Applied Physicist – ATLAS Muon LS3 Integration and Installation Manager

As ATLAS Muon LS3 Integration and Installation Manager, you will coordinate and oversee the integration and installation activities of the ATLAS Muon detector upgrades during Long Shutdown 3 (LS3). You will ensure effective coordination across all Muon sub-projects, monitor progress, manage risks, and serve as the primary interface between Muon projects and ATLAS Technical Coordination.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective coordination of installation and integration activities across the Muon projects, tracking progress, identifying risks, and ensuring effective communication among all participating teams.
• Act as the liaison between the various Muon sub-projects and ATLAS Technical Coordination, providing regular status updates and comprehensive documentation.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor the integrated LS3 schedule for Muon installation, integration, and maintenance activities in close collaboration with ATLAS Technical Coordination team.
• Coordinate and oversee technical activities on the ATLAS Muon detectors in the UX15 cavern.
• Identify, manage, and resolve interface issues, schedule conflicts, and resource constraints across multiple projects and teams.
• Organise and chair regular ATLAS Muon LS3 coordination meetings, collect status information, and maintain an overview of ongoing and planned activities.
• Support Muon detector teams in coordinating LS3 activities to ensure timely delivery and efficient planning.
• Prepare and maintain comprehensive documentation, progress reports, and activity summaries.

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Physics or a related field.
• Proven experience in coordinating activities for large-scale detector systems or comparable complex scientific installations.
• Demonstrated experience in planning and managing work programs involving multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating complex technical projects, managing competing priorities, and resolving planning, scheduling, and resource constraints in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Experience with safety systems and safety-related technical infrastructure.
• Familiarity with installation, integration, commissioning, or maintenance activities in large scientific facilities is considered an asset.
• Assembly and integration of detectors.
• Knowledge and application of gas based particle detection technologies.
• Testing and validation of detector, accelerator and beam line components.
• Assembly and integration of infrastructure for detectors or experimental facilities.
• Organisation, planning and control.
• Team management.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.
• A valid driving licence.
• Ability to work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.
• Medical clearance required due to exposure to electromagnetic fields and work in radiation areas and underground installations.

Skills

• Large-scale detector coordination
• Technical Project Management
• Work program planning
• Multidisciplinary resource management
• Safety Systems Maintenance
• Installation and integration
• Detector Assembly
• Gas particle detection technologies
• Testing and Validation
• Accelerator component testing
• Beam line component testing
• Infrastructure integration
• Team Management
• English Language Proficiency
• Driving License
• Radiation Safety
• Electromagnetic field safety
• Planning and organisation

Languages

English, French