he Safety and Radiation Protection Group at European XFEL is looking for a proactive and communicative specialist to strengthen occupational safety processes and actively contribute to the development of a positive safety culture across the company.

The successful candidate will support and further develop risk assessment processes, contribute to occupational safety and fire protection topics, and design initiatives that strengthen safety awareness, learning culture, and management engagement. We are looking for someone who enjoys working with people, builds trust across different groups, challenges existing practices constructively, facilitates discussions, and turns ideas into practical improvements. The role is suited to a person who is interested not only in rules and compliance, but also in making safety part of daily leadership, communication, and decision-making.

The Position

• Develop and implement initiatives that strengthen safety culture, awareness, and learning from incidents and near misses
• Help develop practical and accepted safety solutions in a complex scientific environment
• Promote practical safety solutions together with staff, collaborators, users, and technical groups
• Design and facilitate safety trainings, workshops, discussions, and awareness formats for different target groups
• Improve occupational safety processes, especially risk assessments and their follow-up
• Evaluate options to improve risk assessment workflows, including possible software solutions
• Support operational fire protection topics in cooperation with the Fire Protection Officer