Deputy Safety Manager

The Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is seeking a Deputy Safety Manager to help lead safety programs supporting world-class scientific research. This is a unique opportunity to provide leadership during an exciting period of transformation as the ALS continues its scientific mission while advancing the major ALS-U upgrade.

Working closely with the ALS Safety Manager, you will lead the User Safety Program, supervise and develop safety professionals, and provide technical leadership across experimental, operational, particle accelerator, and construction safety activities. You'll play a key role in balancing the demands of ongoing research with a complex facility upgrade, helping scientists, engineers, and technical teams work safely in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

The Advanced Light Source is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user facility that produces exceptionally bright soft and hard x-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared light. With a strong scientific reputation, expert staff, and advanced capabilities. The ALS attracts thousands of academic and industrial users each year in condensed matter and quantum materials, energy sciences, biosciences, earth and planetary sciences and more.

The ALS is one of five Berkeley Lab user facilities that serve 15,000 users annually. Co-located with the Molecular Foundry, NERSC supercomputing center, and Berkeley Lab's materials, chemical sciences, biosciences, and other divisions, it provides an ideal collaborative environment for innovative scientific discoveries.

The ALS is a global leader in soft x-ray science, and aims to maintain its leadership with ALS-U, a major project to upgrade the facility to a fourth-generation light source. This upgrade is fully funded and in the execution phase and will position the facility among the brightest soft x-ray light sources in the world, offering capabilities that no other facility can provide.

• Serve as Deputy to the ALS Safety Manager, supporting the leadership and oversight of ALS safety programs, establishing priorities, coordinating team activities, and addressing emerging issues. Act on behalf of the ALS Safety Manager during their absence, providing leadership, making operational decisions within delegated authority, and ensuring continuity of safety programs and operations.
• Lead and continuously improve the ALS User Safety Program, supervising staff and coordinating user, biological, and chemical safety activities, including experimental safety reviews, hazard assessments, work authorization, and readiness for safe operations.
• Mentor, and develop safety professionals and technical staff, fostering a collaborative, accountable, and service-oriented team.
• Support the ALS Safety Manager in leading and improving Work Planning & Control, including hazard analysis, work-document reviews, authorization, readiness assessments, field verification, and program effectiveness.

• Oversee the review and authorization of proposed user experiments, including hazard identification, risk assessment, coordination of appropriate technical reviews, establishment of controls, documentation of approvals, and verification of readiness for work.
• Provide technical leadership and field support for particle accelerator operations, construction, maintenance, and ALS/ALS-U projects, independently managing assigned safety activities and coordinating contractor oversight, hazard controls, and operational readiness.
• Support contractor and subcontractor safety through work planning, hazard controls, field oversight, and resolution of safety concerns.
• Provide industrial hygiene and occupational safety expertise, including determining the need for exposure assessment and monitoring, evaluation of chemical and physical hazards, need for respiratory protection, personal protective equipment, and conditions requiring ergonomic evaluations.
• Support the preparation and participation of ALS and ALS-U Safety reviews, including ALS-U readiness reviews.
• Interpret and apply Berkeley Lab, ALS, DOE, OSHA, ANSI, and other applicable safety requirements, translating them into practical, risk-informed controls that support safe scientific operations.

• Partner with scientists, engineers, research users, project teams, craftspeople, contractors, and EHS professionals to integrate safety…