Project Support Officer for Einstein Telescope Organisation (ETO) (EN-ACE-OSSGRAP)
Project Support Officer for Einstein Telescope Organisation (ETO) (EN-ACE-OSSGRAP)
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Job Description
Your responsibilities
You will serve as an Organisation and Scheduling Support Project Officer in the Engineering Department (EN) within the Accelerators Coordination and Engineering Group in the Organisation Scheduling & Support Section. You will play a key role in the drafting of the technical design report and in the coordination of the collaboration agreement with the Einstein Telescope Organisation (ETO).
The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed underground facility for a third-generation gravitational-wave observatory. Building on the success of Advanced Virgo and Advanced LIGO which detected merging black holes and neutron stars ET will have much higher sensitivity. ET will enable exploration of the Universes gravitational waves back to the cosmological dark ages offering insights into fundamental physics and cosmology.
Your responsibilities will include close collaboration with stakeholders involved in the design installation and operation of the facility and its technical infrastructure.
Specifically you will:
- Support the collaboration agreement technical coordinators to manage the various related activities especially the interfaces between stakeholders.
- Support the definition of schedules from the system level to the master schedule enabling strategic planning.
- Understand analyse and schedule installation activities to propose an optimal sequence including logistics and safety compliance related to potential co-activities by collaborating with relevant safety stakeholders.
- Adapt and apply CERN methodology and experience.
- Support the definition of the necessary reference technical documentation and the editing of the schedule management plan identifying processes procedures and roles.
- Define how to implement schedule analysis techniques when necessary like PERT (Programme Evaluation and Review Technique) or RBSA (Risk-Based Schedule Analysis).
- Define procedures as far as the schedule is concerned for the Earned Value Management application.
- Prepare documentation and facilitate communication between stakeholders ensuring clear and efficient collaboration.
- Introduce correct schedule performance metrics (schedule variance KPI performance index % completion etc).
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Skills:
- Demonstrated understanding of technical challenges and project management.
- Experience in project coordination planning or technical project support.
- Organisational scheduling and analytical skills.
- Experience in working with project planning tools and data analysis (e.g. MS Project Oracle database management VBA Python etc).
- Strong communication skills.
- Stakeholders management in an international environment.
- Spoken and written English with a commitment to learn French.
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 Masters 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.
To apply please upload a copy of your CV as well reference letter(s) if available.
Additional Information :
Job closing date: 03.08.2025 at 23:59 CEST.
Contract duration: 24 months with a possible extension up to 30 months maximum.
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Target start date: 01-October-2025
This position involves:
- Work in Radiation Areas.
- Interventions in underground installations.
- A valid driving licence.
Job reference: EN-ACE-OSSGRAP
Field of work: Mechanical Engineering
What we offer
- A monthly stipend ranging between 6287 and 6911 Swiss Francs per month (net of tax).
- Coverage by CERNs 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 worlds 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 .
We are on a Quest. A Journey into discovery like no other. Bring your expertise to our unique work and develop your knowledge and skills at pace. Join world-class subject matter experts on unique projects in a Quest for greater knowledge and deeper understanding.
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