Fire Safety Engineer Jobs at CERN

About CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (also known as CERN) is the European research organization. It operates the largest Particles Physics laboratory in the world. This 1954 established organization has 23 member countries. Using the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments, scientists of CERN studies basic constituents of matter – fundamental particles that collide together at close to the speed of light. In general, CERN’s main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure for high-energy physics research. And as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN through international collaborations.

About position

CERN is accepting applications for prominent Fire Safety Engineers to be a part of the largest particle physics research laboratory in the world. The incumbent will be joining the Fire Safety Engineering team and a multidisciplinary team of Safety experts, covering several engineering domains.

In particular, the Fire Safety Engineers will perform the following tasks in the CERN

• Check and validate fire design concepts for key CERN projects.
• Provide support to the design and assessment of research facilities, not fully covered by common standards, from a fire safety standpoint.
• Similarly, provide technical guidance and inputs for the scoping and preparation of fire risk assessments for CERN infrastructures.
• Perform applied research activities in FSE fields related to the subject of interest for the Organization.
• Contribute to the Projects and Experiments Safety Support activity of the HSE-OHS group for CERN projects follow-up, by coordinating internally the contributions of different Safety specialists.
• Also, check the conformity to Safety requirements of engineering and tendering specifications.
• Design and deliver Safety training related to fire safety.
• Furthermore, write CERN Safety documentation including rules, instructions, and guidelines.

Requirements 

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Fire Safety Engineering or a related field. In addition to that, professional certification in the field of fire safety is an asset.
• Demonstrated experience in the application of performance-based fire safety design. Also, experience in the application of fire risk assessment methodologies and tools such as fire simulation software.