Job Description

Your responsibilities

As an Electrical Engineer within the Cabling Section in the Engineer Department (EN), you’ll play a key role in expanding, strengthening, and maintaining CERN’s signal and power cable installations, required for various systems within the CERN accelerators. As part of your duties, you will be actively involved in the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project, which requires the installation of over 1,200 km of signal cables in the next three years. You will work closely with equipment experts and take part in technical discussions to ensure the optimal design of the cabling systems.

You responsibilities will be to:

• Analyse requests for new signal and power cables and modification to existing ones;
• Participate to site surveys to assess installation conditions;
• Conduct technical studies, including the definition of cable routes (considering cable trays occupancy, EMC, and safety rules), and verification of the compatibility between cables and connectors;
• Design patch panels to segment cable installations, particularly for areas requiring periodic replacement due to radiation exposure or to facilitate execution;
• Prepare execution documentation (cable lists, material lists, planning, risk assessments, etc.) for CERN’s installation contractors;
• Organize, supervise and ensure safety on your worksites, requiring interactions with contractors and CERN users from other groups/departments;
• Develop, structure, and oversee project documentation, including progress reports, design reports, spending profiles, and schedules;
• Review, write, and enhance procedures for connector assembly on cables, as well as testing and installation processes.

Your profile

Skills

• Experience in managing electrical infrastructure projects;
• Significant experience in designing and installing signal and power cables, along with their associated connectors;
• Excellent team-working attitude;
• Fluent in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Electrical Engineering (or a related field) and have either:
  • a Master’s degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;
  • or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 08.04.2025 at 23:59 CEST.

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-June-2025 (an earlier start date could be possible)

This position involves:

• Work in Radiation Areas.
• Interventions in underground installations.
• A valid driving licence.
• Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.
• Operations on electrical installations or in their vicinity (over 1000 Volt AC or 1500 Volt DC) requiring a specific authorization.

Given the occupational health risks associated with this position, the selected candidate must obtain medical clearance before a contract offer is confirmed.

Job reference: EN-EL-CS-2025-43-GRAP

Field of work: Electrical or Electronics Engineering

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6287 and 6911 Swiss Francs per month (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter – fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

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