Come join our team at Jefferson Lab, where great minds matter.
Posting Date: 07/12/24
Salary Range: $55,600 - $87,900 (Tech-II)
Work Location Type: Dedicated On-site (working 100% on-site)
What your job will be like:
As an Electronics Technician for our Cryogenic Group at Jefferson Lab, you will maintain highly complex electrical or electronic equipment, structures, components, or portions of systems and modifying existing designs to develop or improve performance and facilitate operations. Perform maintenance and repair of cryogenic electrical and electronic equipment, instrumentation, and controls within cryogenics operations. Provide technical support for modification and/or installation projects and update "as built" drawings and other documentation.
In this role you will:
- Install, maintain and repair medium and low voltage cryogenic electrical equipment, wiring and conduits, control systems, electric and pneumatic valves
- Update “as built” electrical and mechanical drawings where applicable
- Perform various tasks such as: sensor calibration, wiring repairs, troubleshooting of control systems and electronics, installation of electrical motors
- Responsible for documenting work in operations logbooks, maintenance records, “as built” drawings and any other forms as required by management
- Support operations as a cryogenic coordinator on-call and respond to after-hours operational emergencies
- May be starting/stopping machinery, performing system monitoring, and receiving gas deliveries.
QUALIFICATIONS
- High School Diploma
- 5 years relevant experience
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of proper use of hand and power tools
- Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings, P&I diagrams and machinery manuals.
- Knowledge of safe and proper use of electrical diagnostics equipment such as multimeters, meggers, etc.
- Experience making basic measurements with a multimeter to include but not limited to AC and DC voltages and DC current.
- Some soldering experience with wires and electronic components
About Jefferson Lab
Join a community with a common purpose of solving the most challenging scientific and engineering problems of our time. The Jefferson Lab campus is located in southeastern Virginia amidst a vibrant and growing technology community. A career at Jefferson Lab is more than a job. You will be part of “big science” and work alongside top scientists and engineers from around the world unlocking the secrets of our visible universe. Managed by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is entering an exciting period of mission growth and is seeking new team members ready to apply their skills and passion to have an impact. You could call it work, or you could call it a mission. We call it a challenge. We do things that will change the world.
Total Rewards at Jefferson Lab
At Jefferson Lab, we believe that a comprehensive employee benefits program is an important and meaningful part of the compensation employees receive. Our benefits program includes, but is not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Care Plans
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid Time-off and Leave Programs (vacation, holidays, sick leave)
- 401(k) Plan – 9% Lab Contribution; 100% vested
- Flexible Work Arrangements (Hybrid & Alternate Work Schedules available)
- Tuition Assistance, Training and Professional Development Programs
- Live near the waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region with access to nearby beaches, mountains, and all major metropolitan centers on the East Coast
Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (JSA) manages and operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). JSA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, or veteran status or on any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. As part of the JSA’s equal employment opportunity policy, we also take affirmative action as called for by applicable laws and Executive Orders to ensure that minority group individuals, females, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, other protected veterans, Armed Forces, and qualified disabled persons are introduced into our workforce and considered for promotional opportunities.
JSA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities (unless doing so will result in an undue hardship). If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruiting @ jlab.org or call (757) 269-7100 to provide the nature of your request. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case-by-case basis.
Employment with JSA is conditional upon DOE approval if at any time during your employment you are participating in a Foreign Government Talent Recruitment Program or Affiliated activity. Generally, such programs/activities include any foreign-state-sponsored attempt to acquire U.S.-funded scientific research through programs run or funded by the government that target scientists, engineers, students, academics, researchers, and entrepreneurs of all nationalities working or educated in the United States. This includes positions or appointments, both domestic and foreign, titled academic, professional, or institutional.
