What you'll do
Join the Cooling and Ventilation developers team within CERN's Engineering Department (EN), where you will contribute to the development, commissioning, and maintenance of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and automation solutions essential to the operation of CERN's accelerators, detectors, and infrastructure.
As part of a multidisciplinary team of technicians and engineers, you will be involved in the specification, design, commissioning, and maintenance of a wide range of ICS dedicated to cooling and ventilation plants for accelerator facilities, experimental areas, and technical infrastructure.
This position offers the opportunity to work on large-scale industrial installations in a highly technical and collaborative environment.
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Ideal start date: 01/10/2026
Contract duration (in months): 24
Job flexibility: Hybrid
Employment conditions
Join the Cooling and Ventilation developers team within CERN's Engineering Department (EN), where you will contribute to the development, commissioning, and maintenance of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and automation solutions essential to the operation of CERN's accelerators, detectors, and infrastructure.
As part of a multidisciplinary team of technicians and engineers, you will be involved in the specification, design, commissioning, and maintenance of a wide range of ICS dedicated to cooling and ventilation plants for accelerator facilities, experimental areas, and technical infrastructure.
This position offers the opportunity to work on large-scale industrial installations in a highly technical and collaborative environment.
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Your responsibilities
- Gather control system requirements and compile all relevant technical documentation.
- Design automation solutions and control systems for Industrial ventilation and cooling plants.
- Develop and implement PLC applications for ICS.
- Define and execute tests of ICS on simulators.
- Perform on-site commissioning of ICS.
- Design, implement, and deploy improvements and corrective actions for operational control systems.
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- Proven experience in Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) programming.
- Good knowledge of PLC development based on the IEC 61131 standard.
- Initial experience in Python programming or other high-level programming languages.
- Ability to read and work with electrical schematics.
- Initial experience in the configuration, programming, and operation of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems.
- Understanding of industrial automation principles and control systems.
- Experience with SCADA systems in an industrial environment is considered an advantage.
- Knowledge of automation theory and industrial process control is considered an advantage.
- Your studies focused on Automation and Controls.
Your skills
- PLC programming using SIEMENS Step7, TIA Portal and/or Schneider Control Expert.
- High-level programming languages (e.g. Python).
- Version control software systems (e.g. Git).
- Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.
Ideal start date: 01/10/2026
Contract duration (in months): 24
Job flexibility: Hybrid
Employment conditions
- A valid driving licence.
- Work in Radiation Areas.
- Interventions in underground installations.
