Process Engineer

Your responsibilities

As a Process Engineer you will join the team in charge of the design and construction of a new facility dedicated to the development and production of superconducting radio-frequency components. In this role, you will conduct the design of fully automated ultra-pure water generators, high-pressure rinsing and vacuum drying systems operating in cleanroom environment.

For this purpose you will:

• Collect and analyze the user's requirements for a given equipment;
• Provide the conceptual design and costing of the equipment to be built or upgraded, based on existing industrial solutions adapted to the operation in clean environment;
• Define the process controls, supervision and data acquisition required for the operation and monitoring;
• Elaborate the technical specifications in order to outsource the manufacturing of the equipment in industry;
• Follow-up at CERN and in industry the design, manufacturing, testing, installation and commissioning of the equipment.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Experience in designing process equipment for fluids, preferably for pharmaceutical or semiconductors applications;
• Sound knowledge of process controls and automation;
• Good knowledge of PLC programming and development of SCADA and HMI interfaces;
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities;
• Being able to work both independently and within a multidisciplinary team;
• 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 Electromechanical or Process 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.