Gas Safety Technician - hourly employment

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has around 44 000 students and more than 8 000 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.


Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.




MAX IV is a Swedish national large-scale research laboratory hosted by Lund University.

It provides scientists from Sweden as well as internationally, with state-of-the-art instrumentation for research in areas such as engineering, physics, structural biology, chemistry and nanotechnology. Fully developed it will receive more than 2 000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-ray light.

Your team
Lead by the HSE Group manager, safety group consist of radiation safety, experimental safety and general safety team. We are a group of 20 personnel specializing in various safety aspects namely radiation safety, chemical safety (gases included), machine safety, fire safety, environmental safety and security. The team provides expertise and support for projects and operations in MAX IV by ensuring the compliance to Swedish safety standards and legal requirements, despite the challenging environment of a research facility that explores the unknown relentlessly.  

The Chemical Safety Technician is responsible to monitor, control, and implement laboratory chemical safety standards in the gas storage laboratory. Communicate needs with experimental groups to purchase and maintain supply of experimental gases.

Work duties and areas of responsibility:

- Maintain chemical/gas storage laboratory in accordance with safety laws and regulations set by MAX IV and authorities
- Assist with experimental chemical/gas delivery installations when required
- Prepare hazardous chemical/gas packages for shipment and transfer
- Prepare and maintain complete, accurate, timely, concise and legible records of all chemical/gas safety compliance activities
- Make routine and special observations of the status of chemical/gas safety systems and document summary findings
- Provide advice, assistance, and monitoring services to lab personnel regarding routine chemical safety matters and during contamination clean-up
- Communicate with experimental staff about chemical/gas needs and facilitate purchasing chemical/gas as needed

Requirements:

- University degree or equivalent experience as a chemical safety technician
- Experience working with hazardous gases under pressure
- Knowledge of chemical compatibilities and hazard classifications and the ability to interpret material safety data sheets
- Physically capable of moving a 50L, 80kg bottle of compressed gas

Desirable:

- Experience as a chemical research technician at an experimental laboratory
- Good collaboration skills, as well as knowledge and ability in Swedish and English, both in speech and writing
- Practical knowledge of gas equipment for cylinders

What we offer

When you join our MAX IV family, you step into a world of cutting edge science. We make the invisible, visible, by supporting scientists from all over the world, generating scientific results for the benefit of society. We offer you a multicultural work environment with great opportunities for personal development whilst respecting a healthy work-life balance

Would you like to work in this challenging and supporting environment? Then join us and take the opportunity to make a real difference!

For further information, please visit:
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-lund-university/work-lund-university
https://sweden.se
https://www.maxiv.lu.se/about-us/careerjobs/comp_and_benefits/

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MAX IV is a Swedish national large-scale research laboratory hosted by Lund University. It provides scientists from Sweden as well as internationally, with state-of-the-art instrumentation for research in areas such as engineering, physics, structural biology, chemistry and nanotechnology. Fully developed it will receive more than 2 000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-ray light.

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