Mechanical Technician

What you'll do

You will participate in interventions and troubleshooting mechanical issues and coordinating maintenance, installation and logistics activities initially during our next long shutdown to keep CERN’s fixed target areas and associated beam-line facilities running safely and efficiently.

You will join the The Experimental Areas Group within the Beams Department (BE-EA)

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Your responsibilities

Take part in the maintenance, installation, and improvement of mechanical systems in experimental and beam-line areas.
Participate in fault-finding and elaborating repair solutions together with engineers and other team members.
Contribute to assembling, testing, installing and commissioning of beam-line mechanical components (e.g. collimators, intercepting devices, supports).
Support procurement and production follow-up activities, ensuring good coordination with suppliers and contractors.
Assist in the design and assembly of mechanical supports for experimental setups.
Organize and carry out logistical tasks such as preparing shielding blocks, managing storage, transport coordination, and keeping inventories up to date.
Actively participate in hands-on mechanical work, including interventions on detector systems when needed.

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Mechanical maintenance, installation, logistic and supervision of technical systems within multidisciplinary teams.
Working with high-precision mechanical devices and instrumentation.
Coordinating technical interventions while ensuring strict compliance with safety standards.
Assembly, testing, and optimisation of mechanical systems.
Documenting technical interventions and maintenance activities.
Higher technical diploma or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Mechanical or Electromechanical Engineering or a related field.

Your skills

Design and analysis of mechanical structures.
Construction, test and installation of electromechanical equipment and systems.
Knowledge and application of manufacturing methods and work preparation.
Organisation, planning and control; including the coordination of technical work.
Knowledge of design codes and compliance verification of mechanical equipment.
Builds and maintains constructive and effective work relationships.
Takes initiative beyond regular tasks and makes things happen.
Is willing to work on different projects simultaneously.
Produces workable and timely solutions that meet requirements.
Ensures that information, procedures and decisions are appropriately documented.
Spoken and written English or French, with a commitment to learn the other language.

Ideal start date: 01/03/2026

Contract duration: 60 month contract

Grade range: 3

Benchmark job: 300090 - Mechanical Technician

Job flexibility: Fully Onsite

Employment conditions

A valid driving licence.
Work in Radiation Areas.
Interventions in underground installations.
Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.

Global Benefits at CERN

A minimum entry-salary of 5850 Swiss Francs per month (tax free), increasing in line with your years of relevant experience.
30 days of paid leave per year plus 2 weeks annual closure.
Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health insurance scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
Family, child and infant monthly allowances depending on your individual circumstances.
A relocation package (installation grant, removal, travel expenses) depending on your individual circumstances.
Possibility to extend your contract up to 8 years + eligibility for indefinite contract tenure.

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Be sure to meet the eligibility criteria

You are a national of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State.
You have relevant qualifications and professional experience.
If you have previously held a Staff contract at CERN, you will not be eligible for these positions.
Please pay attention to the additional criteria and requirements for this specific position and mentioned above.

You will need these documents to complete your application

Your CV (English or French)
Any document you consider relevant to your application

Your CERNDepartment

The BE department is at the heart of CERN's accelerator complex.

It is responsible for the design, construction, and operation of accelerators and technical infrastructure that provide the cutting-edge scientific instruments needed by the physics community.

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