Civil Engineer for Tunnel Monitoring (SCE-SAM-FS-2025-18-GRAP)

Job Description

Your responsibilities

Join us as a Civil Engineer for Tunnel Monitoring, leading an exciting project within the Tunnel Asset Management (TAM) unit, focusing on the management, monitoring, and future development of our tunnel infrastructure.

Main responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring all underground civil engineering assets.
• Arranging inspections for all assets during the next major machine stop in 2026-2027.
• Installation and analysis of fibre optic sensors in areas of the underground experiencing movements.
• Employing external contractors to gather TAM data.
• Collaborating with the CERN robotics team to collect TAM data.
• Assisting and supervising a PhD student on TAM-related research projects such as tunnel defect detection (photogrammetry), fibre optic monitoring, etc. This will include gathering data to support their studies during short and long shutdowns, coordinating progress meetings with their professor, and reviewing/publishing papers.
• Collaborating with the CERN survey team on TAM matters.
• Ensuring all TAM inspection reports and monitoring data are stored on appropriate GIS platforms and CERN's document database (EDMS).
• Collaborating with outside companies/organizations to investigate monitoring devices for CERN tunnels, submitting papers, and attending conferences.
• Planning and organizing an International TAM Workshop in the future.
• Analyzing and interpreting monitoring data, making recommendations for CERN's future tunnel projects.
• Reporting all results/progress regularly to SCE management.
• This role includes team supervision responsibilities.

Your profile

Skills

• Civil Engineering
• 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 Civil 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.

Additional Information

Job closing date: March, 2nd 2025 at 23:59 CET.

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: SCE-SAM-FS-2025-18-GRAP

Field of work: Civil Engineering

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6287 and 6911 Swiss Francs per month (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.

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