Research Engineer to Beamline Office, 1 year

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has around 44 000 students and more than 8 000 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.


Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.




Your team
The Beamline Office is a group within the Science Division at MAX IV that consists of three teams that address different tasks and responsibilities.

This temporary position is in the coordinators team that primarily focus on organizing support to the beamlines in project management, beamline installation and maintenance.



Would you like to work at the brightest lightsource in the world?



MAX IV are looking for  a versatile Research Engineer that can support various activities on the beamlines.



Your main work tasks will be

- Coordination of activities and projects between the different beamlines and technical support groups within the MAX IV laboratory.
- Direct support to beamlines in technical questions concerning service, installations and maintenance.
- Contribute to the implementation of the new maintenance management software tool.

To be successful in this role you need to have the following qualifications

- You have an engineering background and a bachelor or masters degree in industrial equipment, mechanics, maintenance or similar.
- You have a good general technical understanding and a relevant knowledge of complex instrumentation.
- You are used to communicate with scientific and technical personnel keeping always an overview of the wider facility demands and deadlines.
- You have some project management experience.
- You are good at and have experience in collecting and compiling information in a structured way, e.g. lists of equipment, inventories.
- You communicate without any hindrance in English, both written and spoken

Below are seen as merits

- Any experience of beamline related support and infrastructure systems. (e.g. vacuum, cryogenics, ventilation, gases, cooling water, PLC and motion control.).
- It is an advantage if you have mechanical design and drafting experience.
- Experience in assets management, focused in software tools and maintenance processes.
- Experience working at synchrotron or any other light source facility. e.g. as a research engineer on one, or preferably several beamlines or central support groups.

As a person you are outgoing, convincing and someone who pays attention to details. In addition, you enjoy interacting and collaborating with people from different groups in order to provide excellent service. You are structured and able to establish new routines and procedures when needed. You enjoy being present on the experimental hall floor and at the beamlines and you are excited about not knowing which challenges the day might bring. You like finding solutions where there are no established routines yet.  


What we offer
When you join our MAX IV family, you step into a world of front edge science. We make the invisible visible by supporting scientist from all over the world, generating scientific results for the benefit of society. We offer you a multicultural work environment with great opportunities for personal development with respect for a healthy work-life balance.

Would you like to work in a challenging and supporting environment? Then join us and take the opportunity to make a real difference!

For further information, please visit:
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-lund-university/work-lund-university
https://sweden.se
https://www.maxiv.lu.se/about-us/careerjobs/comp_and_benefits/

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MAX IV is a Swedish national large-scale research laboratory hosted by Lund University. It provides scientists from Sweden as well as internationally, with state-of-the-art instrumentation for research in areas such as engineering, physics, structural biology, chemistry and nanotechnology. Fully developed it will receive more than 2 000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-ray light.

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