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 substances management, including drafting and following up on technical specifications.
• Organising and managing on-site visits at CERN to recommend enhancements 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 a continuous improvement approach to environmental protection at CERN.

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

Your profile

Skills

• Knowledge of French or Swiss environmental regulations, particularly in the areas of soil protection, biodiversity, or hazardous substances.
• Experience as an environmental specialist on worksites is an asset.
• Experience with projects involving industrial accident hazards with environmental consequences is an asset.
• Experience in conducting environmental assessments and implementing preventive measures.
• 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.
• You have a professional background in environmental 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: 13.01.2025 at 23:59 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-2024-212-GRAP

Field of work: Health, Safety and Environment

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6212 and 6828 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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