Job Description

Your responsibilities

As an Organization & Scheduling Support in the Engineering Department (EN), within the Accelerators, Coordination, and Engineering Group, and part of the Organization, Scheduling & Support Section, you play a key role in scheduling and coordinating installation activities for the LHC Machine. For example, focusing on the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) project. The HL-LHC project aims to crank up the performance of the LHC in order to increase the potential for discoveries after 2030.

Your responsibilities involve close collaboration with stakeholders, including the Beams, Physics, General Services, and Technology departments, as well as various groups within the Engineering Department itself.

In collaboration with the different stakeholders, you will:

• Schedule and coordinate all installation and maintenance activities for various accelerators, ensuring adherence to the overall schedule.
• Collaborate on and support major projects (e.g. HL-LHC), from equipment production to installation, ensuring smooth execution and alignment with project milestones.
• Manage and monitor schedules, ensuring resource availability and identifying deviations to mitigate potential delays.
• Support production planning, optimizing workflows, and coordinating between different project phases.
• Prepare documentation and facilitate communication between stakeholders, ensuring clear and efficient collaboration.
• Handle operational disruptions, minimizing delays to installation schedules.
• Manage co-activities by collaborating with Groups, Stakeholders and Project Representatives to maintain schedule integrity.
• Manage co-activities to ensure safety compliance by working with the Safety Coordinator to address risks and enforce relevant procedures.

Your profile

Skills/Experience/Knowledge in:

• Project management and coordination;
• Organisation, scheduling, and control processes;
• Working with project planning tools;
• Communication skills;
• Demonstrated experience in stakeholder management;
• Spoken and written English or French, with a commitment to learn the other language.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in 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: 21.04.2025 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

This position involves:

• Work in Radiation Areas.
• Interventions in underground installations.
• A valid driving licence.

Job reference: EN-ACE-OSS-2025-51-GRAP

Field of work: 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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