Research Technician jobs in Addison, IL

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Fermilab is America's premier laboratory for particle physics and accelerator research, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. We support discovery science experiments in Illinois and at locations around the world, including deep underground mines in South Dakota and Canada, mountaintops in Arizona and Chile, CERN in Europe and the South Pole.

We are strategic risk takers, innovators, and collaborators. We are engineers, scientists, technicians, administrative professionals. We are 1,800 employees advancing knowledge for the benefit of humankind. Fermilab has been at the forefront of particle physics for more than 40 years. We build world-leading accelerators and detectors to conduct some of the most advanced particle physics experiments possible. We collect and analyze the data from those experiments with some of the most powerful computers in the world. We conduct this research on a 6,800-acre prairie, 35 miles outside Chicago, a treasure that has been designated a National Environmental Research Park.

Job Description Summary

SRF Mechanical Technician II required to support SRF cavity processing, processing facility maintenance, ultra high vacuum system operation and maintenance, cleanroom infrastructure operation, and SRF component assembly.

Under general supervision and based on journeyman-level expertise, general experience, and/or academic study, provides moderately complex technical support for an area of assignment, typically an experimental or support group. Depending on the area of assignment, fabricates, sets-up, calibrates, operates, tests, repairs, and modifies a variety of moderately complex electrical-electronic and/or mechanical equipment, systems and devices.

Job Description

-PFFA work in MP9 Cleanroom, CPL, SCSPF

- Operation of ultra high vacuum high temperature ovens and thin film coating chambers

- SRF device assembly in ISO Class 4 cleanroom environment

- Chemical (acids/bases) handling and SRF cavity processing

- Ultra high vacuum system operation and maintenance

-Work within scientific, engineering, and technical team on SRF research and development and production activities.

Education

High School diploma and 2 years of related experience

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