Technical Specialist - Health and Safety Operations

Are you passionate about creating safer, smarter and more effective scientific working environments? Bringing together your technical expertise and cross-disciplinary scientific knowledge, you’ll lead initiatives that strengthen compliance, champion continuous improvement and enhance the safety and effectiveness of our laboratories and workshops. From delivering expert advice, training and guidance to overseeing comprehensive compliance audits, you’ll help ensure our facilities meet the highest standards of safety and operational excellence.

Working collaboratively with the School Safety Officer and School Technical Manager, you’ll identify and mitigate risks, improve infrastructure and shape safer working practices across the School.

We’re looking for an experienced health and safety professional with a proven track record of putting best practice into action, influencing others and driving meaningful change. With your ability to develop and implement policies, engage colleagues and inspire a positive safety culture, you’ll help shape the future of health and safety operations.

Ready to turn your expertise into real impact? Join us and help create a safer, more innovative environment where scientific discovery can thrive.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

Find out more at sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/benefits and join us to become part of something special.

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