Join MAX IV as a Chemical Safety Officer (1-year position)

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top universities. The University has around 47 000 students and more than 8 800 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.




Your team
Led by the HSE Group Manager, our safety group comprises three teams: Experimental Safety, Radiation Safety, and General Safety.

Our team of 16 specialists brings diverse expertise in various HSE fields, including security and radiation safety. We provide essential support and guidance to MAX IV projects and operations, ensuring compliance with Swedish safety standards and legal requirements. As our research facility thrives on its innovative and exploratory nature, the Experimental Safety Team (EST) are dedicated to support our staff and researchers to produce excellent science while maintaining the highest safety standards.

Would you like to work at one of the brightest lightsources in the world?

MAX IV is looking for a dedicated Chemical Safety Officer to join our Experimental Safety Team for a temporary 1-year position, covering maternity leave. In this crucial role, you will ensure the safe handling of various solids, liquids, and gases used in user experiments at MAX IV. You will be pivotal in evaluating experimental risk assessments, assigning mitigations, and following up with visits to experimental stations. Your contributions will be key to the team's support and daily operations.

Your main work tasks will be

- Support Experimental Safety Processes: Ensure overall safety in experimental work processes
- Evaluate Safety Aspects: Assess and provide solutions for gas and chemical safety in user experiments
- Assist Beamline Scientists: Provide support concerning safety requests, logistics, and requirements related to gases and chemicals
- Infrastructure Support: Aid relevant groups in developing new infrastructure associated with chemicals and gases
- User Operations Safety: Assist in maintaining safe operations for user activities at the experimental stations
- Experiment Hall Safety: Implement and support safety measures in the experiment hall.

To be successful in this role you need to have the following qualifications

- Educational Background: - MSc. or Ph.D. in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering or equivalent


- Experience: - Practical knowledge and experience in handling hazardous chemicals/gases
- Proficiency in chemical/gas safety management


- Language Skills: - Excellent command of spoken and written English



Below are seen as merits

- Experience in conducting chemical/gas risk assessments for experiments, particularly in synchrotron facilities
- Understanding of technical systems on a synchrotron beamline, gained through work experience or user activity in such facilities
- Proficiency in the Swedish language is considered a strong asset.


As a person you are pragmatic and solution-oriented, demonstrating strong collaboration and communication skills. You are service-minded with high integrity and proactive in addressing safety concerns. These qualities are crucial for our team's success in ensuring transparency, effective communication and safety in our experiments.

Please observe that we will conduct the first interview with selected candidates online via Teams on August the 16th.

What we offer
When you join our MAX IV team, you step into a world of front edge science. We make the invisible visible by supporting scientist 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 with respect for a healthy work-life balance.

Would you like to work in a 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
http://www.sweden.se
https://www.maxiv.lu.se/about-us/careers/compensation-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. It will receive up to 2 000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-ray light.

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