Target Materials Engineer
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About this role
What you'll do
Are you a skilled and highly motivated mechanical engineer? Would you like to contribute to the forefront of nuclear science and to the fight against cancer by supporting the production of the rarest nuclei and radionuclides for medical research?
Responsibilities
- Are you a skilled and highly motivated mechanical engineer? Would you like to contribute to the forefront of nuclear science and to the fight against cancer by supporting the production of the rarest nuclei and radionuclides for medical research?
- Join the multidisciplinary target and radioactive beam production team, which applies cutting edge mass separation techniques to produce high purity radioactive ion beams for fundamental science, nuclear physics and medical research. You will operate these systems and lead their further development, enabling the production of innovative target materials and the delivery of radioactive ion beams.
- Your responsibilities
- Design, operate, maintain, and improve mechanical systems and target materials for radioactive ion beam production at CERN-MEDICIS and ISOLDE.
- Support reliable operation of CERN-MEDICIS isotope separators, mass separators, and associated infrastructure.
- Ensure safe, compliant operation of laboratory installations (e.g. glove boxes, fume hoods, hot cells) and handling unsealed radioactive materials according to radiation protection requirements.
- Lead the CERN-MEDICIS planning, documentation, monitoring, and optimisation of production activities and workflows.
- Support nanomaterials laboratory activities and materials development, particularly in nuclear nanomaterials.
- Coordinate key steps of the medical isotope production process, from target preparation to quality control and shipment.
- Your profile
- Proven experience with handling unsealed radioactive materials in controlled laboratory environments.
- Quality assurance and control, system validation, project planning, risk assessment, and technical reporting.
- Materials development (e.g. nanomaterials), including safe handling practices.
- Developing and documenting procedures, protocols, and safety measures.
- Operating complex scientific equipment (e.g. mass spectrometers).
- Relevant experience from research, industry, or other regulated environm