Your responsibilities

Our Engineering Department (EN) is looking for a Mechanical Engineer or an Engineer from a related field, to join our Accelerators, Coordination, and Engineering (ACE) Group, within the Configuration and Layouts Section. You will work as a Configuration Manager Support for the FCC Study.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Definition of naming convention for equipment types, engineering drawings, physical equipment and layout components.
• Registration and maintenance of codes in our Naming Portal for design offices and integration team, as needed.
• Definition and creation of conceptual beamlines regions, functional positions of optics and mechanical equipment in our Layout Database.
• Management of the Hardware Baseline structure (Product Breakdown Structure) and associated technical documentation in our Engineering Data Management Service (EDMS).
• Implementation of change control processes.
• Maintenance and updating of data and records to ensure accurate versioning.
• Provide programming support in designing, coding, and testing features for a Digital Mock-Up (DMU) application and automated 3D and 2D Drawing generation of slices of the beam lines.

Your profile

Skills:

• Knowledge of configuration management practices.
• Ability to use CAD software, such as AutoCAD and/or CATIAv5.
• Working with Microsoft Office tools or similar.
• Advanced programming capabilities in Python, JavaScript, or Java.
• Understanding of relation databases (e.g. Oracle) would be an asset.
• Communication skills.
• Spoken and written English or French, with a commitment to learn the basics of the other language.

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: 18.08.2025 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/October-2025

This position involves:

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

Job reference: EN-ACE-CL-2025-125-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.