Job Description

Your responsibilities

You will be an Organization & Scheduling Support in the Engineering Department (EN), within the Accelerators, Coordination, and Engineering Group, within the Organization, Scheduling & Support Section. You play a key role in planning and coordinating installation activities for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Machine. Specifically, focusing on High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). 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 will 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:

• Collaborate on and support the major project 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.
• Ensure safety compliance by working with the Safety Coordinator to address risks and enforce relevant procedures.

Your profile

The desired skills/experience/knowledge for this support activity are:

• Project management and coordination;
• Organization, scheduling, and control processes;
• Working with project planning tools (i.e. MS Project);
• Communication skills;
• Stakeholder management;
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Training for will be provided for skills or experience not yet acquired.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Engineering (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
• Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.

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.
• Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.

Job reference: EN-ACE-OSS-2025-59-GRAE

Field of work: Engineering

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5196 and 5716 Swiss Francs (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.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN’s mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.