Occupational Safety and Safety Culture Specialist (f/m/d)

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

Requirements

• Completed degree and professional experience in at least one of the following fields: occupational safety, fire protection, safety engineering, natural sciences, engineering, human factors, organizational development, or a related discipline
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to engage different target groups
• Sound understanding of occupational safety principles and risk assessment processes
• Strong interest in safety culture, communication, learning culture, and organizational change
• Proactive, pragmatic, and implementation-oriented working style
• Ability to understand complex scientific or technical environments and translate safety requirements into practical solutions
• Very good command of English; German language skills are an advantage

• Experience in a scientific, research, laboratory, high-tech, or R&D environment
• Experience with safety culture initiatives, workshops, awareness campaigns, or leadership engagement
• Knowledge of fire protection topics or willingness to develop further in this area
• Interest in digital tools and modern software-supported approaches to occupational safety and risk assessment

Our offer

• A family-friendly working environment (e.g. additional childcare days)
• Flexible working hours and options to work from home (depending on your role and tasks)
• 30 days of paid vacation, plus December 24th and 31st off (granted by the employer)

• Transparent compensation aligned with public service organizations in Germany
• Salary range: min. 11/1 with 4,269.64€ - max. 13/6 with €7025,87, the actual level is defined by the individual work experience, here is the link to the current valid
• Depending on the pay group, we offer an annual special payment of 75-90% of one month’s salary.
• Partially funded public transportation Deutschlandticket
• Generous company pension scheme (6.45% of your monthly salary)

• Extensive relocation benefits to help you settle in smoothly
• English as company language, enabling easy collaboration in our international environment

• Extensive training opportunities, including subsidized English and German language courses
• Subsidized sports membership with access to over 7,000 sport clubs
• Monthly social events and company restaurant with employee discounts
• Free access to a professional mental health support platform