Chemical Safety Officer

Your team
The Safety Group at MAX IV, led by the Head of Safety, is structured into three specialized sub-groups: Experimental Safety, Radiation Safety, and General Safety. Together, we are a team of 18 dedicated professionals with expertise across key safety areas including radiation, chemical, fire, laser, machine, environmental safety, and security.

Our mission is to support projects and operations at MAX IV by ensuring compliance with Swedish safety regulations and legal requirements. Operating in the dynamic and demanding environment of a cutting-edge research facility, we take pride in enabling scientific exploration while maintaining the highest standards of safety.

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

MAX IV is looking for a dedicated Chemical Safety Officer to join our Experimental Safety Group. In this key role, you’ll support and evaluate user experiments across our various experimental stations, known as Beamlines.

Each experiment at MAX IV requires a thorough risk assessment, and you will be involved throughout the entire process - from initial planning to final approval. With approximately 20–30 experiments taking place each week, and over 750 conducted annually, your expertise will directly contribute to ensuring safe, cutting-edge research in a highly dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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 beamlines
• Experiment Hall Safety: Implement and support safety measures in the experimental halls

Qualifications:

• Educational Background:
  • Ph.D. in Chemistry or 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

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 solutions oriented with strong collaboration and communication skills. You are service-minded as well as proactive in addressing safety concerns.

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
www.sweden.se
https://www.maxiv.lu.se/about-us/careers/compensation-benefits/

Probation period may apply.