Overview
Are you an experienced and capable safety professional, or someone with comparable experience who would relish the opportunity to influence health and safety culture whilst at the same time supporting and enabling cutting edge research? If you are, we would love to hear from you.
We need a Safety Officer to support the Faculty of Science and Engineering. You will provide essential specialist safety support, interpret legislation and provide working solutions to ensure compliance and help to maintain a safe working environment for staff, students, visitors and contractors. Using a sound understanding of both safety and laboratory and/or workshop activities, you will work to implement policy and provide in person support directly within office, laboratory and workshop spaces. The role will involve working in partnership with both Faculty and School staff as well as Safety and Health service.
Responsibilities
* Provide advice, guidance and operational support.
* Write and maintain safety policies, procedures and protocols in accordance with legislation and University policy.
* Create and maintain accurate safety records for auditing purposes and prepare safety reports.
* Operate, service, maintain and calibrate specialist safety equipment.
* Analyse safety issues to find short and long-term solutions and investigate incidents.
* Prepare generic risk assessments and method statements/standard operating procedures (SOPs), in line with specialist knowledge.
* Training others in safety processes and procedures e.g. risk assessment training and implementation.
Qualifications
* Have extensive experience of health and safety (in laboratory and/or workshop environments).
* Be able to develop strong working relationships with colleagues (staff and students) to enable sensible and achievable solutions.
* Be committed to providing a quality, high-precision and efficient support service across the faculty.
Additional information
* Contract type: Fixed term 1.0 FTE for 8 months as maternity cover or earlier return of post-holder: asap - 11/05/2026.
* Interviews are anticipated to take place the week of the 29th September 2025.
* For informal queries please contact Julie Etches (j.etches@bristol.ac.uk).
* Salary: £35,608 to £39,906. Grade H, per annum.
Available documents
* Science Engineering Further Particulars 2024-2025.pdf
* SUPP112715 - Safety Officer (FSE - Chem and Workshop) - JD (1).pdf
Our strategy and mission
We recently launched our strategy to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.
The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential.
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