Mechanical Engineer (BE-EA-EC-2025-78-GRAE)

Job Description

Your responsibilities

The Beams department, responsible for the beam generation, acceleration, diagnostics, controls and performance optimization for the LHC and its injector accelerators.

The Experiments Area Group, which looks after the secondary beamlines, infrastructure, and management of the fixed target CERN experimental areas, provides support to LHC experiments and machine detector interfaces (MDI), offering associated engineering support and specific technical services necessary for all experiments, related projects, and users.

You will join a team that provides Engineering expertise and Operation Support for CERN's Fixed Target Experimental Areas as well as for related projects and studies.

You will contribute to the North Area Consolidation Project, in particular:

• You will carry studies using FEM analysis for beamline intercepting devices.
• You will produce high quality and detailed engineering models using CAD tools.
• You will follow and document qualification and acceptance tests of prototypes.
• You are interested in follow up of procurement and manufacturing mechanical systems.

Your profile

Skills

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• A very good knowledge and experience of CAD tools, preferably CATIA.
• A very good knowledge and experience of FEM tools, preferably ANSYS.
• Highly effective in organization abilities as well as written and verbal communication.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

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 Mechanical 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: 01.07.2025 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-September-2025

This position involves:

• Work in Radiation Areas.
• Interventions in underground installations.

Job reference: BE-EA-EC-2025-78-GRAE

Field of work: Mechanical 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.